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Communities of Practice that are Working

Communities of Practice that are Working. Welcome. Mark Guzdial (Georgia Inst. of Technology) Steve Weimar (Drexel University) Neil Brown (University of Kent, UK) Shay Pokress (MIT Media Lab) Lisa Henry (Brookfield High School, Ohio) Moderator: Nathaniel Titterton (U.C. Berkeley).

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Communities of Practice that are Working

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  1. Communities of Practice that are Working

  2. Welcome Mark Guzdial (Georgia Inst. of Technology) Steve Weimar (Drexel University) Neil Brown (University of Kent, UK) Shay Pokress (MIT Media Lab) Lisa Henry (Brookfield High School, Ohio) Moderator: Nathaniel Titterton (U.C. Berkeley)

  3. The Disciplinary Commons Mark Guzdial

  4. Disciplinary Commons Group of educators from diverse institutions who teach within the same subject area meeting monthly over an academic year. In monthly increments, the participants prepare a course portfolio. Goals • To document and share knowledge about student learning in Computer Science classrooms. • To establish practices for the scholarship of teaching by making it public, peer-reviewed, and amenable for future use and development by other educators. [1] #1 worked.#2 didn’t. [1] Tenenberg, J. and Fincher, S. Opening the door of the computer science classroom: the Disciplinary Commons. SIGCSE Bull., 39, 1 2007, 514-518.

  5. DCCE Disciplinary Commons for Computing Educators Adaptation – High School teachers AND university Goals • Creating community • Sharing resources and knowledge of how things are taught in other contexts AND… • Supporting student recruitment within the high school environment

  6. Results • Building Community Measured through SNA analysis • Sharing Resources Measured through reusable resources and change of practice • Improving Recruitment Measured through surveys

  7. Building Community Year 2 high school university m e e c f

  8. Improving Recruiting • 302% increase in number of AP CS students in the year following their participation in the DCCE • Year of participation – 122 students enrolled • Next year – 491 students pre-registered • One teacher 700% increase (3 to 24 students) • Reason? • Platform to share recruitment ideas • Sense of community (keep up morale during recruiting)

  9. The Math Forum Steve Weimar

  10. An online math education community hosted by: 1992 Swarthmore College 2000 WebCT 2001 Drexel University 3 million visits/month 1 million+ pages of content Over 100,000 students mentored Pd for thousands of teachers http://mathforum.org/ Steve Weimar steve@mathforum.org

  11. Beginnings • Follow on to Visual Geometry project • Discussion groups: geometry pre-college/college/research/puzzles, NCTM • Onsite workshops and summer institutes: teachers exploring • Problems of the Week: Mentoring problem-solving, NCTM standards • Ask Dr. Math: College students exploring • Internet Math Library: organizing and sharing resources

  12. Foci Go/work where the action is Attend to the people Do the professional work that you enjoy with others Knowledge-building from interactions Focus on thinking and creating Rounded portfolio of activity First to market

  13. Extending • Collaborative projects bridging communities: BRAP, ESCOT, T2T, VMT, Math Images • Professional development: online workshops, district contracts, pre-service teacher modules, online graduate degree • Apply communities and online math to other areas: MathTools, Financial Education • Extend social media presence

  14. Foci • Facilitate multiple levels of engagement • Value add: teacher professional development layer for other efforts • Bridge communities and bring the math to other disciplines • Connect the informal and formal • Persist. Invest in those who make this their work.

  15. Two Broad Areas of Study of The Math Forum Communities of Practice - Wesley Shumar, Culture and Communication, Drexel University Interest and Success with Online Learning for Students and for Teachers - Ann Renninger, Education, Swarthmore College:

  16. Computing At School Neil Brown (@twistedsq) University of Kent/Computing At School

  17. Roughly: Computing At School (CAS) is UK equivalent of CSTA • More info in upcoming SIGCSE 2013 paper: http://twistedsquare.com/CAS.pdf

  18. Mixture of online and face-to-face interaction • Network of ~50 local "hubs", running ad-hoc (mostly peer-to-peer) training

  19. CAS Online is the community site, which our research group designed (based on our Greenroom site), and now run/administer • 2,500 members: teachers, higher education, industry • 350 resources in six months since launch

  20. The Math and Science Partnership Network Shay Pokress, MIT Media Lab Formerly of TERC in Cambridge, MA From 2003 - 2012: Community facilitator and content manager for MSPnet.org, the online community for the Math Science Partnership Network (MSP) Now at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Mobile Learning, doing education outreach and curriculum development for the App Inventor project

  21. MSPnet.org • A project of TERC, funded by the National Science Foundation as a major part of the MSP program • MSPnet serves over 100 MSP projects: • new projects • veteran projects • past projects • MSPnet's major goals: • dissemination • knowledge building and sharing • online tools for MSP projects • facilitated communication between and among MSPs

  22. Dimensions that guide developmentof new online communities 1. Nature of the community –Size: how big is the group on the whole, how big are key subgroups –Accessibility: open to all, closed to members, a little of each? –Shared interests: how the group (and subgroups) are connected 2. Nature of the PD Experience –Building a knowledge base/resource center? –Place for meeting and discussion? –What kinds of interactions should be possible? 3. Nature of the audience and of the “products” –Is dissemination a goal? –Is the community private or public? (… or a little of both?) 4. Focus of leadership and facilitation –Who controls membership, content, and moderation? Central or distributed control? Falk & Drayton, Creating and Sustaining Online Professional Learning Communities, Teachers College Press, 2009.

  23. Dimensions of MSPnet 1. Nature of the community MSPnet serves roughly 5,000 members who have different levels of shared interest. This shapes the structure of the site in that it has a central "hub" for everyone, and also project spaces for each project. 2. Nature of the PD Experience MSPnet is a place to share knowledge and find resources for many different constituents. As such it offers various ways to collaborate: public webinars and private videoconferences; cross-project discussions and private working groups; public reports and members-only docs. Falk & Drayton, Creating and Sustaining Online Professional Learning Communities, Teachers College Press, 2009.

  24. Dimensions of MSPnet 3. Nature of the audience and of the “products” MSPnet serves the public as well as the MSP projects. A major product is to capture, disseminate, and archive the work of the MSP program. As such, MSPnet is many different things rolled into one: a hybrid of an online community and a program repository. 4. Focus of leadership and facilitation Membership to MSPnet is restricted to members of MSP projects. Some parts are publicly available. MSPnet is centrally controlled (by TERC), but project-level administration and moderation is left to the individual projects. So, again, a hybrid. Falk & Drayton, Creating and Sustaining Online Professional Learning Communities, Teachers College Press, 2009.

  25. Lessons learned from a decade of online community facilitation What makes an online community successful? People!

  26. Lessons learned from a decade of online community facilitation You don't just build it. You have to actively nurture it... but how? • regular communication: push news out via email, twitter, etc. • fresh content all the time - make latest posts, resources, webinars, etc. clearly visible and easy to access • outreach and support - someone has to know the community's people and be available to them Regular and frequent content managementand community facilitation is key.

  27. Twitter Math Camp http://www.twittermathcamp.com @TMathC on Twitter Lisa Henry, lead organizer Brookfield High School, Brookfield, OH lmhenry@zoominternet.net @lmhenry9 on Twitter

  28. Twitter Math Camp 2012 Participants

  29. Kate Nowak Dan Meyer Sam Shah

  30. Kristen Fouss and I at her school in October, 2010 Amber Caldwell, myself, Sarah Bratt, Ashley Fago, and Kristen Fouss at a Tweetup at NCTM, Indianapolis, April, 2011

  31. Twitter Math Camp Sessions 

  32. Social Activities

  33. Keeping in touch – via Twitter

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  35. Big Issues • Online support, especially vs. face to face • Notions of community (beyond the tool) • What does effective community look like? What results should we get? • Community before the tool: A tool can extend existing face-to-face relationships • Facilitation best practices • Informing the CoP tool itself • How to make things useful to teachers with different backgrounds • How to follow-up on PD online • Why will they come if we build it?

  36. Seeding questions ?

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