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Cultivating a Language Educator's Personal Learning
Network Through Informal Pedagogical Dialogues
by Benjamin StewartCO13
February 1, 2013-----
PLN Experience: http://bit.ly/WsdzFsTwitter: @bnleez
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Reflecting back on your own experience with teacher professional development, what type of experiences have led to useful learning that had the greatest influence on your language learners? Why?
Professional development
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In Mexico, as few as 40% of teachers receive the professional development support that they need.
Global average of 70%; Mexico trails 21 other countries
PD in Mexico
(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011)
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Sixty-sixty-five percent (60-65%) of Mexican teachers have no induction and mentoring programs.
Global average of 18-20%
PD in Mexico
(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011)
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Informal pedagogical dialogues become the means by which educators share how they interact with ideas, materials, and other educational stakeholders in terms of cultivating one’s personal learning network.
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Informal Pedagogical Dialogues vs. conferences, workshops, in-services, etc.
Informal Pedagogical Dialogues
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The tendency is to rely on isolated workshops and conferences as the primary means for promoting professional learning.
Informal Pedagogical Dialogues
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Chung, Darling-Hammond, Richardson, & Orphanos, 2009; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011).
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Cultivating a personal learning network
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Personal learning networks are the sum of all social capital and connections that result in the development and facilitation of a personal learning environment.
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There is a connection and contagion.
(Christakis & Fowler, 2009)
Social Networks
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We shape our networks.
(Christakis & Fowler, 2009)
Connection and contagion rules
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Our network shapes us (connection).
(Christakis & Fowler, 2009)
Connection and contagion rules
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A network has a life of its own.
(Christakis & Fowler, 2009)
Connection and contagion rules
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PLN = Ideas + Materials + Social Interaction
Personal learning network (PLN)
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Thoughts
Knowledge
Opinions Understanding
s
Perspectives
Beliefs
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Conceptual Understandings:
explain, interpret, apply, perspective, empathy, and self-knowledge
(Wiggins and McTighe, 2005)
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PLN = Ideas + Materials + Social Interaction
Personal learning network (PLN)
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What materials are needed to communicate with others?
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PLN = Ideas + Materials + Social Interaction
Personal learning network (PLN)
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With whom do you interact?
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How do you interact?
One to oneOne to many
Many to one Clusters
Unidirectional
Bidirectional
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How do you interact?
ColleaguesThose outside your institutionLike-minded individualsDiverse opinions
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PLN = Ideas + Materials + Social Interaction
Material Semiotic (physical and non-physical actors)
...how natural, social, and technical objects become enacted within a web, how they associate and exercise force, and how they persist, decline, and mutate over time
(Fenwick & Edwards, 2010)
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How do EFL educators in Mexico conduct open, online, informal pedagogical dialogues that enrich a personal learning network?
Purpose
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(Creswell, 2009) A multiple case study, employing a qualitative research design. One which allows participants to
share interpretations through an inductive, emergent, and holistic approach.
Research Design
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Seven to 10 EFL educators from three different local institutions
Participants
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Data Collection
Table 1
Online survey 15 minutes
Face-to-face orientation 90 minutes
10-week interaction period 10 hours (i.e., one hour per week)
Five biweekly hangouts (optional) Five hours (i.e., one hour every other week)
Final one-on-one interview 30 minutes
Total time 12 hours and 15 minutes to 17 hours minimum
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PLN Experience
PLNE webpage: http://bit.ly/U0QlEf
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Personal Learning Network Experience
(http://bit.ly/U0QlEf)
vs.Massive Open Online
Course (MOOC) (Video)
(MOOC video: http://bit.ly/X8p1oe)(Success in a MOOC: http://bit.ly/X8ph6A)
PLN and the PLN Experience
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Add video of PLNE page
Google+ TILL Community
TILL (Google+) Community: http://bit.ly/12rUVBE
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Personal blog, website, wiki, ning, groups, other Moodle, etc...and Twitter hashtag to aggregate information
All websites are to be open to the public.
Data Collection
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Case-Quintain dilemma
Data Analysis
(Stake, 2006)
Case study Quintain
Individual attributes Personal learning network (concept)
Findings Findings
Cross-case analysis Themes: pre-determined & emergent
Themes based on research questions
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Looking back over the last one-to-two weeks, what do you think was the most significant change in your personal learning network (ideationally, materially, and interpersonally) that contributed to your own professional learning?
(Davies & Dart, 2005)Most Significant Change Stories
Diachronic Data Analysis
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Change stories: Cognitive vs. meta-cognitive
Diachronic Data Analysis
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What do I know?What do the participants know?
What does the audience of my final interpretation know?
Reflexivity and openness
Double hermeneutic
subject vs. object Research design and interpretation of data
participants vs. researcher How prior events influence current behavior
(Mills, Durepos, & Wiebe, Norreklit, 2006; 2010; Patton, 2002)
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Feel free to visit the PLNE home page if you would like to participate, and I thank you for your attention!
by Benjamin StewartCO13
February 1, 2013-----
PLN Experience: http://bit.ly/WsdzFsTwitter: @bnleez
Google+: gplus.to/bnleezGoogle+ Community: http://bit.ly/12rUVBE
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Christakis, N. & Fowler, J. (2009). Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Chung Wei, R., Darling-Hammond, L., Andree, A., Richardson, N., & Orphanos, S. (2009). Professional learning in the learning profession: A status report on teacher development in the US and abroad. Standford, CA: National Staff Development Council.
Creswell, J. (2009). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Darling-Hammond, L., Wei, R., Andree, A., Richardson, N., & Orphanos, S. (2009). State of the profession: Study measures status of professional development. JSD, 30(2), 42-50.
Davies, R. & Dart, J. (2005). The ‘most significant change’ (MSC) technique: A guide to its use. Retrieved from http://www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.pdf
References
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Downes, S. (2009). Origins of the term 'personal learning network'. Retrieved from http://halfanhour.blogspot.mx/2009/10/origins-of-term-personal-learning.html
Fenwick, T. & Edwards, R. (2010). Actor-network theory in education. New York: Routledge.
Mills, A., Durepos, G., & Wiebe, E. (2010). Encyclopedia of case study research, vol. 2. London: Sage Publications.
Norreklit, L. (2006). The double hermeneutics of life world: A perspective on the social, dialogue, and interpretation. Retrieved from http://vbn.aau.dk/files/18718783/5-Double_hermeneutics.pdf
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (2011). Building a high-quality teaching profession: Lessons from around the world. Retrieved from http://1.usa.gov/WoNshj
Patton, M. (2002). Qualitative research & evaluation methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
References
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Stake, R. (2006). Multiple case study analysis. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Stevens, V. (2012). When is a MOOC not a MOOC? Retrieved from http://advanceducation.blogspot.mx/
Veletsianos, G. (2010). Emerging technologies in distance education. Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
References
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by Benjamin StewartCO13
February 1, 2013-----
PLN Experience: http://bit.ly/WsdzFsTwitter: @bnleez
Google+: gplus.to/bnleezGoogle+ Community: http://bit.ly/12rUVBE