Digitally Networked ClassroomsPotentials and Pitfalls

By Jaya KannanDirector, Digital Learning

Digital Pedagogy Summer Institute May 17 2016

Use charts to explain your ideasDigitally Networked Classroom

Image Courtesy - Networked Learning Pradigm by Participatory Learninghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/49653615@N00/3677544652

Networked learning is learning in which information and communications technology (ICT) is used to promote connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources.

Goodyear, P., Banks, S., Hodgson, V., & McConnell, D. (Eds.). (2006). Advances in research on networked learning (Vol. 4). Springer Science & Business Media.

Use charts to explain your ideasREFLECTIONS ON MY TEACHING EXPERIENCEENG 201 – Experiencing Literature Course

Fall 2015

Community of Inquiry

Reader Response Theory

Critical Reading

ENG 201 Course description British Imperialism in India

Thanks to Laurence Musgrove for this illustration of the Reader Response theoryImage Courtesy: the Illustrated Professorhttp://www.theillustratedprofessor.com/tag/reader-response-theory/

I linked the writings ofGandhi and Orwell

My Pedagogical Focus – Applying the Reader Response Theory

Pedagogical Problem #1How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?

Beyond threaded discussions in Blackboard

Large Class with

29 students

Visibility

and

ACCESS

How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?It’s a face-to-face class, mind you!

What is your idea of Experiencing Literature?

How to build a learning community?

Task design using Google Plus Communities

What Worked?

◉Common and single space◉Ease of interaction◉Media/video ◉Polling◉Open Educational Resources

alternate approach - Digital Writing

What Didn’t?

◉didn’t go beyond one IRF loopIRF = Initiation, Response, Feedback

#1 - How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?

How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?Watch a Video followed by a quiz

The Power of Networks

Video and Quiz within the same space

Pedagogical Problem #2How to strengthen reading strategies ?

How to strengthen reading strategies ?

Reading Motivation Issues ?

Task design using Google SlidesTiers of interaction was possible using Google Slides.

What Worked?

◉Evidence building ◉empathy for peer’s challenge◉links between tasks

What Didn’t?

◉the “Frustration with reading” task became a cop-out for aiming low◉discussion was limited◉I couldn’t channel the conversation

#2: How to strengthen reading strategies ?

#3 - How to promote collaboration?

Duhigg, Charles. (2016, February 25). What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?_r=0

#3 - How to promote collaboration?

Collaboration for critical reading?

Task design using Google Docs

What Worked?

◉Digital Annotation◉Inquiry through Questioning◉Multiple Perspectives

a QUALITY discourse - 42 comments and not a single “I agree”

What Didn’t?

◉some individuals in the class were not so involved ◉Accountability

#3: How to promote collaboration ?

Pedagogical Problem #4How to see connections ?

““Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”- Steve Jobs, Wired, February 1996

#4 - How to see connections ?Example 1

ThematicAnalysis by connecting different readings

Task design using Google Docs

““Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”- “On Wriitng” , p 37.

#4: How to see Connections?Example 2

Digital Story Video

Google Plus communities

What Worked?◉Evidence-based connections◉Ownership of thematic ideas◉Openness to readings from unfamiliar culture

What Didn’t?◉Lacked depth in explanation (AOT) ◉Sparks of ideas didn’t grow into well-developed arguments

#4: How to see connections ?

Pedagogical Problem #5What is the role of the individual in a network?

“SOLICT IDEAS FROM INDIVIDUALS, NOT GROUPS“According to decades of research, you get more and better ideas if people are working alone in separate rooms than if they are brainstorming in a group. When people generate ideas together, most of the ideas never get shared. Some members dominate the conversation, others hold back to avoid looking foolish, and the whole group tends to conform to the majority’s taste.”

-Adam Grant, How to build a culture of Originality, Harvard Business Review, March 2016

#5: Individual in a Network ?

Evidence of critical analysis:

No two students came up with the same idea

Task using Google Doc

#5: Individual in a Network ?

What Worked?

◉the socio-affective factor = caring about peers’ learning◉Originality in thinking within a certain semantic universe◉power of peer learning

What Didn’t?

◉Emotional Comfort◉Visibility/No hiding

#5: Individual in a Network ?

Let’s review some concepts

Common Space Collaboration Access

Privacy Tech Know-How Accountability

Potentials and Pitfalls

Emotional Comfort

Credits

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