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Learning to Curate Quality Learning:
From Open Education Resources to
Digital Textbooks, Collaboratories and
Sustainable “Knowledge Garden” Communities
!
Ted M. Kahn, Ph.D.!
Co-Founder & CEO!
DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. &!
DesignWorlds for College & Careers!
!
Founding Director & Chief Curator!
Bay Area Science Museum Learning Collaboratory &
Mindseum!
About DesignWorlds
n  18-year old CA corporation dedicated to
developing and supporting new kinds of online,
collaborative learning & knowledge-making
communities!
n  Web-based collaboratories: Building bridges
between K-12 schools, higher ed, museums &
other informal learning centers,workplaces,
research labs, and homes)!
n  DesignWorlds for College & Careers: Helping
high school and college students make informed
choices about college & (post) graduate
education and designing alternative career paths!
Views of LearningViews of Learning
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Current View of AssessmentCurrent View of Assessment
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Views of LearningViews of Learning
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
What do we curate in the digital world?
Learning is fundamentally social:
Curating the informal:
Shared conversations and face-to-face/email/video
transactions
Informal Learning at WorkInformal Learning at Work
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Illustration
© 1991-1996
Gary Lund
Some Historical Models:
Collecting, Editing, Curating
Museum at Alexandria => !
Exploratorium & Virtual Museums!
Libraries => National Science Digital Library!
Collecting Questions => Quora!
Conversations & Layered Annotations (e.g.,
Talmud) => Hypertext & Hypermedia!
Oxford English Dictionary &!
Encyclopedia Britannica => Google & Wkipedia!
Books & Textbooks => OER & OpenSTAX!
Scientific & Academic Journals => ArXiv &
Collaboratories!
Oral Storytelling => “Story Corps” & !
Digital Storytelling!
CommunicationCommunication
CommunityCommunity
CreativityCreativity
LearningLearning
Learning Community Stakeholders
Institute for the New California,
Learning in the Information Age:
A Conversation for California’s Future (1997).
From the Learner’s Viewpoint...
Institute for the New California (1997). Learning in the Information Age:
A Conversation for California’s Future (1997).
A Case Study:
The Bay Area Science Education
Collaboratory (2002-2008)
Helping science teachers & parents!
be even more successful !
helping their students learn science
& develop scientific literacy—!
using billion$ of museum & other
informal science learning resources!
!
Leveraging Over $1 Billion Investment
To Increase Access & Use of
Museum, Media & Other Informal Science Learning Resources
n  Goal – Scientific literacy for all; initial focus on middle
grades (4-8): teachers, parents and students!
n  Problem – CA students not learning science and/or
lack of continued interest in learning or doing
science (especially after 4th grade). Average of 1 hr
per week dedicated to science in grades K-5.!
n  Need to “bridge the gap” between informal learning
and needs of standards-aligned formal science
education !
n  A Partial Solution: Web-based “open source”
learning=> Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory!
!
Why Science Learning
Collaboratories (2001-02)?
• Bridging informal, “free choice” science learning with
formal education:
• “Before It’s Too Late” (Glenn Commission (2000);
Business Roundtable (2005), National Academy of
Sciences (2006)
• Most Bay Area middle school science teachers still lack
B.A.’s in science; few have had real science-related work
experience
n  Science textbooks are expensive and focus largely on the
past, not the future in which students will live
n  Teacher professional development is expensive (time & $)
n  Parents want to know how to best help their children learn
science…
Why science collaboratories?
n  Teachers know there are better resources for
inquiry and hands-on science than textbooks…
n  But the wealth of billions of $$ invested in
informal science education resources is still
greatly under-utilized by the majority of teachers
Why not just use the Web?
The Web is full of information & resources…
Information Overload
n  Teachers and parents often don’t have time to browse
and find the best non-textbook resources that may fit
their students individual learning/thinking styles and
needs.. and which are aligned with CA standards…!
n  Google search: “middle school plate tectonics” !
(Oct. 2003) =>17,000 hits!
• Same search (June., 2015): 202,000 hits !!
!!
The Bay Area Science (Museum)
Education Collaboratory
Regional Science Learning Community Resource,
co-designed by/for SF Bay Area Middle School Teachers
6th Grade Bay Area Science Collaboratory
Museum Web links aligned to California
Grade 6 Science Standards (Focus on Earth Sciences
Bay Area Science Collaboratory
Three clicks from California grade-level science
standards/topics -> subtopics ->…
Bay Area Science Collaboratory
Two best teacher-selected resource for each
subtopic, selected from local museums & Web
Bay Area Science Museum Collaboratory
Community Content Aquisition & Curation
Flow Model
Collaboratory Users
Developmental Model:
Increasing Participation =>
Increased Depth & Social Spread of Learning
n  Users of open content resources
contributed by other community members!
n  Author-creator-designer of new resources!
n  Editor & Curator of Topics of Interest and
Learning Journeys /“Knowledge Quests”!
n  Federator-Pathfinder of topic connections
across disciplines!
n  Mentor-Coach & Community Advocate!
Experienced Teachers as Designers,
Users, Contributors & Mentors
Bay Area Science Collaboratory
Nexist Wiki (Jack Park) Topic Map
Resource Matrix aligned with CA standards by teachers,
academic science specialists and
museum educators
Creating a New Collaboratory
(Example: 4th Grade Science (CA):
1. Design Visual Topic Map
Interface to Standards (thanks to Eileen Clegg)
Creating a New Collaboratory
(4th Grade Science (CA):
2. Create Wiki Standards Matrix Database & Topic Map
Process to Create New Grade Level
Collaboratory
3. Find and rate two best resources for each standard
and benchmark (subtopic)
Examples:
“Hands-On” Demos & Activities
Virtual Museum Field Trips
with Video Commentary
n  Chabot Space &
Science Center
(Oakland)!
n  PlanetaryLandscapes!
n  Exhibit Curator “Point of
View” Commentary!
Authentic Assessment of Learning:
Virtual Peer Teaching
(“Showing what you know”)
n  Using videos of
museum visits to help
introduce exhibits and
teach concepts to
other students—
virtually!
n  8th Grade Students @
Chabot Space &
Science Center!
Bay Area Science Collaboratory (2002-08)
With thanks to the support of:
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation &
The S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
n  Classroom or home access to the best middle grades (4-8)
science lessons, demos/activities & other resources from 6
museums, aligned with grade level California Science
Standards !
n  Selection of over 1,000 learning resources found & curated by
over 180 CA Bay Area teachers and museum educators!
!
n  Started annual review of the two best resources for each
science standard/benchmark in grades 4-8 by Bay Area
teachers, museum educators, higher education faculty and
science education experts!
n  Online classes used for teacher professional development in
building “communities of practice”!
Science Collaboratories:
Demonstrated & Measurable Goals
n  Increase in student science achievement & science
literacy!
n  Increase in teacher science knowledge!
n  Integration of new emerging science & technology
into standards-based science curriculum (e.g.,
nanotech, biotech, biophotonics, etc.:!
n  Broader & more extensive teacher & learner use of
Billion $$ of local museum & informal learning
resources!
n  Engagement of parents & guardians in the students’
learning and doing of science!
n  Establishment & active participation of regional
science education “communities of practice!
Newer Models:
TopicQuests
* Thanks to Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation.
A Social CMS Garden Portal*
* Thanks to Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation.
Web Services to TopicSpaces
* Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation
Mindseum.org
Mindseum.WujiTech.com
“Tagomizer”
Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation
www.slideshare.net/jackpark
Collective Sensemaking
Knowledge Gardening
Blooming and buzzing
ideas that need
collection,
deliberation, and
organization
Collaboratory and
Knowledge Gardens:
Common Goals & Social Structures
n  Common Vision & Shared Goals!
n  Crowd Sourcing: Social Co-design & Participation!
n  Dynamic & Federated Social Knowledge Architecture!
n  Rapid Iterative Design, Prototype & Development!
n  Collaborative Talents/Strengths & Skills
Development (Assessment & Continuous Learning/
Improvement)!
n  Collaborative Technologies AND Face-to-Face
Relationship Building!
n  Multiple levels of participation & development!
“Inch by inch,
Row by row...”
Towards Sustainable Knowledge Gardens:
We’re ALL:
Visitors, Learners, Content Contributors/Creators, Guides &
Curators
Aggregate/Federate (link & connect)/Guide =>
Crowd Source/Create/Experiment/Curate =>
Share/Monetize/Sustain & Scale
A Global Community Learning and Knowledge Garden
Questions?
“Discovery consists of seeing the same things
that everyone else sees—but thinking what no
one else has thought.”
—Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(Nobel Prize-Medicine, 1937)
Some Important Related Web
Links & Resources
n  Bay Area Science Museum/ Education Collaboratory!
n  www.designworlds.com/collab/project.html!
Home Page: !
! ! www.designworlds.com/collab/!
!
! !• 2007 Museums and the Web Conference Presentation:!
www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/kahn/kahn.html!
•  Jack Park’s SlideShare Presentations on
TopicQuests, Federated Knowledge Gardens,
OpenSherlock, etc: www.slideshare.net/jackpark!
!
!
Special Thanks To:
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
The S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
TopicQuests Foundation
My DesignWorlds Science Collaboratory Colleagues:
Rick Berg
Eileen Clegg
Susanne Commisso
Bill Daul
Jack Gottsman
Bob Kahn
Frona Kahn
Jack Park
Saul Rockman
Sherman Rosenfeld
Belinda Lowe Schmahl
Alex Wenzowski
!
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]!
!
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Ted M. Kahn, Ph.D.
DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc.
ted@designworlds.com
www.designworlds.com
408.252.2285
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Learning to Curate Quality Learning

  • 1.
    Learning to CurateQuality Learning: From Open Education Resources to Digital Textbooks, Collaboratories and Sustainable “Knowledge Garden” Communities ! Ted M. Kahn, Ph.D.! Co-Founder & CEO! DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. &! DesignWorlds for College & Careers! ! Founding Director & Chief Curator! Bay Area Science Museum Learning Collaboratory & Mindseum!
  • 2.
    About DesignWorlds n  18-yearold CA corporation dedicated to developing and supporting new kinds of online, collaborative learning & knowledge-making communities! n  Web-based collaboratories: Building bridges between K-12 schools, higher ed, museums & other informal learning centers,workplaces, research labs, and homes)! n  DesignWorlds for College & Careers: Helping high school and college students make informed choices about college & (post) graduate education and designing alternative career paths!
  • 3.
    Views of LearningViewsof Learning Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund
  • 4.
    Current View ofAssessmentCurrent View of Assessment Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund
  • 5.
    Views of LearningViewsof Learning Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund
  • 6.
    What do wecurate in the digital world?
  • 7.
    Learning is fundamentallysocial: Curating the informal: Shared conversations and face-to-face/email/video transactions Informal Learning at WorkInformal Learning at Work Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund Illustration © 1991-1996 Gary Lund
  • 8.
    Some Historical Models: Collecting,Editing, Curating Museum at Alexandria => ! Exploratorium & Virtual Museums! Libraries => National Science Digital Library! Collecting Questions => Quora! Conversations & Layered Annotations (e.g., Talmud) => Hypertext & Hypermedia! Oxford English Dictionary &! Encyclopedia Britannica => Google & Wkipedia! Books & Textbooks => OER & OpenSTAX! Scientific & Academic Journals => ArXiv & Collaboratories! Oral Storytelling => “Story Corps” & ! Digital Storytelling!
  • 9.
  • 10.
    Learning Community Stakeholders Institutefor the New California, Learning in the Information Age: A Conversation for California’s Future (1997).
  • 11.
    From the Learner’sViewpoint... Institute for the New California (1997). Learning in the Information Age: A Conversation for California’s Future (1997).
  • 12.
    A Case Study: TheBay Area Science Education Collaboratory (2002-2008) Helping science teachers & parents! be even more successful ! helping their students learn science & develop scientific literacy—! using billion$ of museum & other informal science learning resources! !
  • 13.
    Leveraging Over $1Billion Investment To Increase Access & Use of Museum, Media & Other Informal Science Learning Resources n  Goal – Scientific literacy for all; initial focus on middle grades (4-8): teachers, parents and students! n  Problem – CA students not learning science and/or lack of continued interest in learning or doing science (especially after 4th grade). Average of 1 hr per week dedicated to science in grades K-5.! n  Need to “bridge the gap” between informal learning and needs of standards-aligned formal science education ! n  A Partial Solution: Web-based “open source” learning=> Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory! !
  • 14.
    Why Science Learning Collaboratories(2001-02)? • Bridging informal, “free choice” science learning with formal education: • “Before It’s Too Late” (Glenn Commission (2000); Business Roundtable (2005), National Academy of Sciences (2006) • Most Bay Area middle school science teachers still lack B.A.’s in science; few have had real science-related work experience n  Science textbooks are expensive and focus largely on the past, not the future in which students will live n  Teacher professional development is expensive (time & $) n  Parents want to know how to best help their children learn science…
  • 15.
    Why science collaboratories? n Teachers know there are better resources for inquiry and hands-on science than textbooks… n  But the wealth of billions of $$ invested in informal science education resources is still greatly under-utilized by the majority of teachers
  • 16.
    Why not justuse the Web? The Web is full of information & resources…
  • 17.
    Information Overload n  Teachersand parents often don’t have time to browse and find the best non-textbook resources that may fit their students individual learning/thinking styles and needs.. and which are aligned with CA standards…! n  Google search: “middle school plate tectonics” ! (Oct. 2003) =>17,000 hits! • Same search (June., 2015): 202,000 hits !! !!
  • 18.
    The Bay AreaScience (Museum) Education Collaboratory Regional Science Learning Community Resource, co-designed by/for SF Bay Area Middle School Teachers
  • 19.
    6th Grade BayArea Science Collaboratory Museum Web links aligned to California Grade 6 Science Standards (Focus on Earth Sciences
  • 20.
    Bay Area ScienceCollaboratory Three clicks from California grade-level science standards/topics -> subtopics ->…
  • 21.
    Bay Area ScienceCollaboratory Two best teacher-selected resource for each subtopic, selected from local museums & Web
  • 22.
    Bay Area ScienceMuseum Collaboratory Community Content Aquisition & Curation Flow Model
  • 23.
    Collaboratory Users Developmental Model: IncreasingParticipation => Increased Depth & Social Spread of Learning n  Users of open content resources contributed by other community members! n  Author-creator-designer of new resources! n  Editor & Curator of Topics of Interest and Learning Journeys /“Knowledge Quests”! n  Federator-Pathfinder of topic connections across disciplines! n  Mentor-Coach & Community Advocate!
  • 24.
    Experienced Teachers asDesigners, Users, Contributors & Mentors
  • 25.
    Bay Area ScienceCollaboratory Nexist Wiki (Jack Park) Topic Map Resource Matrix aligned with CA standards by teachers, academic science specialists and museum educators
  • 26.
    Creating a NewCollaboratory (Example: 4th Grade Science (CA): 1. Design Visual Topic Map Interface to Standards (thanks to Eileen Clegg)
  • 27.
    Creating a NewCollaboratory (4th Grade Science (CA): 2. Create Wiki Standards Matrix Database & Topic Map
  • 28.
    Process to CreateNew Grade Level Collaboratory 3. Find and rate two best resources for each standard and benchmark (subtopic)
  • 29.
  • 30.
    Virtual Museum FieldTrips with Video Commentary n  Chabot Space & Science Center (Oakland)! n  PlanetaryLandscapes! n  Exhibit Curator “Point of View” Commentary!
  • 31.
    Authentic Assessment ofLearning: Virtual Peer Teaching (“Showing what you know”) n  Using videos of museum visits to help introduce exhibits and teach concepts to other students— virtually! n  8th Grade Students @ Chabot Space & Science Center!
  • 32.
    Bay Area ScienceCollaboratory (2002-08) With thanks to the support of: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation & The S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation n  Classroom or home access to the best middle grades (4-8) science lessons, demos/activities & other resources from 6 museums, aligned with grade level California Science Standards ! n  Selection of over 1,000 learning resources found & curated by over 180 CA Bay Area teachers and museum educators! ! n  Started annual review of the two best resources for each science standard/benchmark in grades 4-8 by Bay Area teachers, museum educators, higher education faculty and science education experts! n  Online classes used for teacher professional development in building “communities of practice”!
  • 33.
    Science Collaboratories: Demonstrated &Measurable Goals n  Increase in student science achievement & science literacy! n  Increase in teacher science knowledge! n  Integration of new emerging science & technology into standards-based science curriculum (e.g., nanotech, biotech, biophotonics, etc.:! n  Broader & more extensive teacher & learner use of Billion $$ of local museum & informal learning resources! n  Engagement of parents & guardians in the students’ learning and doing of science! n  Establishment & active participation of regional science education “communities of practice!
  • 34.
    Newer Models: TopicQuests * Thanksto Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation.
  • 35.
    A Social CMSGarden Portal* * Thanks to Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation.
  • 36.
    Web Services toTopicSpaces * Jack Park, TopicQuests Foundation
  • 37.
  • 38.
  • 39.
    “Tagomizer” Jack Park, TopicQuestsFoundation www.slideshare.net/jackpark
  • 40.
    Collective Sensemaking Knowledge Gardening Bloomingand buzzing ideas that need collection, deliberation, and organization
  • 41.
    Collaboratory and Knowledge Gardens: CommonGoals & Social Structures n  Common Vision & Shared Goals! n  Crowd Sourcing: Social Co-design & Participation! n  Dynamic & Federated Social Knowledge Architecture! n  Rapid Iterative Design, Prototype & Development! n  Collaborative Talents/Strengths & Skills Development (Assessment & Continuous Learning/ Improvement)! n  Collaborative Technologies AND Face-to-Face Relationship Building! n  Multiple levels of participation & development!
  • 42.
  • 43.
    Towards Sustainable KnowledgeGardens: We’re ALL: Visitors, Learners, Content Contributors/Creators, Guides & Curators Aggregate/Federate (link & connect)/Guide => Crowd Source/Create/Experiment/Curate => Share/Monetize/Sustain & Scale A Global Community Learning and Knowledge Garden
  • 44.
  • 45.
    “Discovery consists ofseeing the same things that everyone else sees—but thinking what no one else has thought.” —Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Nobel Prize-Medicine, 1937)
  • 46.
    Some Important RelatedWeb Links & Resources n  Bay Area Science Museum/ Education Collaboratory! n  www.designworlds.com/collab/project.html! Home Page: ! ! ! www.designworlds.com/collab/! ! ! !• 2007 Museums and the Web Conference Presentation:! www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/kahn/kahn.html! •  Jack Park’s SlideShare Presentations on TopicQuests, Federated Knowledge Gardens, OpenSherlock, etc: www.slideshare.net/jackpark! ! !
  • 47.
    Special Thanks To: TheWilliam & Flora Hewlett Foundation The S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation TopicQuests Foundation My DesignWorlds Science Collaboratory Colleagues: Rick Berg Eileen Clegg Susanne Commisso Bill Daul Jack Gottsman Bob Kahn Frona Kahn Jack Park Saul Rockman Sherman Rosenfeld Belinda Lowe Schmahl Alex Wenzowski ! ! ! ! ]! ! !
  • 48.
    Ted M. Kahn,Ph.D. DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. ted@designworlds.com www.designworlds.com 408.252.2285 ! ! ! !