Maxwell Bigman 🚲

Exploring innovative models for meaningful learning 💡 | Learning Sciences & Technology Design PhD @Stanford

More questions than answers 🤔

[Shaan Puri @ShaanVP]

how to not f*ck up relationships (in business & life)

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A powerful learning experience is indeed personalized, but it's also *personal* -- grounded in relationships with peers to collaborate with and mentors to guide you.

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In the drive for "personalizing learning" have we become too focused on the role of technology and not focused enough on the role of other humans?

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@CarynTan29 I try to be careful with the term "personalization" in learning because it means so many different things to different people.

Platforms can help enable mediums for how learners best engage. They can also identify connections among cohort that learners wouldn't do on their own

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What's uniquely possible when you start from an online first approach to education? How do you go "beyond being there" when designing an online course/learning experience?

https://t.co/6GGnJmBgHb

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@CarynTan29 In terms of 'help you need' you have far more resources online for getting feedback, finding collaborators as a learner, getting the relevant data on learning.

Just as true for a teacher. Definitely needs further segmentation along the lines of learner, peer, near-peer, mentor

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@CarynTan29 Social computing technologies allow you to carefully curate how you present yourself to the (internet) world -- also known as the "Hyper Personal Model" https://t.co/BpUHxETa7h

Applies to the piece about communicative friction: more friction allows for more curation

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How can learning be designed to take advantage of:
- peers
- near-peers (someone one step ahead)
- mentors (amateur and expert)

How do you find the people you are looking for when you need them?

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@CarynTan29 3/ Activities

- Using different mediums for collaboration (video, text, audio)
- Building internet artifacts in collaboration with others, where sum is greater than the whole
- Remixing existing work on the internet

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@CarynTan29 2/ Tools:

- What data do you have access to on learners?
- Identifying engagement and disengagement to respond accordingly
- Using data to connect learners with similar challenges, questions, backgrounds, etc
- Large scale collaboration in real time

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A good way to start learning: find a buddy. You'll go much further together.

A few benefits: thinking out loud, teaching through learning, pushing one another.

Learning happens in the world, not just in your head

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@Bazzaruto I love the idea of "thinking in tribes." The most powerful learning happens with other people -- and the bigger that tribe, the more you can all collectively accomplish and learn together

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@david_perell Teach themselves and teach one another. A love of learning goes hand in hand with a love of teaching -- sharing that curiosity and knowledge with others

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Renovating my Twitter personality.

Please pardon our appearance🚧🏗️.

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I'll be speaking on a panel on Thursday 10/22 at 5pm PT about how we can improve online learning https://t.co/PEqNxxcPDa

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John Mitchell and Maxwell Bigman: How can we improve online learning https://t.co/6m5byoQdrG

[MIT Media Lab @medialab]

Introducing Innovation Learning and Education in the Era of #AI: a hub of learning tools and resources to help K-12 kids learn about artificial intelligence—including ethical design and responsible use. https://t.co/V3b5uGb8bn

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@Robinsony811 @dikayodata I also think that we need to educate people's support groups. My mom wanted to pursue a master's in CS but her father told her to go to business school instead citing appropriate gender roles #ethicalCS