Below is the abstract that I have been unable to send to George Siemens for the Net Pedagogy conference session on Wed 11 Nov 2000 GMT.
This session’s deliberately ambiguous title (is it a statement or a question?) encourages us to think about teachers disappearing and appearing. Rather than eliminating teaching and teachers, I recommend that we rediscover what is great about them and how that can work in a changing world. I will deliver a brief paean on teachers and teaching, thinking about why we have them, how they change their practice, and how learning takes place without teaching. I will conclude with a few observations on how teachers applied the theory of connectivism to their practice (from my participation in CCK08). Then the important part of the session will be where participants help answer the questions (using Dave Cormier’s interactive slides approach):
· Do we need teachers? Why? Why not?
· What remains when the teacher disappears?
· What informs teachers’ practice?
I hope you can join us and answer my questions.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Terry Wassall // Nov 10, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Very good questions Frances! I guess when we think of teachers we are mainly thinking about formal education. But if we also think about informal and vicarious learning then informal and vicarious (often accidental) ‘teachers’ come into the frame. My interest is increasingly in ‘open scholarship’ and ‘open teaching’. Once you have begun to develop a personal learning network then ‘teachers’ pop up all over the place. I consider you one of my teachers as it happens.
2 Frances Bell // Nov 10, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I hope you can join us tomorrow Terry. That is a very interesting point re. informal learning. I imagine the ‘good’ teacher exercising her(his) talents wherever they come across people wanting to learn (like them), and as you say, lots of ‘natural’ teachers pop up just when you need them. Thrilled you think of me this way;)
3 Heli Nurmi // Nov 12, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Thanks for the Elluminate session yesterday, the atmosphere was very warm and nice - you listened and understood us participants.
In my mind one important point is your considering a dialogue (Buber) according to connecti0ns. I have been thinking in that direction too..
4 Net Pedagogy Elluminate Session // Nov 13, 2009 at 7:15 pm
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