Learning is Change

Web 2.0 tools are unreliable at best and unavailable at worst. They don’t work the way they did last week because of their constant feature updates. They don’t allow for us to own many of the things we create either. They are, in fact, the worst tools for collaboration that exist, except for everything else that we have tried.

This video makes the case that despite their shortcoming, Read/Write tools are the best way to create and share our work and realize Authentic Learning environments.

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What should you do with those who are specifically anti-change, who will use false-negatives in order to try and stop movement on what you are trying to do? How should you go about shifting the conversation from miniature failures to the broader call for successful change?

Seriously, I’m asking.

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I took a moment yesterday to reflect upon just how happy I am with a longer commute that gives me the ability to consider the challenges that lay before me. I intentionally parked further away to extend that reflection time. It was wonderful.

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A teammate posed this question: What are the implications of not doing Blended Learning right? It really got me thinking abut the harm we can inflict by not having the right vision or being able to fully execute on that vision. Even with good intentions, are we still inflicting harm on an overloaded system if we don’t do it "right."

I pose the idea that the harm is in False-Momentum. But, how do we combat this?

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The humble status update has become something of a joke. We do dozens of them a day and we let them pass by without any concern for building something new out of them. We should take our time with them, and reflect before we write them. We will make the future of Status Updates because it is an important way of telling our stories into being.

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Joe Dillon did a great reflection on how Open Invitations have led to his understanding of Open Education, and I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into this concept of an Open Invitation. It is my thought that the three elements of an invitation are the Ask, The Story and The Person (doing the asking).

So, what are you asking for, what is the story you are telling, and how are you presenting yourself in your own Open Invitations.

Joe’s Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsI4jGw412Q

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Learning and Community Milestones are very real, and they happen with increasing frequency as we become more connected and involve ourselves in better conversations. However, I am at a loss for how to celebrate these milestones and not have them be able to the numbers or metrics that so often are the reason we recognize the milestone at all. For example, I now have 3000 Twitter followers. What does that mean, and how should we celebrate that fact?

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While I don’t think that it is quite as rigid as the Order of Operations in math, I think that there is a better "order" for learning that creates authentic experiences. But, I’m not entirely sure what the best order is.

What is the best order of operations for your learning environment?

Darren’s Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7SsRBZsuI

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Thank you so much to everyone in the community that helped me to become the Director of Blended Learning in Denver Public Schools. I will be taking you all with me on this journey.

Our first task together: What are the questions I should be asking to each person I meet in DPS? What should I learn from them in the first 90 days?

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