From the cult of content
to collaborative communities
Dean Groom, 2011 - Massively Productive
The inter-connected learing future of children is likely to be though technology.
Creating new roots.
Content is no longer king.
Cyberculture
Popculture
Technology
Sophistication
Digital Content
into
classrooms
1995-2005
Classroom content
into
digital communities
2006-now
Be a Radical, set
down new roots
to grow stronger
communities
Create digital free space of movement within more rigid physical structures
Take your classroom to the world, rather than it being the world
Use technology for social-inclusion and diversity in learning episodes
Build Digital Citizenship skills
Radicalism can ...
Saturate problems with information and ideas with real world relevance
Immerse students in spaces that are impossible to recreate in the classroom without technology.
Strive to affect or alter student opinion outside of the classroom
New Roots can ...
Grand theft childhood
To survive the 21st Century
students need to learn to
ask and ask to learn - in and
outside of the classroom.
What do you plan to change between now and
when you retire?
Is the world invariable?
A brief history of
things I've failed at

(which taught me
to work harder)
I created 72 wikispaces before I finally created one that I think worked
I wrote 3 blog posts a week for 3 years before I really
figured out what I
wanted to write about.
It took me 2 years to reach the top level in
World of Warcraft. I died 6,208 times to do it.
It took my 10 year old
6 months and he has twice the reputation points I do.
What should be learned?
How do we know they learned it?
What if they've already learned it?
What do we do if they don't learn it?
Catalysts for teachers
I asked Twitter to help me come
up with some clever metaphors
for educational change. 

Using Bacon.
5 ways to make new
ideas happen
Avoid a reactionary
workflow
bombardment: email, text messages, tweets, facebook posts, phone calls, instant messages, etc.
Avoid spending all your energy reacting, enslaved to the last incoming item
Set out times for non-stimulation:

Getting excited about what's on Twitter
Exchanging war-stories in the staffroom can be a killer
Create time to focus on your projects and mastery, even if it's an hour a week.
Create Join focused conversations, not every conversation

#edchat #auedchat
Start a Google Moderator Conversation
Spend an hour a week playing a video game with your peers (online)
Strip Projects To Three Primary Elements
* Action Steps
* Backburner Items,
* Reference Items
Measure Learning &
Community Building by
Action Steps.
Reduce Your
Insecurity Work
Don't demand the use of technologies you preference and exclude others

Don't retreat to the textbook exercises, ask the planet for better exercises

Honour your passion and ideas, don't defer to being unsatisfied
Survive The
“Learning Plateau.”
New ideas are easy to have, they are hard to sustain if too ambitious

Exiting ideas, lead to exciting discovery ... it takes time.

The plateau is grinding work gaining mastery and understanding

Don't start a new mission, work out whats lagging this one down first.
Unlike adults, children identify technology as being useful in their developmental years by totally inhabiting it - as insiders - creating identity, seeking information, placing themselves in immersive spaces as individuals and to be connected to their peers
Community of insiders
An Internet connection in a student's hands or on her desk is literally an open window to information, knowledge, expertise and experience that was not within our reach just a few years ago.
Infinate windows
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should. There is an aweful lot of really bad things online.

Lets look at a video nasty. Feel free
to Tweet your obversations #rde11
Terrible2.0
So what is engaging
young people? What
can we learn from them?
* Branching enquiry,
* rapid feedback loops,
* community,
* process networks,
* open architecture
Realism
Relevance
Resonance
the 3Rs of PBL
If I asked you if you could teach 1000 students in a term, you'd probably think I was nuts.

A PBL teacher would ask 'what can I do with a 1000 researchers'
the role of the student
How can we use poetry to make young people aware human cost of war?
These communities
exist, they want you
to join, learn and
share and connect
your classroom to
something bigger
than content.
TY:)
Ask questions kids can't