social networks and reflective learning
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- 1. social networks as platforms to develop reflective learning michael rowe physiotherapy department university of the western cape
- 3. clinical practice the healthcare practitioner must constantly review and re-prioritise existing and new problems in an enterprise of active interpretation thornquist (2001a, 2001b) practice knowledge exists as a relation between questions and answers in a context of meaning that is often intuitive and hidden higgs, et al. (2004)
- 4. tacit knowledge is hard to teach
- 5. reflection an important component of clinical practice schon (1987) ...a mental process with purpose...applied to relatively complicated...problems for which there is no obvious solution moon (1999)
- 6. but reflection is also hard to teach boud & walker (1999)
- 7. making meaning through reflection is more important than memorising content
- 8. sharing knowledge and experiences in a collegial environment 1. enables external knowledge to be internalised 2. develops problem solving strategies 3. promotes critical reflective thinking 4. challenges unshared biases mason (1998), hanko (1999)
- 9. knowledge: a negotiated outcome of social learning experiences that are integrated within the network siemens (2004)
- 10. a new communication paradigm is being constructed through community interaction and participation, which enables the formation of loosely connected groups with relative ease wesch (2009) http://bit.ly/8ZaA6g
- 11. sharingknowledgeandexperiences in asocialenvironment?
- 12. social networks
- 13. to determine the impact of participation in a social network on reflective practices in a south african undergraduate physiotherapy department aim
- 14. method set up a social network survey network participants (pre-participation) conduct workshops run assignments survey network participants (post-participation) ethical considerations
- 15. dashboard (overview)
- 16. comments in detail
- 17. user interface
- 18. where are we now?
- 19. sharing content (knowledge?)
- 20. sharing experiences
- 21. reflective discussion
- 22. spontaneous group formation
- 23. most network activity is happening outside the assignment boundaries
- 24. limitations access (technology) literacy (digital and information) generally poor levels of engagement
- 25. conclusion did the social network facilitate reflection? did lecturers facilitate reflection? did reflection just happen? is it only reflection?
- 26. sharing knowledge and experiences in a collegial (social) environment
- 27. url mrowe.co.za/blog twitter michael_rowe email [email_address] thank you