Learning Twitter

[Anna Warren]

There’s a lot here that’s giving me pause for thought Leonie! Not least your experience of the lack of feedback due to a protected account – it’s a reminder really that we need to be mindful about how important feedback, and more to the point, timely feedback is in supporting and motivating learners!

I’m inclined to agree with you about some of the limitations of the model – is there another model that you think would work better here?

Anna

[Leonie]

Hi Anna. Thank you for the motivating feedback

It’s not a bad model – there’s so many aspects to learning that either models ignore something or are too complicated to be useful. I’ve not yet found one that encompasses everything I would find it useful to hold in mind about learning. I did find Knud Illeris’ framework useful and will try to summarise it properly on a new thread if I’ve got time this weekend.

What I do find really helpful at the most basic level is to consider:

1. Outcomes – what is learnt? Ie what changed? And the suggested model covered that pretty well, weighted towards the cognitive outcomes tho.

2. Processes – how was it learnt? Both in terms of cognitive processes and interactions with people/tools/media etc. The activity asked us to think about that too, but the model didn’t really cover it.

3. Driving factors – basically motivation to put the effort in: aims, value of outcomes, confidence/self-efficacy

4. Constricting factors – I’ve not really spent much time understanding this, but I’m thinking of any type of barriers, & traits or states that affect learning  – not sure where there’s evidence here, or just pop science, e.g. learning styles etc.

I imagine 3 & 4 were covered in wk2, but I skipped straight to wk3 so that I might be thinking about things at the same time as others!

I’m not sure exactly what influenced the above. Certainly Illeris (2007) How we learn. Probably Alan Rogers (2002) Teaching Adults 3e too

Have a good weekend,

L

 

[Anna Warren]

Thanks for those suggestions, Leonie – I’ll definitely look those up

I have been reflecting on your Twitter experience over the last couple of days as it definitely resonated for me (and made me feel surprisingly relieved that someone else had those experiences!). It has spurred me on to have another concerted go with it, rather than be a serial “retweeter”! I’m at a day conference soon so I think I need to bite the bullet and give it a go

Anna

[Leonie]

Hi Anna

Using twitter at a conference is one of the most useful things about it so far (if lots of people are using it) – checking the stream of tweets as the presenter’s speaking was like listening into  lunchtime conversations that I might never have heard otherwise as I didn’t know those people.  But trying to do 4 things at once (listen to speaker, read tweets, take personal notes & formulate tweets) was just impossible for me! I think I could just about handle 2 at a time! Good luck!

Also, having just watched Helen Beetham’s week 2 webinar, I think her developing literacies model actually describes my learning outcomes well. I can’t figure out how to paste in the model, but it’s on slide 26 http://www.slideshare.net/hbeetham/oc-tel-mooc-week-2

 

[Jillian Pawlyn]

Hi Leonie and Anne,

I have enjoyed reading your expereinces with Twitter, I had composed my response by have had problems with posting to this page. This is my final attempt to post.

My contribution, http://jillianpawlynoctel.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/what-is-learning.html

 

[Jillian Pawlyn]

Hooray, it worked. Oops in haste I didn’t notice the spelling mistake. Experiences

 

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