Home > Blog > #PKMChat 2015-02-02 Social Learning Take #1

Time: New York Mon, Feb 2nd, 1 PM ET, Paris 7 PM CET, Sydney Tue, Feb 3rd 5 AM AEDT

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Social learning theory (Bandura) posits that learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context and can occur purely through observation or direct instruction, even in the absence of motor reproduction or direct reinforcement. Src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_learning_theory That was the large definition. Social Learning applies to various domains outside of our scope. The goal of this first chat is to explore why we should learn from others as part of our social interactions. Even more precisely as part of our social interactions online via blogging and social media. A first axis of observations is to list all the social interactions we can have that cause learning to happen. – Conversations on social media like Twitter – Twitter chats when many participants gather for a limited time and a host – Google Hangouts – Blogs and commenting on blogs – Reblogging, curation – MOOCs of various forms – Searches followed by engagement. I excluded from the list one-way use of the Internet for doing searches, reading without engagement or reading encyclopedic sources synthesized in such a way that threads and conversations disappeared. A second axis is to observe the level of maturity of the knowledge exchanged. – Is it just facts, tips or returns from the experience, reflections on practices. – Are the learner and the person who share on the same level of knowledge, do they have a significant difference or is one playing the role of teacher. A third axis is to evaluate the effectiveness of the experience. We live in a world of abundance of information and with a growing interest in personal branding via content production. This leads to an overflow of contents waiting to be consumed. Blog posts follow blog posts with incremental construction of knowledge. Hundreds of free MOOCs are proposed on various topics. Obviously we can’t read and learn all that. – Is it interesting to follow many blogs in details or better to subscribe to curated sources? – Do we learn more when we engage and comment? – Do we learn when we ourselves write more blog posts on what we just learned or read? – Do we learn more when we follow several bloggers iterate and build on one another posts? Various I’m attending two MOOCs on the topic this month: – Exploring Social Learning with Sam (@burrough ) and Martin (@martincouzins). It happens that they will have a twitter chat 30′ after #PKMChat ends. http://plgrp.co.uk/exploring-social-learning-hub/ hashtag is #exploresocial – Exploring Innovations in Networked Work and Learning (https://mslocopen.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/week-1-exploring-technology-networks-and-communities-in-the-service-of-learning/) led by Jeff Merrell (@JeffMerrell). Hashtag #MSLOC430. They will have a Twitter chat Thursday 5th (next day of this #PKMChat) https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c9oeh9qogsr4ucdk2vnk8cvj6dg?authkey=CPao3bSz1NWnqQE. There is a plan for a join chat #PKMChat #MSLOC430 toward the end of February. I added “Take #1” to the topic because we will not exhaust the topic in just one chat. PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle, in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.
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Links:

  • Workplace Insiders is a collective curation effort on Learning and Development from the Inside: workplaceinsiders.org

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