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

Facebook

Nat

Runescape

YouTube for music videos

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.)

Sharon PetersLEARN

sharonpeters@gmail.commtl-peters.net/blog