Week Two

-Sally Koch

            Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

                                                           -Sally Koch

Trend #8: Social Learning Moves Toward Center Stage.

                              Social learning places an emphasis on the process or the context of learning rather than on what is learned (John Seely Brown, 2008). Process learning would be similar to the graduate seminar for students in an Educational Leadership class; students are given questions for consideration and then researching best practices for responding to that hypothetical situation.

John Seely Brown, in his presentation, Re-Imagining Dewey for the 21st Century ties the social culture of learning to participating in life long teaching (Brown, 2010). This model of learning is comparable to Dewey's basic tenet that students need to become problem solvers (John Dewey and Progressive Education) as they prepare for their own academic program of study.

There is a path that will assist teachers develop meaningful instruction for students and their future.  Elements of an effective presentation on this path  include;  1)Support for creating representations of knowledge, 2) Encourage teachers to review and critique and learn from peers, 3) Provide venues for sharing experiences/evidence to improve practice, and 4) Re-mix-Enable teachers to integrate others' knowledge into their own knowledge,  Brown, J. S. (2010).

References
Brown, J. S. (2010). John Seely Brown. Retrieved February 7, 2010, from John Seely Brown: http://johnseelybrown.com/
John Dewey and Progressive Education. (n.d.). Retrieved February 7, 2010, from http://www.bgsu.edu/department/acs/1
John Seely Brown, a. R. (2008). Minds on Fire Open Education, The long Tail and Learning 2.0. Educause Review , 18 - 32.