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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 17 Apr 11 - No Cached

are people confusing talking to people online with deep, connected learning? Does being part of a social networking site or a NING community mean you are going deep- growing  in your ability to co-construct or deconstruct knowledge? Does it mean you are collaborating if you post, reply to a post, Tweet, or engage in a #edchat conversation? Are we moving toward an acceptance of superficiality as a replacement for deep learning? Has our multiple choice  culture trained our brains to believe that innovation is the holy grail?
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If all I do is network I do not shift or grow because I am missing the opportunity to go deep and actually learn by doing. It takes both: Networks and Community. Online, global communities of practice and f2f learning communities in my local context.
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Imagine the deep learning that can be produced when we come together in learning communities and do some of the following (below).
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Action Research Groups: Active research done by communities of practice focused on improvement around a possibility or problem in a classroom, school, district, or province.
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Community of Practice (CoP): A CoP is group of professionals with shared interests and challenges who make a commitment to improve or get better at something over time by sharing ideas, finding solutions, and creating innovations. This requires new dispositions and values such as resisting the urge to quit prematurely.
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Book Study Groups: PLPeeps, often in cross cohort groups, come together to read and discuss a book collectively in an online space
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Connected Coaching: individuals on teams are assigned a connected coach who  discusses and shares teaching practices as a means of promoting collegiality and support and to help educators think about how the new literacies inform current teaching practices.
- Barbara Lindsey on 17 Apr 11
  
  Could you see this for your own ongoing practice and to implement in your own cops in the future?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Could you see this for your own ongoing practice and to implement in your own cops in the future?</div>
  
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- Barbara Lindsey on 17 Apr 11
  
  Could this form the foundation for the advanced course in BWCT?
  
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Instructional Rounds:
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Curriculum Review or Mapping Groups:
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Critical Friends Groups (CFG):
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Professional Learning Communities (PLC):
- Barbara Lindsey on 17 Apr 11
  
  Would this be something to implement while a TA to be able to document in a portfolio & bring to a job interview?
  
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Personal Learning Network (PLN):
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