The well-fermented outline: communicate clearly :) :) :)
See [[paragogy]] for other details about plans.
At a high level, we can ask ourselves: "Why do we want to write this paper?"
Goals for Meeting 2 28 March 2011 13:05h USA CT
- Charlie
- Cf. http://danoff.org/ledive/index.php?title=Paragogy_bibliography
- Connect learner autonomy & self-assessment paper to this paper.
- useful for evaluation ...
- learn to learn or learn to liberate? 18th and 19th century philosophy: Kant & Mill -- European idea of democratic society. Develop ability to play participatory role in democratic society. Can go even further back, Raphael's view of School of Athens gives a paragogical view. Andragogy (1970s).
- connect to learner profiles
- Cf.
- After Action Reviews
- Trading Journal
- Rubrics
- Connect Cognitive Surplus to this paper.
- reasons why the invisible college worked ... applying dominique fournier's "economics of knowledge" - knowledge is the most combinable thing we have http://tinyurl.com/economics-knowledge
- size of the (developer/user) community, cost of sharing, clarity of what gets shared, culture -- shared assumptions about how things should work; look at Wikipedia vs Wikiversity. Home not just to a valuable object, but also to a valuable object. Constant passionate discussions -> success.
- How to distinguish between passionate discussions Vs infighting/arguments/inertia?
- 1645: group of people living in London decided not to believe things that were not demonstrably true... (peers)... "nullus in verba": interest in results+methods (falsifiability); made progress that alchemists couldn't make because they talked and insisted on "openness" ("transmuted alchemy into chemistry") ... page 137
- Recipe for OER success?? ... page 141
- For us: ground our efforts in the history of academic work -- even if the online world feels like a "revolution" it's likely been done before... take a look at http://www.saylor.org/saylor-foundation-status/ for example (what percent complete? useful for students to use as a supplement for college-level material)... Could be mashed up with P2PU.
- P2PU -- cultures: hackers, educators make an invisible college in P2PU?
- climbing mount everest will always take same amunt of work, but it will become safer & accessible 4 people
- why is it difficult/easy to learn mathematics or a new language? Plato's "Meno" http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html lots of philosophical tracts about (philosophy of learning)... OK, e.g. Khan Academy == "people know how to learn mathematics if you don't get in their way!"... but there is some diversity about what works for whom. .... their message is a revision of the plato thing ... people know how 2 learn... but not useful to mock the status quo excessively (except for rhetorical purposes). easy trap for any young person ever (note i am being black/white in not mocking the old world when i just said i didn't want 2 be black/white ... sometimes tatefully mokcing stauts quo is oK)
- don't alienate anybody
- roles: someon's learning & someone's teaching (rug cleanrer not always necesasar) ... paragogy: make it les of a dichotomy, modelin it on idea of "prosumer" = blend of producer and consumer. (idea new? just phraising?) would adam smith believe most people do both of those things?
- yet in a lot of places it is a dichotomy: 3rd grader vs. teacher is not equal feeting (set up peer oriented for 3rd grade? e.g. online video games? WOW? no one knows you're a 3rd grader on the internet until you start asking where your mommy is etc.(note easy mistake for smart 3rd graders to avoid))
- What really works for learning/teaching?
- look at a few different scenarios, e.g. massive education, specialized topics, etc., blended learning to get people involved with whatever they feel like learning/doing with their free time.
- create & sustain public value governance defend against external & internal threats: "like the members of the apache project defending themselves against getting sidetracked by arguments or inertia"
- Joe: Do we have a guess now about what the 3 or 4 or 5 most relevant papers are going to be?
- Joe + Alex chapter about "roles" in education isn't a bad one...
- It might be easier to guess if we import and sort over all of the previous references in the various paragogy working drafts.
- Uncertainty Principle article done
***Goals for Meeting 3: 04 April 2011 13:05 USA CT ***
By or before this meeting, start making folders in the form of our outline on Zotero, and put references where they are relevant.
- Decide format for OKCon submission - research before hand what our options are.
- Make a short video about "What is Paragogy" (video should be used).
- http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media25163.pdf
- both might as well give a try: Read at least 3 papers from that Bauwens list (note hand slap for not doing it last week).
- food for thought:
Paragogy: Best practices for building best practices?
Connecting people to the things that are relevant, including from history, but also within their current peer group...
Peer group: Jesus & disciples trying to be relevant to people; disciples spreading the gospel (is kind of like paragogy); all the way up to missionaries.
- Donald A. McGavran, ‘My Pilgrimage in Mission’, International Bulletin of Missionary Research 10, no.2 (April 1986): 53-58, p. 54.
- http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/bigsort/archive/tags/Religion/default.aspx "How running a campaign is like building a megachurch"
- 1955 book, The Bridges of God == Joe should read
- think about what would be a good 45 second-ish video about paragogy as an introuction
- extra credit: make one (p2pu course
CRITERA FROM THE "CHAOS REPORT" - come up with some similar criteria for learning
1. User Involvement
2. Executive Management Support
3. Clear Statement of Requirements
4. Proper Planning
5. Realistic Expectations
6. Smaller Project Milestones
7. Competent Staff
8. Ownership
9. Clear Vision & Objectives
10. Hard-Working, Focused Staff
Goals for Meeting 4: 13 April 2011 USA CT
- formal outline done by end of meeting 3
- basic idea of the main papers/books we want to cite
- initial writing being done
Goals for Meeting 5: 20 April 2011 h USA CT
- first draft done and we can critique together ??
Goals for Meeting 6: 27 April 2011 h USA CT
- Finish submission for OKCon
Goals for Meeting 7: 4 May 2011 h USA CT
Goals for Meeting 8: 11 May 2011 h USA CT
Goals for Meeting 9: 18 May 2011 h USA CT
Goals for Meeting 10 25 May 2011 h USA CT
- Finish submission for HICSS
Abstract
Stick to the format that people are going to expect.
- Introduction
- WHY is this relevant? (Foreshadows the "vision", but this is not just a "vision paper"... so we should be concrete.)
- Why is it challenging? Basically this is just like 2 kids skip stones over a lake, but applied to skills that take longer to learn.
- P2PU as a case: "It should just work" (yeah, or yeah right?)
- Why isn't that always the case?
- Wikipedia as a case
- .... --> they all are having some difficulties and identity crises etc.
- What do we offer?: Introduce the main point in capsule form.
- Elaboration of ideas
- The Paragogical Principles
Body of the paper
- Connections to other theories
- -- literature stuff very up front about this stuff
- Learner autonomy and self-assessment -- references go way back see page 31 of the autonomy article.
- Means of implementing (learning analytics?)
- -- look at what methods apply
- The main point and key message
Conclusion
- Summing up the limitations
- -- places where we would turn to others for help etc.
- Our vision of how we'd like things to look in the future
- Synthesis of limitations and vision
- -- the new state of the art (avant garde)!
- References (this is where we are now)
Another possible outline to merge in with what's below
Why would we need a new theory of p2p learning?
- to find and enjoy the benefits of peer production (where they exist)
- because peer learning doesn't always work very well
How would we use this theory?
- course design and lesson planning
- direct administrative efforts into suitable paths
What makes an effective context?
- one in which participants have a serious stake in the outcomes
How do the "paragogical principles" come into it?
- TBA
How does this relate to other theories (ESR, Polya, Knowles)?
- TBA
How does organisational learning relate?
- TBA
How does the typical "long tail" of those less involved relate?
- TBA
How do we validate the theory?
- Need to assess real peer learning experiences -- the principles can themselves be used as a framework for evaluation! -- after that then they we can consider a secondary evaluation of the principles themselves
What contexts won't work well? What are reasons why the math courses at P2PU seem to have failed again, for example?
How can readers participate in building/shaping this theory?
- Update the Wikiversity pages about the project
After refactoring and some further improvements:
- 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
- someone asking someone for advice? What is going on there and how could it evolve?
- Why do we need something like this?
- Inspirations for paragogy
- Paragogy compared with andragogy & with pedagogy (c.f. http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/cle3.html ) (esp. b/c we can build off 200+ years of literature)
- 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?
- Compare to autodidacticism and purely self-directed learners, Thoreau, etc.
- somewhere in there, there's some community aspect
- Paragogy and basho
- Sarvodaya Shramadana movement
- Spirit of the OER movement (Capetown Declaration)
- Who will benefit from this, and how
- What does it look like when it's happening? What activities are involved?
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- People should be learning stuff!!!
- People should not give a fuck about doing so.
- 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
- enabling/awakening the massive lifelong learner currently dormant in society (compare to newspaper readers, book club members, all that kind of stuff)
- Compare classifieds and craigslist
- 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
- becoming a computer programmer as a pre-req to japanese is too hard .. also great book is not enough,
- spirit of OER (maybe http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration) not re-build same things over a gain... but not about things, also about people ... great
- 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)
- 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.
- You need all the right ingredients or it only sorta works.
- compare this with wataching Adult Swim ...(they didn't have TV back then...) downloading information ... what's the diff btw adult swim, newspaper, & 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
- tue night: mozart concert or chemistry experiment ...
- Condensed points on "implementing paragogy" - to feed into Joe's lesson plan for Week 2-5 cf [[implementing-paragogy]].
- 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
- clear expectations and detailed plans help a lot - they give people a sense of structure -- and the clear expectations can help establish "buy-in".
- question: how do you get people to "buy-in" ? is there a magic formula?
- if it doesn't work, then P2PU can be someone's failed new year's resolution
- 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)
- 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
- We can compare examples that are working well and other examples (e.g. Charlie or Marisa courses vs Joe courses...)
- Polya, Eric Raymond, and Knowles points of view on teaching/doing and compare these
- Put something about institutional learning in here
- 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
- Or maybe something other than a course - it could be some other type of learning setting
- Paragogy: a theory of peer-based teaching and learning
- Definition, incl:
- Paragogy and Peer Production (short)
- 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...)
- how can an instructor create a learning environment with this style?
- Note: in some cases "totally peer based" or "totally peer produced" may not be the most appropriate style.
- old form of eduction old ppl tell young ppl how life is like
- that is appropriate for somethings, but there is also an alternative ... you can learn comp programming from younger ppl
- The principles reviewed (once, not two or more times)
- Context as a decentered center.
- peer production aspects,learning analytics aspects, etc., and treat these same aspects in the next sections, as appropriate...
- Meta-learning as a font of knowledge.
- explain here once and for all...
- Peers are equals, but different.
- Learning is distributed and nonlinear.
- Realize the dream, then wake up!
- 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
- PAST
- Collborative Lesson Planning
- DIY Math
- PRESENT: What will it look like in our particular case(s)?
- Collborative Lesson Planning again
- Calculus, Math for Game Designers
- Open Governance and Learning
- Next Steps
- blog posts about ideas? - One is up now at http://hyperreal-enterprises.posterous.com/paragogy-paper.
- implement paragogy into p2pu syllabi
- feed back to "this" document to expand the ideas (we should have a working space to continue)
- 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
- upload the Latex-generated PDF version to wikiversity for vanity
- try to integrate the results into a more suitable place on wikiversity where more people will see it ... http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Media_Files#PDF_files
- Potential Implications for Paragogy
- Structure of courses and educational experiences can and should exist (in the paper we talk about switching between vertical and horizontal modes of organization)
- Paragogy and Learning Analytics (short)
- Evaluating paragogy (how to test it out?)
- 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!
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 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 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College ... ppl lack of imagination
- Icanhazcheezeburger, Apache, CNN ~~~ "There is no one size fits all set of rules."
- defend against external (e.g. fraud on ebay) and internal threats (e.g. in-fighting -- arguments and inertia -- within Apache)
"Peer-learning" takes place in conditions where the learning context is open to examination, discussion and change; in particular, learners can individually or collectively study and critique the learning process; peer learners treat one another in an egalitarian fashion; in particular, the learning pathway isn't dictated by anyone, but rather discovered. In such a setting, learners are able to get what they came for (or figure out why that's impossible).