1. Learning in a Networked World
ConnectED conference
Newcastle, May 2017
derek.wenmoth@core-ed.org
@dwenmoth
http://www.wenmoth.net

2. Network Literacies
Understanding how networks
works is one of the most
important literacies of the
21st century.
Howard Reingold

3. Four Forms behind the organisation and evolution of all societies - TMIN
History
7000 BC 3000 AD
David Ronfeldt TIMN (Tribal, Institutional, Market, Network)

4. The emerging paradigm…
First Then Now Next
F2F
Classrooms
Distance
Education
WWW as a
research tool
WWW as a
delivery
tool
Virtual
Schools
Knowledge
Building
Communities
“Flipped
Classroom”
Teaching and
Instruction
Online/
eLearning
Blended
Learning
Networked
learning

5. From schools to networks…
Networked learning communities are complex
Networked learning communities can influence learning
Changing thinking and practice is the key
Schools are the locus of change in thinking and practice
Relationships and collaboration are beginnings, not ends in
themselves
Joint work that challenges thinking and practices is the critical
core of collaboration

6. More research findings...
School and network foci need to be right, shared and
understood
Schools’ strength of engagement in the network is important
Collaborative inquiry is an important new skill
Distributed leadership is important in schools and networks
Formal leadership matters

7. Some NZ Examples
• Communities of Learning
• Virtual Learning Network
• Grow Waitaha
• Virtual Fieldtrips
• New Pedagogies for Deep Learning

8. Numbers of NZ Schools Full primary schools 1,088
Contributing primary schools 771
Intermediate schools 120
Special schools 38
Secondary schools (Yrs 7-15) 103
Composite schools (Yrs 1-15) 158
Middle schools/Junior High schools 3
Secondary schools (Yrs 9-15) 236
Correspondence school 1
Teen Parent Units 21
Partnership Schools 5
» Total 2539

9. Change in NZ Education System
• School governance devolved to elected Boards of
Trustees
• Two new Government Departments - MoE, ERO
• 5 Key competencies, Future Focus themes
• Personalised Learning
Focus on raising student achievement through
• Improving teaching practice
• Increasing collaboration between schools
1989:
“Tomorrow’s
Schools”
2003:
Curriculum
Framework
2016: Investing in
Educational
Success (IES)

10. The problems we face…
Social mobility
Equity challenges
Supply and demand

11. Communities of Learning
• Follow the learner
• New roles
• Lead principal
• Lead teacher – internal
• lead teacher - between
• Voluntary – (yet inevitable)
• Focus on collaboration and
sharing expertise
http://www.education.govt.nz/ministry-of-education/col/

12. Grow Waitaha

13. http://www.vln.school.nz/

14. Virtual Learning Network
http://www.vln.school.nz/

15. www.learnz.org.nz

16. NPDL Deep Learning Competencies
CHARACTER
Learning to deep learn, armed with the
essential character traits of grit, tenacity,
perseverance, and resilience; and the ability to
make learning an integral part of living.
CREATIVITY
Having an ‘entrepreneurial eye’ for economic and
social opportunities, asking the right inquiry
questions to generate novel ideas, and leadership
to pursue those ideas and turn them into action.
COMMUNICATION
Communicating effectively with a variety of
styles, modes, and tools (including digital
tools), tailored for a range of audiences.
CITIZENSHIP
Thinking like global citizens, considering global
issues based on a deep understanding of diverse
values and worldviews, and with a genuine interest
and ability to solve ambiguous and complex
real-world problems that impact human and
environmental sustainability.
COLLABORATION
Work interdependently and synergistically in teams with
strong interpersonal and team-related skills including
effective management of team dynamics and challenges,
making substantive decisions together, and learning from
and contributing to the learning of others.
CRITICAL THINKING
Critically evaluating information and arguments,
seeing patterns and connections, constructing
meaningful knowledge, and applying it in the real
world.
http://npdl.global

17. Shifting Practice

18. Tools for Shifting practice
Learning
Conditions
Rubrics to assess:
▪ System Conditions
▪ Cluster Conditions
▪ School Conditions
▪ Implementation
Diagnostic
New
Pedagogies
Tools and protocols to
design deep learning
experiences:
▪ New Pedagogies
Learning Design Rubric
▪ New Pedagogies
Learning Design
Protocol
▪ Teacher Self-
Assessment
Deep Learning
Outcomes
Learning Progressions to
assess and measure deep
learning competencies:
▪ Character
▪ Citizenship
▪ Collaboration
▪ Communication
▪ Creativity
▪ Critical thinking
PROCESS + SUITE OF TOOLS
Collaborative
Inquiry Cycle
Assess
Design
Implement
Reflect
Change
http://npdl.global

19. NZ Schools in NPDL

20. http://npdl.global
Global network
NPDL Clusters located in seven
countries around the world working
together to design deep learning,
develop new pedagogies that enable
deep learning, and improve learning
conditions that expand deep learning.
Uruguay
Canada
USA
Finland
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands

21. Collaboration is key
http://www.core-ed.org/research-and-innovation/resources/white-papers/collaboration-framework/

22. http://www.core-ed.org/research-and-innovation/resources/white-papers/collaboration-framework/

23. An education system that fails to emulate the characteristics of information in an
era of knowledge is doomed to fail. Information today is…
George Siemens: Connectivism – a theory of learning for the networked age
http://www.connectivism.ca/
• Open
• Distributed
• Scalable
• Social
• Generative
• Networked
• Self-organised
• Adaptive
• Global

24. Networks
Redefine communities, friends,
citizenship, identity, presence,
privacy, publics, geography.
Enable learning, communication,
sharing, collaboration,
community.
Networks form around shared
interests & objects

25. Shifts in thinking
Inputs to Outcomes
Anecdote to Evidence based
Opaque to Transparent
Homogeneous to Diverse
Ad hoc to Sector strategies
Stand alone to networked, collaborative

26. derek.wenmoth@core-ed.org
@dwenmoth
http://www.wenmoth.net