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Triangulating Our Professional Development: Learning from Adjacent Practices
Nancy WhiteFull Circle Associates
7009 23rd Ave NESeattle, WA 98115
206-517 4754 - [email protected] ://www.fullcirc.comSession Materials Wiki:
http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Triangulating+for+Professional+Development
All materials in this session are Creative Commons, Attribution license
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Three Agenda Items
• How do we learn as professionals? (and a thought about connections)
• Situating our learning in the context of adjacent professions and skills (aka “transdisciplinarity”)
• Networked professional development (aka “triangulation”)
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A POINT OF DEPARTURE… SUMMER ‘09
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HOW DO YOU LEARN ABOUT
YOUR PROFESSION?
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CONTEXT, POWER & PERSPECTIVE
Disciplinary knowledge (university, formal programs)Experiential knowledge (practice, formal, informal)
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Caveat:Context, Power & Perspective
Where/field of work
Who holds the power
The diverse views
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“… be sure they can answer these questions: Why am I learning this? How is it relevant to the world I live in now?” (Drive, Dan Pink)
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CONTEXT, POWER & PERSPECTIVE
Disciplinary knowledge (university, formal programs)Experiential knowledge
Adjacent knowledge
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TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
Discovery….
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Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that
crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity
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CONNECTION:Paired Drawing…
Bridging….
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“ADJACENT” PRACTICES
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Knowledge Workers
Visual ArtistsVisual Artists
Project ManagersProject Managers
What is adjacent to your work?
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“ADJACENT”
DISCOVERY…
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Host
Counselor
Facilitator
Designer
Writer
Program Mgr
Dispute Resolution
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Program Mgr
Facilitator
Counselor
Host
Designer
Writer
Dispute Resolution
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Dispute Resolution
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WHAT IS TRIANGULATION, ANYWAY?
So… we never got to the material from here down, so I’ve typed in a few cryptic notes in the slide notes area!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/267705194/
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Alone... isolated
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Hopefulness…support
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External Validation
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How?
• External support person(s)
• Learning Connection to a domain-
related network or community
• Intentional external validation
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What are useful networked learning strategies?
• Network tools• Network practices• Identity
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/3582297307/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/intersectionconsulting/4412472230/
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What are useful networked learning strategies?
• Network tools• Network practices• Identity
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Social ecosystem
getting to know
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Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235
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Social ecosystem
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Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235
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Social ecosystem
• Distributed conversations
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Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235
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Social ecosystem
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Lilia Efimova http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/10.html#a1235
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What are useful networked learning strategies?
• Network tools• Network practices
• Identity
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Identity!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauri_lama/3039881498/
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Our notes and photos of drawings/flipcharts are here: http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Triangulating+for+Professional+Development
I’ll add the post it notes when John sends them around!
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Photo Credits: Thanks to Lilia Efimova,Roland, Open Democracy, Mr. Thomas, [Henning], onkel_wart, illustrious bean and Mathemagenic for sharing their Creative Commons on Flickr.com•http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/1472273440/http://www.flickr.com/photos/opendemocracy/267705194/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathemagenic/4014282560/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/illustriousbean/571630048/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/onkel_wart/2487637968/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/muehlinghaus/240944635/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/exalthim/2063912337/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/40344973/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauri_lama/3039881498
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/3582297307/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/intersectionconsulting/4412472230
Nancy can be found at
http://www.fullcirc.com
http://www.Twitter.com/NancyWhite
Nancyw at fullcirc dot com