When Face-to-Face Fails

Opportunities for Social Media to

Foster Collaborative Learning

Tamara Clegg, Jason Yip, June Ahn, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Michael Gubbels, Becky Lewittes, & Emily Rhodes

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Help learners see the personally relevant aspects of science

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Develop SCIENTIFIC

DISPOSITIONS

SOCIAL INTERACTIONS around Science

Productive Collaborations in Science

Sharing insights and ideas

Providing critiques

Observing strategies

Barron, 2003; Puntambekar, 2006

Challenges

stigmatizing low achievers

dysfunctional interactions

Blumenfeld, Marx, Soloway & Krajcik, 1996

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning has

focused on the cognitive aspects of learners’ collaboration

If we do not address the social aspects of collaboration, many learners will not experience the cognitive benefits.

Blended Learning

How can technology support face-to-face interaction?

Social Media for Supporting Learner

Collaboration

Ahn, Gubbels, Kim & Wu, 2012

Individuals make Micro-contributions to the inquiry process

Voting to Negotiate norms of quality

Is this a novel question?

Do you wonder about this?

Is this hypothesis evidence-based?

Aggregate Collaborative projects

How can SINQ promote productive collaborations in science?

Kitchen Chemistry

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After-school or summer camp learning environment

e.g., Clegg et al., 2006

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ContextTwelve week after-school program at a local private Montessori school

6 participants SINQ, StoryKit, & Zydeco

Facilitators: Kitchen Chemistry researchers

Older version of SINQ

Comparative Case StudyYin, 2003

Distractions and contributions to collaboration

Interactions with SINQ

Whole Group Conversation Woes

Learner arguments

Competing Foci Learners easily derailed

Talking out of turn

Unproductive experiences

Clegg et al., Submitted

Interactions

How do I make green brownies?

Freddie & Eric

More focused

Shifting social landscape

How does cinnamon relate to cinnamon rolls?

Idea seeds

Do you wonder about this?

How do they make cinnamon sticks?

Facilitated conversation with facilitators

Arman

Donna Jason Anthony

Physical Proximity

PUFFLES! Hard Sugar

Why are most candies hard?

How do you make a hard sugar?

Authorship & Physical Separation

Focus Using SINQ

Enhanced collaboration w/ facilitators

Shifts in social dynamic

Collaboration across groups

Clegg et al., Submitted

Implications

Facilitating scientific communication

A community repository of contributions

Multiple entry points into science

TAKE AWAYFactoring the

context into the design of technology

Questions@tlclegg@jasoncyip@ahnjune@ebonsign@mokogobo