{"id":288,"date":"2012-03-12T19:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2012-03-12T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:28:24","slug":"sahana-at-edgex-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/sahana-at-edgex-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahana Chattopadhyay at EdgeX 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instructional Designer, Sahana Chattopadhyay\u00a0 shared her experience with on-line learning and connectivism in a presentation that was chock-full of quotable quotes. I can\u2019t find them any where else, so here are some I\u2019ve transcribed. Watch the full presentation at http:\/\/www.aurusnet.com\/index.php?r=lecture\/view&id=10177<\/a><\/p>\n

(Twitter @sahana2802<\/a> Blog http:\/\/idreflections.blogspot.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sahana\u2019s initial reactions were:
\n\u201cThe more I interacted, the more confident I became.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019ve never felt so alive. I\u2019m so much a learner. It was more like an adventure\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned how being connected and being part of a network can help me learn from the experiences of others – stuff that I just could not do alone anymore. And I realized it was not important for me to know everything – I just didn\u2019t have to – I just needed to reach out to my network, connect with them, and that would help me solve my challenges – a large number of them at least. If not we could always talk to each other and devise new ways of doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning to be\u201d is about full participation, about becoming a true contributing member of a community of practice, learning together and contributing to the growth of that knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday in the globalized, distributed, but connected world that we live in, apprenticeship is being replaced by virtual communities of practice, interest groups and networks. Learning from the experience of others has never before been this easy, and never before so important and so critical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moderator Viplav Baxi\u00a0<\/a> asked her to speak to her motivation in on-line learning. Sahana said she stumbled upon #lrnchat- and spent her time at first lurking to identify behaviour patterns, \u201csome of the norms of the community which (are not) stated up front, sort of emerged.\u201d She then began interacting one-on-one with other members of the #lrnchat group – this helped her become a \u201cmore intimate participant later\u201d. She says that, in any community, you may move from being a lurker to the center and then to a lurker again depending on what the community is discussing at that time – and what\u2019s important for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Q: Was adapting to a new way of learning an easy thing, or was it difficult?
\nA: \u201cLearning explicitly or implicitly leads to a behaviour change. If I learn something, my behaviour changes, and if that happens I don\u2019t think it can be a very easy thing. Because at the end of the day I change the way I interact \u2026 What helped was seeing other people going through the same change.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the desirability of building learning networks & collaborative learning:
\n\u201cNo amount of teacher training schools will address all the problems that we have today unless teachers themselves also think that we have to learn and grow all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

A reporter asked, \u201cWhat are the challenges, if any, of managing people on an informal level thorough social media by just being a part of it?\u201d
\nSahana replied, \u201cRather than trying to manage, if we can inspire people or make people want to learn, or make people want to just converse, I think that is the first step. If people start to talk, and if similarly passionate and similarly interested people get together and talk, learning is bound to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgex2012 schedule<\/a> at http:\/\/www.edgex.in\/schedule.html
\nOther recordings and Live view while in session: http:\/\/www.aurusnet.com\/index.php?r=course\/view&id=357<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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