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Learning conversations in learning networks

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Transferring knowledge, creating solutions, learning together.  Having a ‘learning conversation’ ensures that deep dialogue takes place. This is because it is a planned conversation which allows you to reflect on your practice in a structured way. The dialogue is facilitated and follows certain agreed protocols to guarantee maximum learning for participants. It is a collaborative learning model which offers the isolated practitioner, attempting to improve her/his practice, a co-operative group of fellow professionals with whom to engage in order to challenge and assist their own and each other’s  learning and development.

❝ A learning conversation is a planned and systematic approach to professional dialogue that supports teachers to reflect on their practice. As a result the teacher gains new knowledge and uses it to improve his or her teaching. ❞

The following information is intended as a guide which describes some of the ways in which your professional conversations can become focused, structured and well-facilitated in order that truly transformational learning can take place.

 

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National College for School Leadership, UK

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    • medway medway
      18 months ago


      Thanks for that, it's food for thought.
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    • François Dongier
      18 months ago


      Maybe some twines, or versions of some twines, or versions of sets of twines could become learning conversations. Interesting to see how the picture on the last page of the article looks familiar.
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      • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
        18 months ago


        Learning communities, learning networks, learning conversations, collaborative learning, collaborative knowledge building, etc. are all a cluster of concepts, tools and experiences that might help us to conceptualize the colaborative learning process within Twine or with Twine, some people are following the work at Twine. Sometime in the near future, with enough papers in the oven, we could start working on this. Having that goal in mind might help us to focus the reading. Lets think about.
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    • Pierre Lévy Pierre Lévy
      18 months ago


      I'm currently using a (private) twine for a master's class of knowledge management / social computing at the university of Ottawa. Students have to comment (and comment comments) on the bibliography's books.
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    • Kurt Laitner Kurt Laitner
      18 months ago


      until we get the ability to feed twine contents into other twines so we can make a truly 'meta-twine' on a subject any efforts will result in a kluge

      for discovery purposes I will at some point post the lot of them to Learning on the meta-twine twine which groups twines by topic (but unfortunately does nothing to aggregate their content in any intelligent way)

      saved searches and piping search results one time or real time into another twine will be very useful as well.

      see my shares below for more
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    • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
      18 months ago


      I am trying to prepare several posting by Subject, with a cluster of Twines, just to give some critical mass of thinking material. I have seen that many of my early posting are lost just for not been related. Some back-engineering is necessary. With some Items I have given suggestion of Related Items. That might help. I will try to systemitize on this. Relating might be a Social process, Commenting whenever we have some Items in mind. Improves the relational and conversational nature of reading, understanding and learning.

      I have proposed it to some of my e-students as group-work, with good understanding and learning results. Most of them come with new proposals. They enjoy the freedom of doing research and organizing by themselves the reading. Most of the time I propose one Subject and the end result contains Several Subjects, knowledge building.

      We have a fragmented conversation here at Twine, right now, and interesting exchange just in this Twine, even if this Item was posted in several of them. I think Comments should cross all Twines where the Item was posted.
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      • Kurt Laitner Kurt Laitner
        18 months ago


        comment federation has been discussed and rejected by twine corp (senior architect), in favor of the tunneling provided by shares and comment counts in the name of retaining context. I think a hybrid solution of all comments in one thread and retaining differentiated contexts would be achievable.
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        • Giorgio Bertini Giorgio Bertini
          18 months ago


          Comments are related to Items not to Twines, so breaking them is breaking conversations, fragmenting a dialog, fragmenting a process, freezing participation.
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          • Kurt Laitner Kurt Laitner
            18 months ago


            Mixed contexts can in fact be very fruitful discussion, though not necessarily productive (having an artist comment on a picture of a muon in the same thread as two physicists may well generate some valuable innovation, but it is unlikely. It may be a great conversation nonetheless). The mix of contexts may be functional or disfunctional depending on the goal. Participation and dialogue are means not ends.

            Since twine has no intrinsic goals, mixing contexts is likely appropriate.

            Also note you and I are having a conversation that spans several shared objects (items) in different contexts, yet has a thread of its own, so it is more complicated than just federating comments on an item.

            must sleep now.
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          • Kurt Laitner Kurt Laitner
            18 months ago


            really enjoy our chats Giorgio
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            • . .•∞º˙ . .•∞º˙
              18 months ago


              reading this exchange I've realized something. You talk about Twines being linear conversations, but conversations between people spanning different twines. I find myself at times following behind the person, and not down the Twine.

              People move from topic to topic, conversation to conversation, and I manually end up tracking someone's thought process via search/comments as they leave their breadcrumb trail through this environment.

              There is currently a link attached to everyone's avatar, that takes you to that person's profile page--what would be nice would be a sub-link, that lets you follow their path between twines, so you can journey as they have, and catch gems like this conversation.
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              • Kurt Laitner Kurt Laitner
                18 months ago


                an easier way to get to a persons "items + posts" with the twine showing (context hopping) all available from a hyper link on every instance of the person's avatar - sure, sounds like a fabulous idea, simple AND fabulous - that said performance on the search http://www.twine.com/search?text=&start=10&author=rpfiii which would drive that function would need to be improved...
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    • Pierre Lévy Pierre Lévy
      18 months ago


      Excellent Idea Georgio !
      Uniform Semantic Locators (USL) will allow us to do what Kurt is speaking about (see www.ieml.org)
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    • Kurt Laitner Kurt Laitner
      16 months ago


      see comments on collective intelligence
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