User:Arided/ParagogyPaper/Feb 3 Mtg

Lead-In (more to grab people's attention and give them a reason to listen to you, obtusely connect to main thrust of lesson)PICK ONE:sri lanka ppl quote?hungry ghosts?ESR? Polya? Introduction<li>someone asking someone for advice? What is going on there and how could it evolve?</li ><li>Why do we need something like this?</li ><li>Inspirations for paragogy<ul><li>Paragogy compared with andragogy &amp; with pedagogy (c.f. <a href="http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/cle3.html">http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/cle3.html</a> ) (esp. b/c we can build off 200+ years of literature)<ul><li>There should somewhere be a bigger theory that contains all of these things - paragogy doesn't have to be that theory, but maybe it can shed some light on it. ... or be the theory?</li></ul ></li ><li>Compare to autodidacticism and purely self-directed learners, Thoreau, etc.<ul><li>somewhere in there, there's some community aspect</li></ul ></li ><li>Paragogy and basho</li ><li>Sarvodaya Shramadana movement</li ><li>Spirit of the OER movement (Capetown Declaration)</li></ul ></li ><li>Who will benefit from this, and how<ul><li>P2PU by giving a name to the process they've been trying to achieve</li ><li>Wikiversity e.g. in this course: <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_resources">http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_resources</a></li ><li>any person wanting to learn this'll give them some theory/academic authority that it's OK to learn informally and that it's a valid use of their time just like going back to school</li ><li>works both on and offline</li></ul ></li ><li>'''What does it look like when it's happening? What activities are involved?'''<ul><li>How do people bring up their issues/feedback/ideas in a way that works for them and others? Well, this should work well, but it doesn't happen automatically. Paragogy should help explain how to make it work better.<ul><li>and in a sense that's like editing wikipedia is really easy and constructive, so their voices aren't lost but are somehow building something</li></ul ></li ><li>The feedback process needs to take people and their personalities into account - or something like that. Makes people feel like they're being listened to and ideas brought into a discussion with possible actions as a result. (intersects with or points to the open governance stuff)</li ><li>People should be learning stuff!!!<ul><li>People should not give a fuck about doing so.</li ><li>IT SHOULD BE FUN! This is an alternative to the 4th night a week going to the bar, you can still go 3 times and get laid but this one night doing OER/paragogy will be good</li ><li>enabling/awakening the massive lifelong learner currently dormant in society (compare to newspaper readers, book club members, all that kind of stuff)</li ><li>Compare classifieds and craigslist</li></ul ></li ><li>There's also this "organizational learning" component so that e.g. places like P2PU or Wikiversity or PlanetMath or etc., start to actually work the way the users want, and.. making it accessible for much less internet savvy to join<ul><li>becoming a computer programmer as a pre-req to japanese is too hard .. also great book is not enough, </li></ul ></li ><li>spirit of OER (maybe <a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration)">http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration)</a> not re-build same things over a gain... but not about things, also about people ... great</li ><li>some kid in Somalia can learn astrophysics talking to a professor in norway and a geek in rural japan and the homemaker in new york city plus maybe a tutor from MIT (optional)<ul><li>what seems to be missing or not quite sorted out is how this will really work for different topics, like astrophysics or mathematics, or etc.</li ><li>You need all the right ingredients or it only sorta works.</li></ul ></li ><li>compare this with wataching Adult Swim ...(they didn't have TV back then...) downloading information ... what's the diff btw adult swim, newspaper, &amp; bar ... vs. someone who tutors @ library/book club/ P2PU and .. putting that out there as an alternative choice to socialization ... incept this idea into universal uncounscious sometimes learning is a good idea, sometimes not<ul><li>tue night: mozart concert or chemistry experiment ... <br /></li></ul ></li></ul ></li ><li>Condensed points on "implementing paragogy" - to feed into Joe's lesson plan for Week 2-5 cf implementing-paragogy.<ul><li>Create a course where you can lead by example -- maybe around something you'd be doing anyway, or something you can do if even only one or two others are intereste</li ><li>clear expectations and detailed plans help a lot - they give people a sense of structure -- and the clear expectations can help establish "buy-in".<ul><li>question: how do you get people to "buy-in" ? is there a magic formula?<ul><li>if it doesn't work, then P2PU can be someone's failed new year's resolution"</li ><li>what is an example of buy-in working? regular universities, e.g. University of Minnesota? Yes .. why? commitment on both ends (student and teacher) for understood outcome (degree)</li ><li>non-working: possibly compare to "Slacktivism" (we could use the word "Slackademic")  (like!) ... just talking the talk w/o walking the walk ... not walking the talk</li></ul ></li ><li>We can compare examples that are working well and other examples (e.g. Charlie or Marisa courses vs Joe courses...)</li></ul ></li ><li>Polya, Eric Raymond, and Knowles points of view on teaching/doing and compare these</li ><li>Put something about institutional learning in here</li ><li>Ask people going through the lesson plan to DO SOMETHING (45 minute class with a participatory activity in there) for example, work together to design a course that implements the things we've talked about <br /></li></ul ></li></ul ></li ><li>Paragogy: a theory of peer-based teaching and learning<ul><li>Definition, incl:</li ><li>Paragogy and Peer Production (short)</li ><li>Instructors tend to ask people to produce something during a course. It is possible to ask people to do "peer production" and make something together - in some sense of the word. we can find ex's in academic literature of this to build off ourselves (e.g spain physics paper...)</li ><li>how can an instructor create a learning environment with this style?<ul><li>Note: in some cases "totally peer based" or "totally peer produced" may not be the most appropriate style.</li ><li>old form of eduction old ppl tell young ppl how life is like<ul><li>that is appropriate for somethings, but there is also an alternative ... you can learn comp programming from younger ppl <br /></li></ul ></li></ul ></li></ul ></li ><li>The principles reviewed (once, not two or more times)<ul><li>Context as a decentered center.<ul><li>peer production aspects,learning analytics aspects, etc., and treat these same aspects in the next sections, as appropriate...</li></ul ></li ><li>Meta-learning as a font of knowledge.<ul><li>explain here once and for all...</li></ul ></li ><li>Peers are equals, but different.</li ><li>Learning is distributed and nonlinear.</li ><li>Realize the dream, then wake up! <br /></li></ul ></li ><li>'''Paragogy in Practice: show how it's actually useful for what we wanted it to be useful for! ... be careful not to be like history written by the victors and inscribe these ideas what were doing b4 as if we always aware'''<ul><li>PAST<ul><li>Collborative Lesson Planning</li ><li>DIY Math</li></ul ></li ><li>PRESENT: What will it look like in our particular case(s)?<ul><li>Collborative Lesson Planning again</li ><li>Calculus, Math for Game Designers</li ><li>Open Governance and Learning</li></ul ></li></ul ></li ><li>Next Steps<ul><li>blog posts about ideas? - One is up now at <a href="http://hyperreal-enterprises.posterous.com/paragogy-paper">http://hyperreal-enterprises.posterous.com/paragogy-paper</a>.</li ><li>implement paragogy into p2pu syllabi<ul><li>feed back to "this" document to expand the ideas (we should have a working space to continue)</li></ul ></li ><li>wikignoming in the 1st version of the paper so that it looks good and so other people can add to it and improve the paper<ul><li>upload the Latex-generated PDF version to wikiversity for vanity</li></ul ></li ><li>try to integrate the results into a more suitable place on wikiversity where more people will see it ... <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Media_Files#PDF_files">http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Media_Files#PDF_files</a> <br /></li></ul ></li ><li>Potential Implications for Paragogy<ul><li>Structure of courses and educational experiences can and should exist (in the paper we talk about switching between vertical and horizontal modes of organization)</li ><li>Paragogy and Learning Analytics (short)</li ><li>Evaluating paragogy (how to test it out?)<ul><li>The main criticism from our previous reviewers was that the theory was "untested" -- so let's see what we can do to come up with a strategy for testing it! <br /></li></ul ></li></ul ></li ><li>Acknowledgments</li ><li>References<ul><li>Clay Shirky: Cognitive surplus - invisible college (p2p seems to work well, but why/how?) ... Invisible College was doing peer 2 peer learning ... but didn't have theory ... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College</a> ... ppl lack of imagination <br /> <br /> <br /></li></ul ></li></ul >