Second Nature

“SECOND NATURE”

Extending Learning and Dialogue in the Blogosphere

http://secondnature.pbwiki.com/http://learningasconversation.blogspot.com

....that’s what jazz is all about, is a dialogue or

answering one another.

--Dave Brubeck

“Conversation is at once the most ordinary and most profound of human activities.  It is ubiquitous, ever present, and all around us.  In its many forms-- face to face, telephone, among written texts, or in cyberspace-- conversation is a process of interpreting and understanding human experience.  This conversational sense-making can be describe as a process of experiential learning, the roots of which go back to the works Dewey, Lewin, Piaget, James, Vygotsky and Freire...  ” 

--Conversational Learning: An Experiential Approach to Knowledge Creation, Baker, Jensen and Kolb, 2002

Our Goals?

• Enjoy meaningful conversations• Examine the potential of learning as

conversation• Explore and participate in professional

conversations• Examine strategies and benefits for

student conversations• Explore and participate in student

conversations http://flickr.com/photos/firewarrior/180546141/

Reflection on Blogging

“Take Five”--Benefits

Global Audience

“Take Five”--Benefits

Encourage deeper thinking

“Take Five”--Benefits

Connect students

“Take Five”--Benefits

Offer teachable moments

“Take Five”--Benefits

Improve writing

“Take Five”--Benefits

Motivate

Did you have fun at the party or were you waiting for your parents to stop

talking and take you home?

Wow! My dog had puppies too. She had them in our barn though. I think your blog

is great. .. Did you keep Nike..?

Lyndsey had some really deep stuff here…I'm glad that this podcast allows us to hear

the emotions of people ..

Awesome job guys! There's great use of mathematical terms. ..

... would be helpful on tests and exams.

The words you used .. made me feel the horrors of slavery.

.. you helped me feel the agony of slavery.

Your brief post shows how smart you are; too smart to pay any attention to someone

else's hurtful comments. ..

“For All Time”--Nurturing and Guiding

Scaffold

Nurture

“For All Time”--Nurturing and Guiding

Guide

Model

Discuss

“For All Time”--Art of Commenting

Respectful

Understanding

Celebratory

Validating

“For All Time”--Art of Commenting

Safely

Using cues

“For All Time”—Art of Commenting

Positive

As a role model

School appropriate

Questioning

“The Crossing”—Comment Starters

This made me think about.......  I wonder why.......  

I wish I understood why.......

“The Crossing”—Comment Starters

I wonder—

You made me think--

I wish I understood--

I can relate to this-- From Anne Davis

“Time Out”—Inappropriate Comments

“Teachable moments…. Grab them and then move on….”

--Anne Davis

“Time Out”—Inappropriate

Comments

A reflection upon the commenter not the blogger

“Time Out”—Inappropriate Comments

A Plan of Action

“In Your Own Sweet Way”—Types of Comments

Voicethread, PodcastsWritten, Slidecasts

“Who Will Take Care of Me?”—A Safe Place to Blog

David Warlick’s

Blogmeister

“Pennies from Heaven”—Good Commenters

Retired Teachers

Civic or Church Groups

Pre-service students

Parents

“Second Nature”—

When comments become second nature they foster incredible learning through meaningful dialogue --

What sweet music!

“Second Nature”—Credits and Thanks

Anne Davis and Darren Kuropatwa

Commenters in the blogosphere

Dave Brubeck for his dialogues and titles and his sons who illustrated that jazz, the dialogue, is

second nature in their CD by that name

Photo credits may be found at http://secondnature.pbwiki.com/