Week 11: What is the role of knowledge creation and sharing in a healthy educational organization?4/7/2017 One area of knowledge sharing that was a new idea to me was Edcamp. The first time I heard of it was when Dr. Lee briefly brought it up in our twitter discussion. I clicked on the links and had no idea what any of it meant. I continued to do more research on Edcamp and found out it is an open collaborative professional development strategy. Instead of professional development coming across as, “take this knowledge and run with it.” It creates the question at the very beginning of the session, “what do YOU, as a teacher, want to collaborate on?” It is a very organic and personable way to share knowledge with others. As stated from the Edcamp website, “Edcamp is a mosaic of ideas explored through conversation. Without a safe environment to share, debate, and curiously investigate what's best for kids, the power of Edcamp will be lost.”
The idea of this type of collaboration supports the theory that, “tacit knowledge is deeply rooted in an individual's action and experience, as well as in the ideals, values, or emotions that he or she embraces. Successful organizations access tacit knowledge (Fullan, 2001).” Relating back to the question this week, the role of knowledge sharing is to bridge the gap between surface knowledge and deep rooted knowledge. As a first year teacher, I have been doing what I can to dig into all the veteran teacher’s thoughts and feelings. Though I can’t help but feel like they still don’t share all they know. How do I collaborate and tap into their strategies/techniques/thoughts without them feeling like I am questioning their decisions? It is definitely much harder in reality than in a text. For example, the text Leading in a Culture of Change, argues that getting people to share can create a collaborative learning culture. Although, I would argue that no matter how many bridges and pathways you create to make it easier for people to share, in the education world it can be hard to get everyone on board. Further research on this topic led me to an article that listed ten ideas for knowledge sharing:
Sources: Edcamp. 2017. Edcamp For All. Retrieved from http://www.edcamp.org/blog-post/edcamp-all Fullan, Michael. 2001. Leading in a Culture of Change. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED467449.pdf Wolf, Jennifer. 2016. Top 10 ideas for Knowledge Sharing in Education. Retrieved from http://learningaccelerator.org/blog/2016/5/top-10-ideas-for-knowledge-sharing-in-education
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4/8/2017 11:53:40 am
Funny you state that you try to look to veteran teachers and they don’t want to share. I hope you didn’t take my comment on Twitter the other day seriously. I stated that if we (veteran) teachers shared what is successful, we wouldn’t be great! I was totally being sarcastic. I am willing to share with others, in fact, I want to share, but what I get is the feeling by others that what I have to share is not worth knowing! Imagine how I feel! I think I have some valuable knowledge to share, but if we don’t have receptive teachers, there’s nothing I can really do. It’s sad. Too bad you are elementary and I’m am high school, we would totally share. I too like the Edcamp idea. I have never heard of it, but it would be nice to set something up for Southeast. Maybe rotate the location (could be online too, I guess) and share with others. That would be great. Someday!
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Natalie
4/8/2017 02:39:54 pm
I liked your list on knowledge sharing ideas. One in particular was podcasts. I'm sure they've been around for awhile but I only started listening to them in this past year. I love that you can download the podcasts you are interested in, find one with a time frame that you have available and can listen to them anywhere. It is a great way to reach adult learners (maybe students too?) without the need to read or watch anything.
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Jim
4/9/2017 06:39:34 pm
If the veterans won't share freely, never be above bribing them - donuts, coffee, chocolate. There's no shame.
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