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Keynote presentation at TACCLE2 Conference, Brussels, 17th October 2014

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Open to possibility:Networked learning with our

students

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Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin

#TACCLE2 Conference17th October 2014

@catherinecronin#taccle2

slideshare.net/cicronin

Schools are places where people learn to ‘do democracy’.

Keri Facer (2011)

“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”

– Joi Ito @joi

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democratic conversations

voice dissonance networks

democratic conversations

voice dissonance networks

The voices of children have been missing from the whole discussion.

Jonathan Kozol (1992)Savage Inequalities

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soundpresence

participationpower

agency

Youth Media Team @YMTfm

The ways in which new technologies are used in school to silence or empower, to control or to engage, has the potential to… shape student expectations about how democratic practice and civic engagement should play out in the socio-technical spaces of the 21st century.

Keri Facer (2011) Learning Futures

democratic conversations

voice dissonance networks

Social Networks

InternetMobile

Networked Individualism

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There is a divide between formal and informal learning.

Students navigate the dissonance between these – with or without our support.

Seamus Heaney Lightenings viii - video by Eoghan Kidney

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democratic conversations

voice dissonance networks

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Networked Teacher

NetworkedEducators

NetworkedStudents

NetworkedEducators

NetworkedStudents

Physical Spaces

Bounded Online Spaces

Open Online Spaces

NetworkedEducators

NetworkedStudents

Physical Spaces

Bounded Online Spaces

Open Online Spaces

We proposed the idea of a Third Space where teacher and student scripts – the formal and informal, the official and unofficial spaces of the learning environment – intersect, creating the potential for authentic interaction and a shift in the social organization of learning and what counts as knowledge.

University of Colorado, Boulder

Kris Gutiérrez (2008)

People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of our lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit...

I take an approach that urges me to consider the significant overlap across these boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel through different and even contradictory contexts and activities .

Gutiérrez (2008)

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Open practices give us and our students opportunities to cross boundaries of geography, culture, institution, term, education sector, community, and/or power level…

Individuals, students and educators, can be nodes in a network.

Groups and learning communities also can be nodes, e.g. via #hashtags.

democratic conversations

voice dissonance networks

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Third level: #ct231 @CT231

Third level: #ct231 @CT231

Third level: #ct231 @CT231

#icollab TAGSExplorerthanks to @mhawksey

I learned a lot more about writing to the public. Before this I would have been less likely to express my views to a group of people online whereas now I would not have a problem in doing so.

By posting publicly it opened up our world to other academics or people who are just interested in the topic... I don’t think anyone would have thought that the author of one of the works we were researching would get involved.

#studentvoice

Openness...

Before studying it, I used Facebook and Twitter mainly just for keeping in contact with people, but since have discovered they both have much more to offer.

They are places to discover new information and boost your knowledge. That both education and socialising can be rolled into one.

#studentvoice

Social networks...

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Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie

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Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie

Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie

www.chalfontmediablog.blogspot.co.uk

http://storify.com/jamesmichie/friendship-the-digital-self-and-instant-gratificat/elements/50a6426e0e4c64ad6b1da246

Secondary school: #CCCMedia @jamesmichie

Primary school: @msokeefesclass

Primary school: @msokeefesclass

kidblog.org/msokeeffesclass/

Primary school: @msokeefesclass

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Youth Media Team @ymtFM

Coder Dojo @coderdojo

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Transforming education in such a way is a scary proposition. It won’t be quick, it won’t be easy, and it may not be immediately successful. However, the current model is even more frightening than this kind of change. We can’t continue to let the gap between school and life grow ever wider and crush students’ desire to learn. I hope that you join me in this fight for fundamental redesign of school.

Nicholas J.2nd year secondary student

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“We have to build our half of the bridge…” Colum McCann

Thank you!Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin

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