The Social Learning Guidebook: Social Leadership Guidebooks

THE SOCIAL LEARNING GUIDEBOOK

A GUIDE FOR LEARNING TRANSFORMATION

JULIAN STODD

Sea Salt Publishing Sea Salt Publishing

© Julian Stodd, June 2018

All rights reserved. This book, or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United Kingdom.

First Printing, 2018

ISBN:

Paperback : 978-1-9165025-3-6

EBook : 978-1-9165025-0-5

Sea Salt Publishing

Bournemouth, Dorset

seasaltlearning.com

julianstodd.wordpress.com

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CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Overview

What you need to know:

Foundations of the Social Age

The New Nature of Knowledge

Formal and Social Systems : Dynamic Tension

Democratisation and Connectivity

Summary

2. Scaffolded Social Learning

A Design Approach

Co-Creative Behaviours

Assessment

Measurement

Space, Permission and Consequence

Summary

3. Social Learning Communities

Sense Making Entities

4. Mechanisms of Engagement

Rituals and Choreography

Hidden Communities

Sanctioned Subversion

Summary

5. Storytelling in Social Learning

Ownership and Control

Storytelling in Social Learning

Tribes and Trust

Summary

6. A Social Learning Culture

Further Exploration

INTRODUCTION

This short Social Learning Guidebook is not intended to have all the answers for how to implement Social Learning, and transform your organisational Learning Culture. Rather, it is meant to highlight areas for your consideration, offer some frameworks and models that you may want to adopt, and include activities that you can do along the way.

Every section includes boxed descriptions related to ‘What you should know’, and ‘What you should do’. These are not definitive, but intended to help you take the first steps.

This guidebook is the first of several guides to Learning Transformation. The next one will be ‘The Community Handbook’, and will explore how to create the right conditions for learning communities to thrive. If you are particularly interested in this work, check out more on my blog, ‘Learning Architecture’.

My previous work on ‘Learning Methodology’ [2013] covers more about the underlying learning science and pedagogy. If that’s something you’re interested in, be sure to check it out!

This book, like much of my work, is intended to iterate rapidly as my own understanding evolves, and to be rapidly disposable, as our research and practice within Sea Salt Learning develops.

For now, however, I hope that this book will contribute to your efforts to transform your Organisation.

Julian Stodd, 2018

@julianstodd

You can read more about Social Learning, and about the wider evolution of learning on my blog at www.julianstodd.wordpress.com

ONE

OVERVIEW

Social Learning is a story partly written by the learners themselves. It’s about tacit, tribal, lived wisdom; It’s the learning that exists within distributed communities. It is often untidy, diverse, and deeply personal, as people bring their own perspective and experiences into it. Moreover, it’s the mechanism by which