OTF/OADE Social Media and Teacher Learning Conference 2012

1. Creating a New Story of
Education in the Digital
Age
@susanmdrake @crutherford
Brock University
Susan Drake Camille Rutherford

3. • PERSONAL
• CULTURAL
• GLOBAL
• UNIVERSAL.
Frames of
Knowing/Learning
Frames of
Knowing/Learning

4. Present story is in
flux/crisis/transformation
• Values (+ or -) are embedded in all stories
• The present story is part “old story” and also the
anticipated future (intentionality)
• Personal story filtered through a cultural, global
and universal lens
Understanding the Present
Story
Understanding the Present
Story

5. • Deconstruct the “old story” to discover the values
that drive the story.
• These values may be positive and/or negative
• These values can be deeply embedded and we can
identify them by what we do rather than what we
say - implicit rather than explicit (Argyis &
Schon, 1978)
Understanding the Old
Story
Understanding the Old
Story

6. • New Story driven by values
• Best of the Old Story and Emerging Story
• Dialectic process between the Old and the
Emerging Story
Understanding the Old
Story
Understanding the Old
Story

7. My Story
If I believe in the values of the New
Story …
I need to both tell the New Story
and act on it.
My Story MY ACTIONMy Story MY ACTION

9. • Technology/social media
• Gay/lesbian story
• Women’s story in first world countries
• Smoking
• Change in most professions ( e.g. health care)
• Euthanasia
• Education
New Stories in the
Making
New Stories in the
Making

10. Education
Legislation
Technology
Social Media
Catalysts for ChangeCatalysts for Change

11. • Technological-skills impaired
• Fascinated by the promise of social media to
transform education
• Writing with colleagues on Google Docs while
Skyping.
• Research – finding participants through Twitter
Personal Story - SusanPersonal Story - Susan

12. • Dynamic learning experiences via Twitter
• Brock Learning Network
• Blogging created an escape route from
traditional academia
• Google Docs
Personal Story - CamillePersonal Story - Camille

13. What is your personal story?
Personal Story - YouPersonal Story - You

14. • Crisis/major change in North American
schools
• Faculties of Education reluctant to change
• Lack of 21st Century skills
Cultural StoryCultural Story

15. • Information network global village
• BOTH accountability AND relevance
(innovation, creativity)
• Major institutions and professions
challenged
• Reality is interconnected and
interdependent
• There is no black box of secrets
Global StoryGlobal Story

16. • All humans make sense of the world
through story
• Humans learn in similar ways
Universal StoryUniversal Story

17. Education:
From Old Story to New
Story
Flickr photo by Total Mayhem
Flickr photo by Alec Corous

18. • Factory model
• Teacher as expert
• Student is passive isolated learner
• One conveyor belt for all
Old StoryOld Story

19. • One right answer (there is a real truth)
• Scientific method
• Knowledge is linear, sequential, rational,
logical and objective
• Knowledge can be quantified
• Predict and control
• Mastery of the universe
Old Story - KnowledgeOld Story - Knowledge

20. • Standardization
• Bell curve
• Accountability
• Comparison
• Competition
Old Story - PracticesOld Story - Practices

21. Linear, procedural
thinking
(Left brain)
Competition
Objectivity Hierarchy/power
Prediction/control Socialization in schools
(status quo)
Old Story - ValuesOld Story - Values

22. Emerging New Story:
The 21st
Century School
The Emerging Story
becomes “The Story”
at the “tipping
point”. Social media
quickly hastens the
tipping point (e.g.
Arab Spring)Flickr photo by Gwenael Piaser

23. • Inquiry-driven, technology-embedded, connected
classrooms
• Project-based learning connected to real life
• Constructivist classroom
• Dynamic teacher role
• Global connections
• Differentiated and personalized learning and
assessment strategies
New Story PracticesNew Story Practices

24. • Many answers – co-constructed knowledge
(Wikipedia)
• Knowledge is uncertain, indeterminate,
subjective, multiple realities (not one truth)
• Metacognition
New Story KnowledgeNew Story Knowledge

25. • Cloud
• Personalization – Web 3
• Learning in the collective
• Personal learning networks
• Open Source
• Globalization
• New Literacies
New Story TrendsNew Story Trends

26. • Learn – unlearn – relearn
• Intrinsic motivation
• Assessment of, for and as learning.
(Crowdsourcing)
• Passion-based learning
• Challenge-based learning
New Story TrendsNew Story Trends

27. New Story ValuesNew Story Values
•Open
•Collaborative
•Dynamic
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28. New Story Values &
The Faculties of
Education
New Story Values &
The Faculties of
Education
Our Stories?
Our Values?
Our Actions?