p2pu: peer learning fueled by open content

P2PU: Peer Learning Fueled by Open Content

www.p2pu.org

Our Presenters• Philipp Schmidt, Executive Director, P2PU• Karen Fasimpaur, P2PU School of Ed• Vanessa Gennarelli, P2PU Hack This Poem

Organizer• Alan Webb, P2PU School of Social

Innovation• Maria Droujkova, P2PU School of the

Mathematical Future

P2PU• Free online platform for peer learning– Openness– Community– Peer learning

• Study groups, courses, and challenges

P2PU School of Ed

Karen Fasimpaur

karen@k12opened.com@kfasimpaur

P2PU School of Ed• Designed for K-12 educators• A new model of professional development • Hands-on learning driven by each educator's

needs and classroom situations• About connecting, collaborating, and

creating, not just reading or studying

What We Learned in Our Pilot• Response was overwhelmingly positive• Learning is social – discussions were active

and powerful• Great facilitators help make great groups• Time for teachers is limited• Online peer learning is new for many

Spring TermNew groups and courses open now!

Connected Learning with Youth Voices

Writing and Inquiry in the Digital Age

P2PU: Hack this PoemVanessa Gennarelli

3/8/2012

Introduction

•Why a poetry workshop?•Why P2U?•Why hack this poem?

Course Design

•Work with pre-existing poems to see what makes them tick

•Determined learning goals first (poems are carefully constructed parts)

•Exercises in line with those learning goals

Intro Survey•Find out learner goals

•Surprises!•Determine

their comfort with technology

•Shared info with learners to build social presence

Find a Poem: What makes it work?

•Prompted learners to find their own content

•Several means to express themselves

• Introduce background & interests

“The Pier”-Christopher DeWeese

Community-built Assessment

•Elements that made a poem work determined the rubric

•Community determined how poems work--together

Weekly Summaries• Aggregated learning experience from that week

• Build-in layers of entry--folks could follow along

Learner Satisfaction Survey

•4 folks responded•25% posted a poem, analyzed a

poem, gave feedback•100% of folks read posts•Most common reason learners didn’t

post was that they ran out of time/too many other commitments

Takeaways for Next Time

•Remix is hard•Drafts/iterations of pieces•Create small teams of feedback

partners•Build expectation to evaluate others’

work•Layer in badges specifically for

relevant and insightful feedback

How Can I Get Involved?

•P2PU listserv•Make a Challenge•Writing for the Web Challenge

(launches today!)

Critiques? Ideas? Other feedback? Find

me.

•Vanessa Gennarelli•vanessa.gennarelli@gmail.com•@mozzadrella

Alan Webb@WebbTronic

@CitizenCircles

Week 1: Case Studies + Reflection on StrengthsWeek 2: Root Cause Analysis + ReflectionsWeek 3: Vision of a Perfect World -> SolutionsWeek 4: Creativity Exercise + Existing SolutionsWeek 5: Ecosystem + Existing Solution InterviewsWeek 6: Action (back to our strengths)Week 7: Self case study from the future

Example: Women as Social Innovators

Several Circles (Einige Kreise)

Wassily Kandinsky

Open content developed with partners and with the community Endorsed framework for peer review and evaluationLocal face-to-face participation in Hubs, Co.SpacesMentor and Advisor support

Open Degrees in Changemaking

Seeking Co-Designers

Cross-university minors & majors in social innovationCross-city open courses in social innovationChallenge creators and prototype participantsDesign for Social InnovatorsSystems ThinkingSocial Entrepreneurship 101etc.Community organizers

Alan Webb@WebbTronic

@CitizenCircles

Maria Droujkova

P2PU School of the Mathematical Future

Thank you for coming.

We’ll see you on P2PU!

www.p2pu.org