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Making Connections:

Working Together to

Improve Teaching Practice

22“Education is not a place for modest ambitions.” Lee Shulman, 2004 p.497 (The Wisdom of Practice)

Teacher Learner Communitiesand the Wiki Teacher

Tim Murphey mits@kanda.kuis.ac.jpKanda University of International Studies KUIS

The Woman Magician

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WIKI wikiwiki = fast (Hawaiian)oxymoron

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• We Invigorate Knowledge Intermentally! Social and Cultural Capital

• What I Know Is

77Producers + ConsumersProducers + Consumers = PROSUMERS

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MacGyverThe only tool you will ever need

Social Capital: Networks, Friends

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Too homogeneous

A Community of Macgyvers?

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WIKI TEACHERS

Some Characteristics• Out of the Box Thinking (MacGyver)• Techno/tool learner (Mac-user)• Social Intelligence (Goleman-2006)• Comfortable with uncertainty (Shulman, 2004)• Situational Flexibility (appropriate risk-taker)• Build community (see community relationships

as the principle tool of learning, teaching, growing co-constructed knowledge)

When you want to create better communities you might

• Dare to tell your stories• Ask people to collaborate with you• Develop those relationship skills• Change environments when possible• Cultivate collaborative and positive attitudes• Be sure to appreciate what is already there that is

good and helpful

Collegiality defined

Having frequent conversations about teaching and learning;

Observing and providing feedback for one another;

Working collaboratively on the curriculum;Teaching one another about teaching,

learning and leading.

How would you rate yourself?1-10 (5 being average)

Tim’s1. Out of the Box Thinking 62. Techno/tool learner 43. Social Intelligence 3-6 4. Situational Flexibility 75. Comfortable with uncertainty 7 6. Build community (see community 7relationships as the principle tool of learning)

ConstraintsIsolationOverloading TimeCompatibilityFear and insecurityTurf warsConservative tendencies

Design for uncertainty, not certainty. Design to maximize chance.

“Education is not a place for modest ambitions.” Lee Shulman, 2004 p.497 (The Wisdom of Practice)

Create Community

Cultivate your Wikinicity!

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