EDPB 530 - Social Learning

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EDPB 530

SOCIAL LEARNING

Up to 300 XP

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Optional Engagement in Acquiring Points for :

A combination of reflection, resource sharing, and support for the learning of others. The point system provides a simple type of structural gamification.

As you will see below, this optional course aspect has you earn points for assisting in the learning of others, posting, commenting on the posts of others, and sharing thoughts and resources through social media.

How and Where will SL1 Occur?

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For most students, the majority of Social Learning sharing and discourse occurs as posting and commenting in our Workspace (GWFE) SPACES, but points can also be earned using other means, such as:

Social media (Twitter, Facebook,...),
Being of service to others in the course (F2F or online support),
Being of service to others in the university,
Doing anything that supports the learning of others in the university,
Resource Sharing

Points

How many points can you earn in a semester?

Up to 300 points

How many points should you claim?

Our basic formula is one Social Learning point per minute of focused work.

Example: You read an Edutopia article for 15 minutes and decided to add a post to your cohort SPACES. It takes you about 20 minutes to write an introduction to the article and post some questions for possible discussion. You may claim 35 points.

Later, you see that folks have been commenting on your post. You read their comments, and decide to respond to some of the comments. This takes you 25 minutes. Claim another 25 points. (Note that reading the comments counts as focused time on task and is claimable.)

Caveat

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Anything you do for Social Learning points CANNOT be part of a class assignment or activity - It must be above and beyond all assignments and activities unless specifically stated by Avi.

Example of what you CANNOT USE: If you are working on a project together and are meeting and working together on the project. When working together on a project, it is expected that you will meet and work together; this is part of the project work.

But, you CAN USE: If you are working together on a project, have decided to create a video, and as a result, one team member is teaching another team member how to record video and how to edit video. To Avi, this seems above and beyond what was assigned and can be claimed.

CANNOT USE: We are in class and you are helping another student with Web design as part of a class activity. Helping each other is part of the expectation of the classes and is not "above and beyond" an assignment or activity.

CAN USE: You are helping another student with Web design during a break or lunch or some other time.

This doesn't feel right!

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From Avi:

I will sometimes hear comments about issues with receiving course credit by helping others. Many folks help others out of the goodness of their hearts... it is just their way of doing things and it feels "wrong" to then claim points.

I get it. We want our motivations to be intrinsic... especially when in comes to helping others.

Consider:

Let's pretend I was one of my students and I was struggling with my Tracker. If you offered me help I would be immensely grateful. But I would worry that you are giving so much of your time to me in a program that is extremely challenging and time-consuming. If I know that you can claim your time helping me for course credit, then that might help my conscience somewhat and alleviate some anxiety about taking your time.

When you serve the learning community by supporting the learning experiences of others, I would like to honour that by allowing you to claim some of that time for course credit. It is much like "Secret Lair", which you will learn about shortly. Secret Lair allows you to claim course credit for taking care of yourself. That's right. Earn course credit by taking care of yourself. More on that later.

Social Learning and Secret Lair are my way of encouraging some of the behaviours we would like to see in a beginning teacher.

Don't like it?

No problem. You don't have to do it. Both Social Learning and Secret Lair are optional ways to earn course credit.

Social Media Option

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Some protocols and advice.

What should you post?

PLEASE NOTE: Posts do not need to be about technology integration.

Links to research | articles | books | sites | Blog posts | Technologies, or any resource you have found which is helping you develop your Credo (Frame of Reference) or might help others develop theirs.
Thoughts | conversation starters around education concepts | philosophies | observations...
Links to resources | tools you have found that might be useful in the classroom (with thoughts regarding how...)

Commenting is Wonderful

Respond thoughtfully to the posts of others.
Keep the conversations going.
Comment often (There is nothing like getting a comment on your post. Not getting a comment on your post is a bit deflating. In fact, you can acquire all of the Social Learning points just by commenting on the posts of others... see note below.)

Feel free to focus on your preferred means of acquiring points. For example: If you feel you are better at making thoughtful comments on the posts of others, and you wish to have that as your sole means of acquiring points, then that is fine. It is wonderful to have a post become a good conversation. What if you ended up being the "go to" person for helping folks with Web Design or with video production or... You can base your whole Social Learning XP on helping people in areas of expertise.

Claiming Social Learning XP

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