Knowledge Cafe

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Knowledge Cafe

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Why are we here?
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• Knowledge Cafés have grown out of knowledge
  sharing and management in corporations.
• Intense interest in the benefits and potential of
  communities of practice, on and off line.
• The idea is to surface your own understanding
  around a theme, listen to and learn from others.
• You then create and organise something new,
  wonderful and worthwhile in the company of
  others!
• And fast.

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Wenger and Communities of Practice

• Most knowledge develops
• at the boundary between professional groups - the
  'wellspring for innovation
• the tension between competence and experience

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Purpose of our Knowledge Café today

• Enable each participant to meet and talk to many
  other people around a relevant theme
• Record some key knowledge emerging from the
  collective discussions

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Our Theme
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Building Mind Bridges What really is the
relationship between formal and informal learning
in 2005? Can e-learning be the bridge across the
divide?
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The Schedule
Find and briefly introduce yourself to one other
person whom you have never met before
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Foot on the bridge Find one other
person Discussion on Digital Natives then
later Digital Immigrants
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Each person, in the pair, introduces, to the
other, ONE key idea or theme around the issue
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Discussions in pairs
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Each pair joins within another pair appoints a
team recorder
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Each person introduces him/herself
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Each person in the pair speaks around the theme
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Discussion occurs on choice, priority and
recording
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Place ideas on knowledge wall!
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Round 1
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Just a few little rules

•   No one individual speaks for longer than 1
  minute.
•   For that one minute he or she cannot be
  interrupted.
•   After one minute the baton moves to another
  person in the pair or four.
•    No one can speak again until everyone has
  spoken once.
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Key points

• One person from each four is responsible for
  writing a brief note of key points and placing
  them on the knowledge wall
• There will be two rounds of the process with
  different people in each group each time

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Have a great time!
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Free footprinting 1 2
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Find one other person Discussion on Digital
Natives
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Scenario 4
Digital natives

• Todays students are no longer the people our
  educational system was designed to teach.
  (Prensky, 2001)
• Growing up immersed in digital technologies.
• Think and process differently multi-tasking,
  parallel processing random access attention
  switching, socially networked

Thanks to David Nicol Allison Littlejohn From
their ALT-C paper 2005 Learning from Digital
Natives

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The Schedule
Find and briefly introduce yourself to one other
person whom you have never met before
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Each person, in the pair, introduces, to the
other, ONE key idea or theme around the issue
4
Discussions in pairs
4
Each pair joins within another pair appoints a
team recorder
3
4
Each person introduces him/herself
5
Each person in the pair speaks around the theme
8
Discussion occurs on choice, priority and
recording
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Place ideas on knowledge wall!
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Round 1
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Report Back
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Free footprinting 2
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Find one other person Discuss Digital Immigrants
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Digital immigrants

• Retain their accent
• Use different approaches to learning (e.g. step
  by step)
• Dont build on students natural capacities and
  motivation
• Separation of formal and informal learning.

Thanks to David Nicol Allison Littlejohn From
their ALT-C paper 2005 Learning from Digital
Natives

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The Schedule
Find and briefly introduce yourself to one other
person whom you have never met before
4
2
Each person, in the pair, introduces, to the
other, ONE key idea or theme around the issue
4
Discussions in pairs
4
Each pair joins within another pair appoints a
team recorder
3
4
Each person introduces him/herself
5
Each person in the pair speaks around the theme
8
Discussion occurs on choice, priority and
recording
6
Place ideas on knowledge wall!
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Round 2
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Report Back
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Network
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thanks for leaving your footprint in the
Knowledge Cafe
Please leave your business card if youd like a
short write up to be e mailed to you
Gilly.salmon_at_le.ac.uk
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