Learning through Performance: Students as teachers and presenters

Steve WheelerPlymouth University

“For the first time we are preparing

students for a future we

cannot clearly describe.”

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_1947.jpg

“I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

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Surface Learning

Deep Learning

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Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

http://slated.org

Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Cognition

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Declarative

Procedural

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Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

ENGAGEMENT

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/specialkrb/2772991999

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PassiveObserver

TransactionalParticipant

PeripheralParticipant

Core Group

Full Member

Adapted from: Karalis, T. (2010) Situated and transformative learning: exploring the potential of critical reflection to enhance organizational knowledge, Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 24 (1), 17 - 20

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‘Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions.’ (O’Sullivan, 2003)

http://www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/2003/Mezirow.html

Jack Merizow

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Perspective transformation

Psychological (changes in self concept) Convictional changes (revision of belief systems)Behavioural changes (changes in lifestyle)

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Photo by Steve Wheeler

We learn by doing (Piaget, 1950)

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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We learn by making (Papert, 1980)Photo by Steve Wheeler

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“One of the most important technologies for active, flexible learning…” – Derek Bruff

Photo by Steve Wheeler

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Students taking notesPhoto: Lori Cullen

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Digital cultural capital – membership of ‘the Tribe’

“Where digital communication has fractured the tyranny of

distance and computers have become pervasive and

ubiquitous, identification through digital mediation has

become the new cultural capital”.

Wheeler (2009)http://www.coreideas.com.au/

Personal windows on the world

http://web.media.mit.edu/~papert/

“I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.”

– Seymour Papert Stev

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Personal Learning NetworksPhoto by Steve Wheeler

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http://bradley.chattablogs.com

“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom for collecting knowledge… through collecting people”.

- Karen Stephenson

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Distributed LearningParagogy

We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

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Wii are family!

http://wiifitnessdepot.com

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Beyond my reach

What I can learn with help(ZPD)

ZPD and scaffolding

What I can learn on my

own

Technology and toolsKnowledgeable others

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http://thirdmonth.blogspot.co.uk

Computers as ‘mind tools’ for the engaging of learners in critical thinking

- David Jonassen

Photo by Mark Hillary http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/4135336907/

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Twitter Wall

Learning

User generated

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Learning by making

Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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Blogging and Tweeting

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Blogging

http://www.volusion.com/

In the act of writing... ...we are written.

- Daniel Chandler

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Crowdsourcing knowledge:Building your PLN

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Photo by Steve Wheeler

“Blogging ... Is the most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that

we have.”

- Lawrence Lessig

http://news.oreilly.com

“Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few...”

- Katie Hafner

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What my students said about Twitter...

http://jcbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-twitter.html

Students blogging

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“I have never had to work so hard before!”

Flip the roles, not just the classroom

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“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student

contradiction, by reconciling the poles

of the contradiction so that both are

simultaneously teachers and

students.”

- Paulo Freire

http://arts.anu.edu.au

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http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm

We learn by teaching

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Bearpit Pedagogy

http://open.salon.com

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Self organised learning

For successful self organised learning the essential components are:

• Communication• Reflection• Collaboration• Community• Creative Tools• Amplification

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Heutagogy

Flâneur

Self-determined learning

Hase & Kenyon

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Making Connections

In Connectivism, learning involves creating connections and developing a network. It is

a theory for the digital age drawing upon chaos, emergent properties, and self

organised learning.

(It’s not what you know, but who you know)

Source: Wikipediahttp://www.pestproducts.com

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RhizomesDeleuze & Guattari

Anarchy of the Web

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Rhizomatic learning

Source: Cormier, D. (2008) http://davecormier.com/edblog/

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“In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, [and is] a personal knowledge-creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.”

http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/why-social-networks-matter

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Personal Stev

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki

Presenting your work for peer review

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Video or Podcast

Conference paper

Peer reviewed

journal article

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Photo by Josh Liba: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-4017909606

Digital Identityhttp://kellyholborow.blogspot.co.uk

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“All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

- John W. Gardner

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