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PERSONAL DISPLAYS OF CONNECTION Flattening Classroom Walls for Meaningful Conversations Sharon Peters M.A Ed. Tech. LEARN. (Québec)
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Personal Displays of Connection: Flattening Classroom Walls for Meaningful Conversations
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PERSONAL DISPLAYS OF CONNECTION
Flattening Classroom Walls for Meaningful Conversations
Sharon PetersM.A Ed. Tech.
LEARN. (Québec)
Goals for Today’s Presentation
• A look at how students are connecting to each other OUTSIDE the school walls
• A rationale for using these spaces in education
• Best practices
• Learning outcomes
• Research on the value of collaborative learning spaces
Did You Know 2.0?
Shift HappensTeacherTube Link
Karl Fischat
NECC 2007
The Web is Us/Using Us
The Web has become our operating system
Grace
iLike....
... on the topic of backchanneling
Matthew
Meg
Fictionpress - Simply Meg
ICT in Education - Music on the Internet
A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and Social Spaces
Whereas previous generations value loyalty, seniority, security and authority, the NetGen’s norms reflect a desire for creativity, social connectivity, fun, freedom, speed, and
diversity in their workplaces.
(Tapscott)
Shared online learning spaces provide opportunities for students to "be human together" (Siemens)
Getting (and Keeping) Connected
iGoogle - RSS feedsSkype
WebcastingPodcastsBloggingTwitter
Your Network is Your Filter. (Tapscott)
We learn from the company we keep. (Smith)
Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Literacy, simply put,is about meaning-making
Quote taken from the Québec Education Program
To be literate, we must make meaning from all the information that is
available to us - multi-modal information
audiographical
visualtactile
symbolic/representational
Têtes à Claques
It’s all about AUDIENCE
Moist ContinentalLCC Blogs
These tools offer
affordancesfor students to making
meaning
Rationale - need for reflection
Taken from Québec Education Program
Taken from Québec Education Program
"From all of the work that we have done with other students, I have learned how to look over other people's
work and let them edit my own.”
“From working with other students, I also learned how to be patient and not always want things to happen at the exact moment I would like them
to, but rather wait and spend more time on something to make it even better."
(Metacognitive skills built)
Best Practices
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Google docs
• Google Presentation
• Rubrics
Outcomes: Skills Built• Multiliteracies
• Self-Regulation/Metacognition
• Communication Styles
• Critical Thinking / Reflection
• Synthesis and Summary
• Info Literacy, Validation, Filtering
• Negotiation and Collaboration
Research
• Self-Regulated Learning / Metacognition (Ley & Young, 2001, Hadwin & Winne, 1996, Boekaerts, 2000)
• Collaborative knowledge construction environments (Jonassen 1995, Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1994) - computers no longer support ONLY individualized instruction
• Improvement in motivation, learning and problem-solving behaviour (Hoyles, Healy and Pozzi, 1994)
Cool Tools & Online Social Spaces
Wikis
Skype - Webcasting - Podcasting
Blogs
Google Docs
Content-Learning Management Systems
Personal Learning Environments
Full descriptions
Books of InfluenceThe World is Flat - 3rd ed. (Thomas Friedman)
Wikinomics - (Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams)
A Whole New Mind (Daniel Pink)
Knowing Knowledge (George Siemens)
Coming of Age: An Intro to the New WWW (Terry Freedman, ed.)
