2. FLOW – of discussion
Current
Introduction Opportunities
Models
Open:
Who Am I? Blooms Leadership
Taxonomy OER
Learning
Connected
Learning
Current Connect-
Educational Collaborate-
Context Global
Achievement Gap Create
3. W
Who has participated in:
elcome! Question #1
A) open online courses
B) open online webinars
C) open online conferences
4. Who has created:
Question #2
A) blogs
B) wikis
C) RSS feeds
D) online courses
E) other open online content options?
5. What age level do you work with
in Education? with in Education?
• k-6
• Middle school/Jr.High
• High School
• Higher Education
• Other
6. What audience are you looking to
create an "open" environment for?
• Staff
• Community of Practice
• Administrators
• Students
• Parents
• Others?
7. Takeaways….WHAT is Open Learning?
Open Learning wiki:
http://openlearningk12.wikispaces.
com
GoogleDoc: http://bit.ly/R7BM3k
8. My Story
Mom, Teacher and
Open Learner
How Did I Get Here?
10. Rather than thinking of
public education as a
burden that schools must
shoulder on their own, what
would it mean to think of
public education as a
responsibility of a more
distributed network of
people and institutions...
11. This public education
….should include those that
are relevant and accessible
to kids now, where they can
find role models, recognition,
friends, and collaborators
who are co participants in the
journey of growing up in a
digital age.
Mimi Ito, 2010
12. Classrooms of the Past?
1907 Classroom 60’s Classroom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keenepubliclibrary/5 4100754477/
448178933/
13. Classroom in 2012 – US Election Images
http://teams- http://edudemic.com/2012/11/8-ways-education-
tutoringinschools.wikispaces.com/Tutoring+R could-change-during-the-next-4-years/
eading
14. What does “Breaking Down”
our Classroom Walls mean?
HOW DO WE OPEN OUR CLASSROOMS TO THE
WORLD?
15. Let’s Consider what Open Classrooms look like:
Open in Africa Open in North America
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisabroad/5737441972
/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/992169
584/in/photostream/
16. Let’s Bridge the Divide by Opening
our Minds as we Open our
Classrooms
17. Are Open Classrooms Public Spaces?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/8027532130/lightbox/
18. Integrating Technology Into Our Classeshat
ignited the idea even more...
Have you heard this before?
Retrieved from:
http://edudemic.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/04/cartoon.jpg
26. Collaboration
Critical Thinking
Across Networks Agility and
and Problem
and Leading By Adaptability
Solving
Influence
Accessing and Effective oral and
Initiative and
Analyzing written
Entrepreneurship
Information communication
Curiosity and
imagination
Tony Wagner’s Seven Survival Skills
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2008/08/2
0_wagner.php
27. Have you used it?
Have you edited it?
Have you created
anything for it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
38. Characteristics of Open Learning:
• Open Access
• Collaboration
• Open Platforms
• Social Media Integration
• Transparent Communication
• Credit to Sources
• Feedback Loop
• Approachable
• Focus on learning for all
(Interdisciplinary, Intergenerational,
International)
39. Open Leadership
Stephanie @stephrrivera
Rivera
Student
@wrightsroom Teacher
Shelley George @gcouros
Wright Couros
HS Teacher Principal
Open
Leaders
Silvia
Dean
@shareski Shareski Tolisano @langwitches
Professor IT Spec
ialist
Laurie
Renton
Primary
Teacher
@RentonL
40. Characteristics of “Superior” Leaders
1) Mission pi·o·neer (p-nîr)n.1. One who ventures into
2) Vision unknown or unclaimed territory to settle.
3) Goal 2. One who opens up new areas of thought,
research, or development: a pioneer in
4) Competency aviation.
5) A strong team 3. A soldier who performs construction and
6) Communication Skills demolition work in the field to facilitate troop
7) Interpersonal skills movements.
8) A “can do, get it done” attitude 4. Ecology An animal or plant species that
9) Inspiration establishes itself in a previously barren
10) Ambition environment.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pioneer
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/204248
43. Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
By: Shel Silverstein
All the Woulda-Coulda-Shoudas
Layin’ in the sun,
Talkin’bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done…
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did
44. OER and CC
-OER-
Open Educational Resources
FREE OPEN ONLINE!!!! For k12!
Creative Commons
The licensing you LOOK for when attributing course
content AND what you consider when creating
course content
46. 4 R’s of OER
• Reuse–copy verbatim
• Redistribute–share with others
• Revise–adapt and edit
• Remix–combine with others
• Constant opportunity to meet the needs of the learner
• http://www.slideshare.net/opencontent/why-be-open
48. Open Education – Don Taspscott
Tapscott speaks to many key issues in Open
Education –although he calls them – Four
“Principles” of the Open World.
1) Collaboration
2) Transparency
3) Intellectual Property
4) Empowerment
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1492
49. Open Instruction and Pedagogy
• Everyone there to learn together (no hierarchy)
• Teachers encouraged to connect with learners
• "Nodes" (Digital Learning areas) to interact and connect
with others outside of “regular” instruction
• Flipped Learning – Multimedia - UDL
• Content given in Digital Format
• Choice of Activities/Task – INQUIRY Based Learning
• Activities presented in open forum for feedback
• Competency Based Assessment/Badges/Dual Credit
• All activities presented using social media
51. Assessment
Assessment:
Created by: Jeremy Macdonald @MrMacnology
"Badge" System of Assessment - http://www.openbadges.org
Competency Based -
http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/iNACOL_FailureNotOption-web.pdf
Possibility for “Dual Credit” System if in Alberta
53. AB Framework for Student Learning
LITERACY
Entrepreneurial Spirit
NUMERACY
Engaged Thinker
Ethical Citizen
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision
Making
Creativity and Innovation
Social, Cultural, Global and Environmental
Responsibility
Communication
Digital and Technological Literacy
Lifelong Learning, Personal Management and Well-
being
Collaboration and Leadership
57. How to Become an Open Learner:
CONNECT:
1) Become a Connected Educator –Reread the 7
Stages of Connected Learning
2) Encourage your students to become, “Connected
Learners” – Start learning with them
3) Learn about social media – get on twitter and
follow people
4) Read other people’s blogs, start to create your
own
5) Join an Online Community like Classroom 2.0
58. How to Become an Open Learner:
COLLABORATE:
1. Start to link posts and answer the people you
follow on twitter. Create a Storify about your
conversation and share it.
2. Reply to people’s blogs, twitter questions and
in discussion posts in open educational
communities
3. Think about your Digital Identity Online –
and how to help and support others
4. Participate in open projects like Flat
Classroom or collaborate with another class
on skype or on a blog/Wiki
59. How to Become an Open Learner:
CREATE
Open Open Open
Courses Projects Interactions
Online Course – Open
to the world
Global Twitter Chats
Philosophy 12 Classroom Google
wiki Hangouts
Remix a Course, k12
2012-13 Educators Day
style #DS106
Classroom2.0
MOOCs – k12 style Open Online
#BeyondFacebook12 TheOC@ADLC
Webinars
60. Open Online Options
Starting Places:
Edmodo
Solid Open Platforms:
Blogs and Wikis
Consider:
Open LMS (Learning Management Systems)
Canvas, Coursesites, Google
CourseMaker, P2PU
65. What I have learned…..as an Open
Learnerearning....#1
• I can create an environment where all
participants felt "included“in some way
• We all like to be the examples – the most time
each day faciltating “open leanring” is finding
the examples and linking them for others to
see…
66. Verena's Learning #2
Participants can be beginners to advanced - I could to scaffold
options for new learners while challenging my advanced
learners. Open Learning naturally offer personalized learning
options
Participant mentors were asked to volunteer to MODEL, to write
comments anytime they saw something unanswered, to help me
moderate Blackboard sessions, Twitter, Netvibes, Google.docs
and various other tools. I encouraged others to lead in order to
help make the course sustainable for me.
67. VeVerena’s Learning #3Learning
#3
Student questions and teacher feedback seemed
"amplified" in an open online forum
I learned to accept that failure was possible, learn
from my mistakes and do my best.
Being authentic got me through and accepting that I
am a learner too!
68. What is the “take away” of open learning?will
you end with?
Collection of Learning Artifacts
• You will have a collection of resources based on a collaborative effort
• You will have developed leadership skills among your peers and ensured that
everyone is identified by their strengths
• You will have created the foundations for autonomous learning for all participants
which will offer them the opportunities outside of the school and/or district
69. Three Stings – Shel Silverstein
George got stung by a bee and said,
“ I wouldn’t have got stung if I’d stayed in bed.”
Fred got stung and we heard him roar,
“What am I being punished for?”
Lew got stung and we heard him say,
“I learned somethin’ about bees today.”