Creating effective learning in the Social Age Julian Stodd BSc (hons) MA Captain at SeaSalt Learning
Aug 19, 2015
Creating effective learning in the Social Age
Julian Stodd BSc (hons) MA !
Captain at SeaSalt Learning
Effective Learning in the Social Age!!Learning is changing: facilitated by technology, driven by changes in the ways we work, live and play. In this session we'll be exploring the ecosystem of the Social Age and looking at a methodology for how people learn that we can apply across every channel.!!
• Exploring how the ecosystem of the Social Age impacts on organisational learning!!• The evolving nature of work: remote working, the death of the office, social collaborative technology!!• The social contract: understanding how our relationship with organisations is adapting and issues of trust and change that impact on this!!• Knowledge and learning: exploring how knowledge is no longer enough. What we have to do is create meaning, to be effective.!!• Methodology for learning: exploring how we can anchor everything against a learning methodology - context, demonstration, exploration, reflection, assessment and
footsteps.!!• Exploring how this is applied across different learning modalities: face to face, technology enabled, social, mobile etc!!• Exploring the benefits of this type of holistic approach!!!
Happy to provide free copies of these books that may be relevant:!!Julian Stodd's learning methodology [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/384181]!Exploring the World of Social Learning [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/204432]
The Social Age• The semi formal layers that surround the formal
• Supported by communities: constantly connected
• Facilitated by technology: effortlessly
• An evolved nature of work and play
• Beyond knowledge: it's about creating meaning
The Social Age
• What is different about your social life than from 10 years ago?
• What is different about your work from ten years ago?
• What is different about how you learn from 10 years ago?
What does the organisation give you?
• Technology - but is it agile? Is it a mechanism of control?
• Space - but do you need it? Do the walls constrain you?
• Community - but you have your own. What's it's purpose?
• Structure - codified knowledge: but is it up to date?
Our evolving relationship with knowledge
• In the old world: knowledge was power
• In the Social Age, power comes through reputation and sharing, humility and community
• Roles are contextual: we are adaptable
• We need to utilise knowledge to create meaning
What have you got?• Facebook
• Shazam
• Google Maps
• A game
• A railway timetable
• Photos
• Music
What have you got?• Facebook - community, sharing, collaboration, cohesion
• Twitter - sharing, news, highly curated
• Mail - sharing, volume, formal?
• Shazam - identifying, capturing, sharing, learning
• Google Maps - functional, performance enhancing, external knowledge
• A game - distracting, competing, networked
• A railway timetable - knowledge, performance enhancing, just in time
• Photos - capturing, narrating, sharing
• Music - entertaining, cohesive
How does your organisation use knowledge?
• To inform
• To control
• To do things
• To create transparency
• To build tribal capability
• To earn money
How does your organisation control knowledge
• Through technology
• Through elders
• Through physical constraints
• Through geography
• Through mindset
• Through formal heirarchy
Does your organisation have formal communities?
• Were they put in place by the organisation or emergent from the community?
• Are they used to broadcast or co-create?
• Who owns them?
• Are you on top of issues of privacy and permanence?
Authenticity• We are experts at spotting authenticity
• Only authentic tones of voice generate engagement
• Curiosity
• Humility
• Recognises everyday reality
Reputation
• The Social Age is a Reputation economy
• We can't rely on our positional authority for social learning
Exercise: create your framework for moderation
• What is your stance?
• What is your tone of voice?
• Where will your authority come from?
• How does this fit within the social contract?
• Will you share this with your learners or co-create it with them?
• Are you prepared, as an organisation, to reframe?
• 8 week scaffolded experience
• Gateways are calls
• Structured by 4 Q's a section
• Social space for collaboration
• Group narrative shared through blog
Example of Scaffolding
• 5 week scaffolded experience
• Learners seek out experiences within the scaffolding
• They quantify what they find
• The community carries out the 'sense making'
Example of Scaffolding
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