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= The Last Layer: Facilitating Public Knowledge-Sharing on Education Innovation=
==Our next steps==


Our PI is moving to CREATE (the Center for Research on Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at UCSD. There, we'll explore the "layer" of regional and city-wide information-sharing, and, explore analogous efforts in SD to improve individual-level, school-level, and district-level communication infrastructure a la OneVille. Goals:
The OneVille Project’s pilot phase is ending, with specific efforts now seeded and living on. The effort at creating Parent Connector Networks may live on as OneVille, or maybe nothing literally titled "OneVille" will live on as such -- but all the work we seeded will grow.


1. Continue to improve the local communication infrastructure of public education. Create and test tools for supporting the people who share children, to communicate re. improving young people's lives.
Everyone on the project is continuing work on the specific tools and strategies we worked on in 2009-11/12. Many of us now hope to work with people in other communities to share communication tools and strategies that support collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.


2. Create direct usable access to knowledge about improving and increasing learning opportunities for young people. (Twitter? Video documentation? Wikis?)
In Somerville in 2011-12, The OneVille Project continued to do the following:


OneVille has been an attempt to create communication infrastructure within a district and schools, but the same infrastructure can support [[information-sharing nationally and beyond.]] Indeed, the ultimate scalable intervention in education may be organized local inquiry into ways of improving local education. And the most potent accountability model may be knowledgeable local stakeholders pressing each other toward doing “what works.”
:-Test texting with students and teachers at Full Circle/Next Wave. We will wrap up the OneVille texting pilot by sharing our ¡Ahas! about texting with youth-serving organizations in the Somerville community. We're also now working with partners at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to produce a teacher guide to safetly navigating the legal issues raised for those pioneering texting and other social media in schools.
So, what forms of information-sharing would help the public see existing education innovation, and catalyze more of it?
:-Parents and staff continued to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network at the Healey School.  
:-A pro bono developer in San Diego helped us complete the administrator and teacher dashboard views.
:-Students and teachers who began their work in the OneVille eportfolio pilot now are seeding ePortfolios across Somerville High School. Their Somerville High eportfolio website also helps next teachers and students exploring eportfolios: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.


Policy efforts alone cannot “fix” education from above; nor does knowledge on “what works” automatically get shared across localities. Instead, educators, mentors, families, and students themselves need direct access to the best knowledge available about improving and increasing learning opportunities for young people. So what forms of information-sharing would make this possible? We'll be exploring this.
In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub of the MacArthur Foundation, based at UC Irvine, and in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, we all hosted a small "working group" of OneVille participants and local researchers thinking about how youth and adults can innovate new uses of commonplace technologies in diverse communities. OneVille participants of all ages came to share their work and ideas with local colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, and Tufts. A key goal for the Working Group was to keep honing our online documentation -- this wiki's. What online reporting would best support other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities?


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All of the coauthors on this wiki continue to work on related work and will continue to write and speak publicly about what they have learned.


A few e.g.s of info-sharing models:
Mica, the original OneVille PI, has moved to San Diego for a new job as Professor of Education Studies and Director of CREATE (the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://create.ucsd.edu). There, with her new colleagues and community, she's extending the collaborative agenda sparked in the OneVille Project, testing next communication tools and strategies for enabling partnership between local K-12 teachers, families, young people, and university supporters. CREATE has particular strength in teacher professional development and youth mentoring/outreach, so Mica will now be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network supporters to youth and local teachers to each other. While working to build next ¡Ahas! in San Diego, she will remain a remote ally to Somerville.


Edutopia.
We know various OneVille participants will hone, over time and in collaboration with folks in multiple communities, free/low-cost communication tools and strategies enabling diverse supporters to collaborate in student success.


Peer 2 Peer University.
== The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.==


Connexions: http://cnx.org/content/m37276/latest/?collection=col11292/latest
We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things.  


IBM’s Reinventing Education initative (see Kanter’s “Change Toolkit.”).
===Want to talk further?===


Open Learning Initiative  (“Learn how to do xxx” videos – [stuff w/ right answers.] use for CREATE? http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/visual-communication-design
Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?  


MIT Open Software program
Contact point people directly at:


Lesley: e learning
:'''Dashboard''': Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Josh Wairi (jwairi@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)


:'''Eportfolio''': Susan Klimczak (klimczaksusan@gmail.com); Michelle Li (mli@k12.somerville.ma.us); Chris Glynn (cglynn@k12.somerville.ma.us) (extra questions can also go to Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)


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:'''Texting''': Uche Amaechi (amaechi@gmail.com); Maureen Robichaux (mrobichaux@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
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EXCESS HERE For example: how would such information best be organized, to avoid the information overload of the internet? We had an idea called an
:'''Parent Connector Network''': Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Tona DelMonico (tona_d@comcast.net) Ana Maria Nieto (amn956@mail.harvard.edu); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
=== Interaction Map ===
Create:


Graphic diagram with hyperlinks that will organize usable knowledge about exciting ways to improve education:
===How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?===
We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!


Tell us (contact the point people above or, mica.pollock@gmail.com):


Parent – Child      Caregiver – Child
*Did we format our examples in useful ways?
Neighbor – Child    Mentor - Child
*Did we offer too much information on what we did, or not enough?
Child – Child    Youth - Youth
*Do you want to know more about what we've been doing?
Teacher – Child    Administrator – Child
*Would you contact us to share what you've been doing?
Social worker  - Child
Parent –Teacher
Parent – Administrator
Community organizer  - Legislator


Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our [[Vision for OneVille documentation]]) and haven't resolved:


*  Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here. Eportfolio teachers made their own teacher-to-teacher videos as well on the Someville High School website: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.) 
*  How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?


==Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?==


 
Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online?
[[Other information-sharing efforts]]: [[Code for America]]: could a 311 line and citywide "dashboard" be used in education, to show quant data and, to support youth and adults to use cellphone and internet technology to make qualitative suggestions to improve schools?

Latest revision as of 09:45, 11 July 2012

Our next steps

The OneVille Project’s pilot phase is ending, with specific efforts now seeded and living on. The effort at creating Parent Connector Networks may live on as OneVille, or maybe nothing literally titled "OneVille" will live on as such -- but all the work we seeded will grow.

Everyone on the project is continuing work on the specific tools and strategies we worked on in 2009-11/12. Many of us now hope to work with people in other communities to share communication tools and strategies that support collaboration between the diverse people who share young people's lives.

In Somerville in 2011-12, The OneVille Project continued to do the following:

-Test texting with students and teachers at Full Circle/Next Wave. We will wrap up the OneVille texting pilot by sharing our ¡Ahas! about texting with youth-serving organizations in the Somerville community. We're also now working with partners at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to produce a teacher guide to safetly navigating the legal issues raised for those pioneering texting and other social media in schools.
-Parents and staff continued to develop the efforts of the Parent Connector Network at the Healey School.
-A pro bono developer in San Diego helped us complete the administrator and teacher dashboard views.
-Students and teachers who began their work in the OneVille eportfolio pilot now are seeding ePortfolios across Somerville High School. Their Somerville High eportfolio website also helps next teachers and students exploring eportfolios: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.

In 2011-12, with funding from the Digital Media and Learning Hub of the MacArthur Foundation, based at UC Irvine, and in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, we all hosted a small "working group" of OneVille participants and local researchers thinking about how youth and adults can innovate new uses of commonplace technologies in diverse communities. OneVille participants of all ages came to share their work and ideas with local colleagues from Harvard, MIT, Emerson, and Tufts. A key goal for the Working Group was to keep honing our online documentation -- this wiki's. What online reporting would best support other diverse communities exploring such uses of commonplace and low-cost tech in public school communities?

All of the coauthors on this wiki continue to work on related work and will continue to write and speak publicly about what they have learned.

Mica, the original OneVille PI, has moved to San Diego for a new job as Professor of Education Studies and Director of CREATE (the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence) at the University of California San Diego (http://create.ucsd.edu). There, with her new colleagues and community, she's extending the collaborative agenda sparked in the OneVille Project, testing next communication tools and strategies for enabling partnership between local K-12 teachers, families, young people, and university supporters. CREATE has particular strength in teacher professional development and youth mentoring/outreach, so Mica will now be working with West Coast colleagues to learn how to help network supporters to youth and local teachers to each other. While working to build next ¡Ahas! in San Diego, she will remain a remote ally to Somerville.

We know various OneVille participants will hone, over time and in collaboration with folks in multiple communities, free/low-cost communication tools and strategies enabling diverse supporters to collaborate in student success.

The Next Layer: Connecting to Folks Doing Similar Work in Other Communities.

We'd love to spark a lively exchange between people working on similar things.

Want to talk further?

Are you working on improving communications in your own school or community?

Contact point people directly at:

Dashboard: Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Josh Wairi (jwairi@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
Eportfolio: Susan Klimczak (klimczaksusan@gmail.com); Michelle Li (mli@k12.somerville.ma.us); Chris Glynn (cglynn@k12.somerville.ma.us) (extra questions can also go to Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
Texting: Uche Amaechi (amaechi@gmail.com); Maureen Robichaux (mrobichaux@k12.somerville.ma.us); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)
Parent Connector Network: Jedd Cohen (jic378@mail.harvard.edu); Tona DelMonico (tona_d@comcast.net) Ana Maria Nieto (amn956@mail.harvard.edu); Mica Pollock (mica.pollock@gmail.com)

How'd we do in sharing our own first efforts?

We want to connect to more people improving communications in public education and so, we've been experimenting with sharing our own work online!

Tell us (contact the point people above or, mica.pollock@gmail.com):

  • Did we format our examples in useful ways?
  • Did we offer too much information on what we did, or not enough?
  • Do you want to know more about what we've been doing?
  • Would you contact us to share what you've been doing?

Some issues we’ve been thinking about (related to our Vision for OneVille documentation) and haven't resolved:

  • Audience: can researchers, teachers, families, and youth all share one form of documentation? (That’s what we’ve tried to do here. Eportfolio teachers made their own teacher-to-teacher videos as well on the Someville High School website: http://sites.google.com/site/shseportfolio/.)
  • How do you most effectively show examples of local efforts and innovations in public education? How many words can you use? When might you use pictures or videos? How/when can words and visuals go together?

Another Next Layer: National Networks for Sharing Local Efforts Like These?

Think about it: What might happen if lots of youth, families, and educators started sharing out their educational innovations more generally, online?

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