Sunday, October 31, 2004
Presentation by Lave
I found a presentation by Jean Lave from 1999: "The Politics of Learning in Everyday Life." It also includes the audio.
New Settings for Our Blog
You should see a pencil icon following each blog entry. Clicking the pencil will allow you to edit the post immediately. You do have to be logged in your blogger account.
I also have a 'secret' email address that allows me to email a blog entry. The subject becomes the entry title and the body of the email is the body of the entry. I have it set to make it a draft and to not directly publish. I think you can set this up for yourselves also. Check the settings.
I also have a 'secret' email address that allows me to email a blog entry. The subject becomes the entry title and the body of the email is the body of the entry. I have it set to make it a draft and to not directly publish. I think you can set this up for yourselves also. Check the settings.
Is CI5331 a COP?
Happy Halloween!
Etienne Wenger's site has a good introduction to Communities of Practice.
My idea of using our class as a COP still has merit, I think. But what about the class itself and not "grad students"?
The question: Is our class a community of practice?
There are three crucial characteristics (see Wenger above): domain, community, practice.
Our domain is instructional design.
Our community is the class. We meet regularly and learn together and help each other in the learning process.
Our practice? I'm not so sure about this.
We certainly have sustained interaction but what is the practice in the end? We are not all planning on becoming Instructional Designers. Could we say our practice is teaching? What we learn in Aaron's class will certainly help in being a good teacher.
Etienne Wenger's site has a good introduction to Communities of Practice.
My idea of using our class as a COP still has merit, I think. But what about the class itself and not "grad students"?
The question: Is our class a community of practice?
There are three crucial characteristics (see Wenger above): domain, community, practice.
Our domain is instructional design.
Our community is the class. We meet regularly and learn together and help each other in the learning process.
Our practice? I'm not so sure about this.
Members of a community of practice are practitioners. They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems—in short a shared practice. This takes time and sustained interaction.
Etienne Wenger
We certainly have sustained interaction but what is the practice in the end? We are not all planning on becoming Instructional Designers. Could we say our practice is teaching? What we learn in Aaron's class will certainly help in being a good teacher.
Friday, October 29, 2004
Wikipedia Entry for Situated Learning
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
What Is Situated Learning?
Definitions of Situated Learning on the Web (from Google, define: situated learning):
theory formulated by Lave and Wenger which considers social interaction to be central for learning, and where the physical and social environment plays a vital role in the learning process. For an introduction, with further links, see for example Chen or Brown.
clp.cqu.edu.au
It's learning on the job but learning as a "legitimate peripheral participant." This means more than just being a laborer doing a task; it means truly learning or legitimately participating and changing your status from one of novice to an old-timer.
Why Kablogerate?
As I created this blog I had to come up with a name and my wife, Mary, came up with the kablogerate idea as a play on the words "blog" and "collaborate."
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Thinking about Situated Learning
(Added a WebCT link on the left under Google News. Any other links? I thought of putting the articles from our posts.)
What's the name of our group? Since we are Kablogging, I suggest Kablogerators. Other ideas? We should post to the WebCT area.
Lots of questions to answer from the TIP hand0ut. Shall we Powerpoint the basic stuff (authors, theory, impact, etc.)? Or maybe we can find a cool web ap for presentation.
I really like the Dynamic Learning Communities piece referred by Aimee and it got my cognitive juices flowing.
I am wondering if we could develop a generative activity that would use our class as a dynamic learning community with the CoP being graduate students. Some of us have been around for a while (Aimee, George), others (me) are new to the system and have not even applied to grad school yet. We have our experts and novices.
We then come up with an environment of generating some of this knowledge. How we do this is still vague for me. We could identify a novice and have her or him ask a question and an expert would respond. Identifying experts and novices could be part of the process.
We could assess the learning with a survey and folks could give it back and we could post results to the blog. I might even be able to get an online form up for the assessment but no promises.
What do you think?
What's the name of our group? Since we are Kablogging, I suggest Kablogerators. Other ideas? We should post to the WebCT area.
Lots of questions to answer from the TIP hand0ut. Shall we Powerpoint the basic stuff (authors, theory, impact, etc.)? Or maybe we can find a cool web ap for presentation.
I really like the Dynamic Learning Communities piece referred by Aimee and it got my cognitive juices flowing.
I am wondering if we could develop a generative activity that would use our class as a dynamic learning community with the CoP being graduate students. Some of us have been around for a while (Aimee, George), others (me) are new to the system and have not even applied to grad school yet. We have our experts and novices.
We then come up with an environment of generating some of this knowledge. How we do this is still vague for me. We could identify a novice and have her or him ask a question and an expert would respond. Identifying experts and novices could be part of the process.
We could assess the learning with a survey and folks could give it back and we could post results to the blog. I might even be able to get an online form up for the assessment but no promises.
What do you think?
Quotes
Some things I jotted down for the heck of it...
"Rather than asking what kind of cognitive processes and conceptual structures are involved, they ask what kinds of social engagements provide the proper context for learning to take place" William F. Hanks from the introduction to Situated Learning by Lave & Wegner.
"So we tend to think of DLCs [Dynamic Learning Communities] not simply as tools for self-directed learning, but as supportive communities wherein a variety of learning goals may be pursued, some individual and some shared throughout the membership."
Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems
Brent Wilson, Martin Ryder
"The cost of DLC's in industry is the cost of allowing employees to break away from their isolated duties to enable apprentice observation, collaboration, and formal discussions about work related tasks and issues, the ability to archive new knowledge in retrievalbe structures, and the ability to engage in Internet discussions and research activities that relate to job-specific problems and issues."
Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems
Brent Wilson, Martin Ryder
"Rather than asking what kind of cognitive processes and conceptual structures are involved, they ask what kinds of social engagements provide the proper context for learning to take place" William F. Hanks from the introduction to Situated Learning by Lave & Wegner.
"So we tend to think of DLCs [Dynamic Learning Communities] not simply as tools for self-directed learning, but as supportive communities wherein a variety of learning goals may be pursued, some individual and some shared throughout the membership."
Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems
Brent Wilson, Martin Ryder
"The cost of DLC's in industry is the cost of allowing employees to break away from their isolated duties to enable apprentice observation, collaboration, and formal discussions about work related tasks and issues, the ability to archive new knowledge in retrievalbe structures, and the ability to engage in Internet discussions and research activities that relate to job-specific problems and issues."
Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems
Brent Wilson, Martin Ryder
Some readings at delicious
I think I emailed this but I'll toss it in the blog:
http://del.icio.us/pfhyper/COP
Several links to 'community of practice' and situated learning stuff. You might also check the "COP from all users" link on the right. Others have been creating these bookmarks too.
Delicious is quite a nice site for storing bookmarks. If either of you are interested in using it, we could subscribe to each other's 'COP' listings.
http://del.icio.us/pfhyper/COP
Several links to 'community of practice' and situated learning stuff. You might also check the "COP from all users" link on the right. Others have been creating these bookmarks too.
Delicious is quite a nice site for storing bookmarks. If either of you are interested in using it, we could subscribe to each other's 'COP' listings.
