My presentation/hands on session for Free ELearning Conference Appalachain State University, Boone, North Carolina July 15, 2011
Let us dig right in and get started:
Real Time Internet for Passion-Based Learning
+Jan Herder #FLC11
A MEDIA ECOSYSTEM
What does the Real Time Internet ‘Feel’ Like? How do I step in and check it out? Is there a way to manage what I am learning on line? What about the learning? I’d like to see where learning is ignited and the wealth of world information can be found. I’d like to see my students find their passion and become life long learners. How do I do this?
Yesterday an article came out (great timing for this session. )
Nine Tenets of Passion-Based Learning:
● REACH OUT TO THE DISENFRANCHISED
● SHOW RELEVANCE TO LIFE OUTSIDE SCHOOL
● INDOCTRINATE PASSION INTO THE SYSTEM.
● TRY USING THE SCHOOLWIDE ENRICHMENT MODEL
● DIGITAL MEDIA IS KEY
this one is key to my technique:
● TAP INTO THE WISDOM OF YOUR TRUSTED PEERS.
Social media and Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are necessary. Teachers need to publish their innovative work and share it with their personal learning networks. It’s also important for teachers to help students get connected to PLNs via social media.
● BECOME A DIGITAL CITIZENS
● PASSION IS INFECTIOUS
and their number 9:
● CONNECT WITH PARENTS
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/07/nine-tenets-of-passion-based-learning/
Which I would add:
● 10--FOLLOW YOUR PASSION.
A variety of strategies exist for integrating new learning paradigms: social media, the immersive internet and collaborative learning. And if you are like me it is all very overwhelming--exciting, inspired--but difficult to manage.
What I would like to share with you today is a technique I use to explore my own learning and teaching, that worked very well. This is an Informal Learning Model that seeks to ignite passion for learning. So many of our students are not connected to their learning journey, and have disassociated their passion from the classroom and the content that we offer. The element of discovery, of exploration-- of passion is missing. And yet when I immerse myself in the internet, in the web of contacts, links, thoughts and ideas I am wholly absorbed--my passions are free to explore. What an incredible opportunity as a learner to have the world’s knowledge available on line!
Let us dig right in and get started:
Go ahead and set up a http://twitter.com account if you haven’t already. Give some thought to your profile, use keywords that reflect your passions. This connects you to people who share your passions and interests.
I like the mash-up approach for an LMS, --What works in this situation; the emphasis is on the learning. I see this as an experiential, hands-on and student empowered approach to learning. By using emerging technologies we actively combine a constructivist and connectivist philosophy of learning. We construct our Personal Learning Plan by defining our streams, our networks of followers and hashtags-- by connecting ideas, people, links and actions in our learning journey, which we as learners actively pursue on line and off.
What is a #Hashtag?
The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark the keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any Twitter user can categorize or follow topics with hashtags. Hashtags are the symbol which establishes that the phrase following it is an element of a folksonomy of some kind. Whereas a keyword search is just that, while it picks up hashtags which are the same as the keyword, it doesn’t describe an intentional community of practice using the word.
You can check out http://hashtags.org/ to see trends and see if a tag exists. or check out http://hashtags.twittersearchengine.net/wiki/Twitter_HashTags_Wiki the hashtags wiki, or the dictionary: http://www.hashdictionary.com/Hashtag
I want to spend just a second on the important experiential difference between a taxonomy and a folksonomy. A taxonomy has already been established, or started by other people --fundamentally you are absorbing content that was created by someone else.
Taxonomy![]()
...is the practice and science of classification. Typically this is organized by supertype-subtype relationships, also called generalization-specialization relationships, or less formally, parent-child relationships. In such an inheritance relationship, the subtype by definition has the same properties, behaviors, and constraints as the supertype plus one or more additional properties, behaviors, or constraints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy
©Peter Halasz
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biological_classification_L_Pengo_vflip.svg
Folksonomy
A folksonomy is constructivist/connectivist in nature, created by a local or familiar cohort of participants. It is only by connecting the use of our words, labels, terms and participants that develops their meaning. This empowers the participants because they can share and collaborate in the creation of content, expressing their passion and individuality.
http://pinterest.com/myan_duong/smarchitecture/
Sites like http://pinterest.com are building folksonomies of images.
A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content;[1][2] this practice is also known as collaborative tagging[3], social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
Real Time Internet
Real time internet is encountered in a variety of social media--but by far Twitter is the most comprehensive for learning. Facebook is taking on more and more of a real time character as it moves into enhanced chat and video, massive multiple on line games and other immersive technologies. Twitter is also moving into a variety of enhanced real time media through twitpics, video and geo-tagging. But I think of Twitter as The Stream, or the Pulse of the internet, the synapses of the world brain if you want.
I find I need to manage Twitter with http://hootsuite.com
So go ahead and set up an account there and link it to your Twitter. You can add a Facebook tab if you want to start exploring the tool, especially if you mange a couple of pages.
Create a new Stream in your “Featured “ section of Hootsuite. Create a couple of things that interest you: this is the architecture for your learning media ecosystem. Try creating a stream for our conference hashtag #FLC11 which would be our hyper local tag, These Hashtags can be as fleeting as the Tweets. As an example of how hashtags work in terms of communities of practice and developing a Personal Learning Network, take a look at this tweet:
| Emory Maiden posted this tweet, retweeted by Steven Anderson:
@web20classroom RT @evmaiden: 150 Ultimate Round-Up of Helpful #Twitter Articles - http://bit.ly/buCnmR |
This was only a couple of days before the conference, and it is perfect for this session, so I retweeted it and added the hashtag #FLC11, so we could find it in this session.
and let’s try #GIS--which would take us into the global context.
This is a map generated from social media reports of incidents during the Christchurch, NZ earthquake.
When I first typed #GIS in I was surprised how many jobs were posted here. Now I see that many hashtag categories are full of job opportunities. So I have my students look there for work. I bring #GIS up intentionally because geo spatial tagging and is where everything is going
Geo-tagging.
If you notice on your settings in Twitter, you can allow your location to be included in your tweet as a metatag, not part of your 140 character allowance.
Geotagging (also written as GeoTagging) is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs, video, websites, SMS messages, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. These data usually consist of latitude and longitude coordinates, though they can also include altitude, bearing, distance, accuracy data, and place names. It is commonly used for photographs, giving geotagged photographs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging
But if you think about the use of geotagging in the context of a r
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