Virtuous Circle

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Virtuous Circle
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Why? Learning is Social

• Learning is fundamentally social
• Learning is integrated into the life of
  communities
• Learning is an act of participation
• Knowing depends on engagement in practice
• Engagement is inseparable from empowerment
• Exclusion from participation results in learning
  failure
• People are natural lifelong learners.
• --Peter Henschel

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Visualizing Community

• Traditional Community
• Each Knows Each
• Eventually closed circle
• Soft edges
• Centered Communication

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Visualizing Community

• Typical Community
• Semi-Lattice
• Points or Thorns
• De-Centered Communication

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CoL CoP
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Types of Community

• Classrooms typically operate as proximal
  communities
• Leading and fostering interactions based around
  creating meaning leads to semantic community

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1T, 2T, 3T, Disruption