Beth Kanter writes, "Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this:
- Transparent: ... make learning products visible
- Emergence: ... signaling to your networks
- Engage: ... having a conversation around the insights
- Co-Create: ... the conversations lead to co-creation."
I liked the illustration that accompanies the article, but the proposed scaffold needs work. The word 'emergence' is used incorrectly, for example. But more, the model seems more to be a marketing model than a learning model. What is it to engage, for example? It's more than just "having a conversation" - we could talk about conversation models, like SWOT, or conversation metrics, and more. But more importantly, participation in a conversation is the act of creation, even co-creation, and we want to talk about that (in ways that do not entail that all creation be co-creation, because then it's impossible to have a conversation).
But more to the point of the post, what is the scaffolding for learning in public? What is the pedagogy of open online learning - or of learning in general? It's popular to think of a hierarchy, or of stages, or of a process, or some such thing. But my own thinking more and more focuses on multiple simultaneous activities based on the six critical literacies (as always, the taxonomy is a a guide, not a definition), as depicted below, keeping in mind that the 'languages' can be anything, including 'editing', 'creating', 'sharing' and the like:
- Transparent: ... make learning products visible
- Emergence: ... signaling to your networks
- Engage: ... having a conversation around the insights
- Co-Create: ... the conversations lead to co-creation."
I liked the illustration that accompanies the article, but the proposed scaffold needs work. The word 'emergence' is used incorrectly, for example. But more, the model seems more to be a marketing model than a learning model. What is it to engage, for example? It's more than just "having a conversation" - we could talk about conversation models, like SWOT, or conversation metrics, and more. But more importantly, participation in a conversation is the act of creation, even co-creation, and we want to talk about that (in ways that do not entail that all creation be co-creation, because then it's impossible to have a conversation).
But more to the point of the post, what is the scaffolding for learning in public? What is the pedagogy of open online learning - or of learning in general? It's popular to think of a hierarchy, or of stages, or of a process, or some such thing. But my own thinking more and more focuses on multiple simultaneous activities based on the six critical literacies (as always, the taxonomy is a a guide, not a definition), as depicted below, keeping in mind that the 'languages' can be anything, including 'editing', 'creating', 'sharing' and the like:
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