Presentation as part of the Holmesglen TAFE Lunchtime Sessions (November, 2012)

1. PEERAGOGY AND NETWORKED
LEARNING
Michael Coghlan
26/11/12

2. Indicate with a tick which of the items below you use in your role as an educator

3. I would contend that the abundance of content and
connections is as fundamental shift in education as
any we are likely to encounter, and there has, to
date, been little attempt to really place this at the
centre of a model of teaching. (Martin Weller –
referring to A Pedagogy of Abundance)

4. PEERAGOGY = PARAGOGY
Stems from a philosophy of abundance (Tim Longhurst)
- of content and connections

5. SUBSCRIBING TO PEOPLE
• “People don’t subscribe to
magazines anymore. They
subscribe to people” (15 yr old)
• Subscribe:
– RSS feeds (websites, blogs, podcasts)
– Following people (Twitter)
– Friending people (Facebook)

6. FILTERING AND CURATION
• Clay Shirky: "It's not information overload. It's
filter failure.”
http://boingboing.net/2010/01/31/clay-shirky-on-infor.html

7. DIGITAL CURATION
• Curate via feeds,
follows, friends, OR
• Scoopit!, then
• Bookmark (Delicious,
Diigo)

8. NETWORKED LEARNING
• Enormously successful
model for professional
development
• BUT, does it translate to
the ‘normal’ teaching
context?
• “...there has, to date,
been little attempt to
really place this at the
centre of a model of
teaching.” (Weller)

9. NETWORKED LEARNING
• Assumes everyone in the network takes on
role of educator and student
• Everyone curates and shares content
• Collaborative
– Shared activities
– Co-creation/curation of content
– Peer review/assessment

10. NETWORKED LEARNING IS
IMPORTANT:
• Fosters an essential
component of digital
literacy
• it is becoming a lifelong
learning skill
Courtesy of Ruth Geer

11. NETWORKED LEARNING IS HARD!
• Requires advanced Internet skills
• You need to manage multiple accounts
• You have to work out who to follow!
• Involves sharing and being open with and
about what you know (against the
culture/values of many)

12. DOUBTS/SUSPICION
• Information generated
and curated from
networks is not from
recognised
authority/experts
• Not officially sanctioned
ie it isn’t in a textbook
• It’s INFORMAL

13. POSITIVE NEGATIVE
• Current • Tendency to want to know
• Digital literacy/lifelong everything
learning • The information flow never
• You have a gang (network) stops
to help you navigate, curate, • Can be distracting.
and create content (Multitasking is inefficient.)
• You’re never alone! • Information often comes in
byte-sized grabs > lack of
discourse of any substance
• Everything you do is tracked
and monitored (and
probably sold to a third
party for some commercial
advantage.)
So you need to be smart AND disciplined >>>>>

14. http://rheingold.com/netsmart/

15. michaelc@chariot.net.au