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An important consideration for educators, as lead learners, is to expand their understanding that learning is also about social participation and contribution. It is about identity and belonging.

The learner must be able to see themselves in the learning and want to realise this reality, otherwise they will reject it.

Relationships must be identified, agreed and understood. They must be based on agreements of what is of shared importance. Ambiguity must be identified and removed through learning conversations and knowing what it is that the learner needs us to know about them.

An important part of our work and one of the 'new' basics or foundation skills is to enable the opportunities for learners to question, think, participate, contribute and create in this space.

The following links will provide snapshots of what is happening for young people that will be of interest in your work as a lead learner, learning architect and digital change maker.

http://www.socialmedianews.com.au/social-media-statistics-australia-august-...

http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Research-snapshots...

http://about.sensis.com.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/docs/Yellow-Social-Media-R...

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21st Century Participation

Growing Participatory Culture
An important consideration for educators, as lead learners, is to expand their understanding that learning is also about social participation and contribution. It is about identity and belonging.

The learner must be able to see themselves in the learning and want to realise this reality, otherwise they will reject it.

Relationships must be identified, agreed and understood. They must be based on agreements of what is of shared importance. Ambiguity must be identified and removed through learning conversations and knowing what it is that the learner needs us to know about them.

An important part of our work and one of the 'new' basics or foundation skills is to enable the opportunities for learners to question, think, participate, contribute and create in this space.

The following links will provide snapshots of what is happening for young people that will be of interest in your work as a lead learner, learning architect and digital change maker.

http://www.socialmedianews.com.au/social-media-statistics-australia-august-...

http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/engage-blogs/engage-blogs/Research-snapshots...

http://about.sensis.com.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/docs/Yellow-Social-Media-R...
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Participation, how?

  • Affiliation, Belonging & Generosity
  • Expression & Identity
  • Collaborative problem solving & FINDING
  • Circulations
  • Prod-user
There are ways that we participate that are shared and unique.

How do you consider the following as part of your daily instructional practice and educator behaviour?

Are there questions you can ask yourself and others that will support your lead learning and consideration of these as part of your learning design work?

I have included belonging and generosity in the Affiliation space because a sense of belonging is important for wellbeing, engagement and willingness to be intellectually stretched. A sense of generosity is important because it comes from a growth-mindset in which you believe you have something to offer, to contribute and to share.

The motivational interview technique is a useful resource for exploring this area with yourself, colleagues and learners:

http://www.nova.edu/gsc/forms/mi_rationale_techniques.pdf

The inclusion of Identity is an important entry point for many in their engagement with social media. It also links to their concept of themselves and yourself as a learner.

I am thinking about the focus of problem finding as well as problem solving. The finding part is significant as a necessary, new basic for learning in a connected world. Have a model you know and use. Here is a link to one I find useful:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_10.htm

A colleague of mine makes use of a concept he has thought deeply about, Prod-users in which we consider the production and use of digital tools, spaces, processes and connections. you may be more familiar with the term prosuming:

http://sts.sagepub.com/content/13/2/259.abstract
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Affiliation, Belonging & Generosity: membership in networks, spaces, communities

Why do you have learning affiliations?

Where are the spaces you belong?

How are you generous with your learning, knowing and understanding?

Why is it important to be affiliated in digital spaces? Yourself, your peers and your learners?



Expression & Identity: producing & consuming new creative forms, think remix, mash-up, digiloguing

My fovourite space for this consideration is found here:

http://everythingisaremix.info/

Seely-Brown still captures it beautifully in this keynote:

http://vimeo.com/49645115
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Collaborative Problem Solving & Finding: teaming to compete & complete, enhance knowledge & understanding, build & connect, question & provoke

How is our learning design supportive of collaboration beyond the classroom?

Where do I find evidence of digital learning tools and approaches supporting successful collaboration?

How will the learning products be shared for further collaboration and learning, rather than being an end to themselves?

A useful and straight forward approach for progressing formative feedback as part of this process is found here:

http://resultsonlylearning.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/se2r-approach-to-narrati...

http://www.brilliant-insane.com/2014/04/se2r-feedback-forever-changes-how-t...

Competitive collaboration would mean that we would provide opportunities to...?

Circulations: shaping the flow of media, information fluency, blogging, #, memes, syndications, like, if this then that

The way we think about knowledge needs to be different and here are some global thinkers that will support you in this goal:


Weinberger: Too Big To Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zw6f4ygYGo


Kauffman

Half Life of Facts
How knowledge is different and what is consistent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMzBGdRpFY
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Prod-user: consume, produce, explore, my version, selfie, instagram, wikipedia, Scary Mary

Think about how we can support learners to produce and use in ways that differentiate, individualise and personalise their learning.

Consider design thinking and learning design.

Context is the new king, content has its place and the strategies to apply and connect to multiple context is a strength that we want to develop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer

Where good ideas come from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU&list=PLJys4H__hV3gRYpfnxMZtJkxa...

Remixing Scary Mary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
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Why is this important for contemporary learning?

How are you valiidated, challenged, concerened, motivated by these considerations?

What is missing for you?

What works for you?

Learning Conversation 1

You have 10 minutes
Organise into groups of 3

Spend:

3 minutes powerful thinking on your own
3 minutes share (1 minute each)
3 minutes question, clarify (1 minute each)

Growth Mindset
Peer to Peer learning
Consideration of Intellectual Property
Diversification of cultural expression
Development of global capabilities
Empower concepts of citizenship

Participatory culture as a framework for developing capabilities, dispositions, considerations and focus for these areas.

How confident are you that your current learning design supports focus in these areas?

What could you start doing on a daily basis to progress these?

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Do we leave this to chance through popular culture, or do we act as pedagogues and use connected learning design to harness this?

Participation as a hidden curriculum that could shape who succeeds & who fails at school has implications for pedagogy & policy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_curriculum

What opportunities do the learners you work with have to participate?

Where don't they have the opportunity to participate and how would you support this access?

Not Every Teacher is a Pedagogue link:
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/decoding-digital-pedagogy-pt-1-beyond...
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Participatory Gap: unequal access to opportunity, experience, connections

Challenge

People talk about the gaps between successful outcomes with numeracy and literacy as measured by standardised testing.

What is happening with the digital fluency gap, the ability to understand and use digital literacies in powerful ways?


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Transparency Problem: understanding how media shapes our perception of the world

Challenge

Michael Wesch

From knowledgable to knowledg-able
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8

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Ethics Challenge, breakdown, shift from traditional structures, ways & social constructs, nothing is neutral

What is gained and what is lost in a connected world?

New Basics are needed

Why do we need to have an understanding of the new basics?

What are they?
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/National_Declaration_on_the_E...

Play, as experimenting with surroundings to problem find & solve

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Performance, to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation & discovery

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Simulation, ability to interprit & construct dynamic models of real-world processes

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Appropriation, ability to meaningfully sample & remix content & context

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Focus-shifting aka Multi-tasking, scan environment & focus on salient details

Distributed Cognition, interact with tools that stretch cognition & expand

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Collective Intelligence, pool knowledge, compare notes with others for common goals

Judgement, reliability & credibility of alternative information sources

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Trans-media Navigation, ability to follow the flow across multiple modalities

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Networking, search, question, discuss, tag, synthesis, distribute, connect information

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Negotiation, ability to travel across diverse communities with discerning &respecting multiple perspectives, & grasping & following alternative norms

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Our work in supporting children & young people to participate requires your participative contribution

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Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement

Rather than deal with each tech in isolation, think ecological, inter-relational, community that grows & activities supported

Expand required competencies, not push aside old skills for new. Media fluency as a social skill. You still need to read & write.

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Are you currently training autonomous problem solvers, when collaborators are important too?

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Expanding access to new technologies takes us so far, think capabilities, dispositions & cultural knowledge necessary to deploy tools towards agreed ends

Remember CHANGE KNOWLEDGE
Why & how, this change?

Digital Pedagogy as the magic black box or blackhole?

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Participatory Culture starts & ends with you!

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Based on:
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
H Jenkins
about.me/pkcc1
@pkcc1

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Where are they participating?