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Wikis, Blogs, and Tweets, Oh My! Creating Avenues for Student Participation Through Digital

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Wikis, Blogs, and Tweets, Oh My!Creating Avenues for Student Participation Through Digital

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Dr. Kim JaxonCSU, Chico

Butte College Faculty SymposiumAugust 16, 2013

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A few 21st-Century Literacies...

AttentionParticipationCollaborationNetwork AwarenessGlobal ConsciousnessDesignNarrative, StorytellingSustainabilityLearning/Unlearning

Sources: NCTE, Cathy Davidson (HASTAC), Howard Rhiengold1010Thursday, August 15, 13

A few 21st-Century Literacies...

AttentionParticipationCollaborationNetwork AwarenessGlobal ConsciousnessDesignNarrative, StorytellingSustainabilityLearning/Unlearning

Sources: NCTE, Cathy Davidson (HASTAC), Howard Rhiengold

ParticipationCollaboration

Narrative, Storytelling


Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger Etienne Wenger

Learning as Social, as Participation


Theoretical FrameSocial Cognition/Situated Learning

Attention placed on: Identity, Participation, Material Conditions

Learning occurs in participation and social relationships, not “in the heads of individuals” (Hanks qtd. in Lave & Wenger, 1991)

Provides a framework for studying and understanding how individuals shape, are shaped by, and learn from, the

communities in which they participate

Shifts the unit of analysis away from a focus on the individual mind and towards social and material conditions that influence

learning and meaning making12


“knowledge and cognition is distributed across objects, individuals, artifacts, and tools in the environment”

--Ed Hutchins

Distributed Cognition


“the term participation describe[s] the social experience of living in the world in terms of membership in social communities and active involvement in social enterprises”

--Etienne Wenger


Designing structures for learning with these frameworks in mind...

One example: our large writing class:


Small Working Groups 10 Students + 1 Mentor

Further Divided into Permanent Group of 5


Key Structures

Small Research Teams:Permanent groups of five who establish norms together

Mentors: “More capable peers” (Vygotsky)

Wide Variety of Participation Structures: Use of social media and digital platforms as a way to open up

participation and support community building


Key Structures

Small Research Teams:Permanent groups of five who establish norms together

Mentors: “More capable peers” (Vygotsky)






How can I expand, create, complicate students’ stories?

How can I create multiple paths for student participation?

Questions that guide my use of technology (digital or not):


What are the stories we tell about students?


Basic

Slow ESL

Remedial

Fast

Honors Gifted

SmartSuccessful

EOPMotivatedLazyHigh Achieving

Frat BoySorority GirlLiberal Studies MajorBiology MajorEnglish Major

Butte College Student Chico State Student


Student roles: participation and distribution of expertise

Twitter “leads”Notetakers

Lexicon TeamsDiscussion Leaders

BloggersTumblr Review Board


Examples of platforms and students’ work...


Google Docs

Tumblr

Twitter

iPads/Smart Phones


Examples...


95% students at Chico State arrive with laptop, desktop, tablet or more than one of these devices.



42% have a printer.



EOP Summer 2013:40% come from high schools using Google Docs and/or iPads.93% coming with laptop in fall.

42% have a printer.


What are the stories we tell about students?


Preston

Boyd did her research in many different ways. One similar trend I’m starting to find is that all the people who study social media seem to immerse themselves in it. This one had to do primarily with friending on social media sites and one of the most popular websites for this I feel is myspace. She interviewed many people as part of her research. Not only did she interview many people but many of them were different ages. She did many surveys that she had many individuals participate in which really helped her out. I never really thought about doing surveys with people who use social media sites for knowledge and I think that’s very smart. Boyd is saying that there are controversies on the way that you so called “make friends” on these sites. Most the time people can add someone as a friend that they really know nothing about. Sometimes people can be complete enemies can be friends on these sites. One thing that causes controversy on these social media sites is the top friends, which you can do on myspace. It seems a bit ridiculous to pick a top 8 or 12 friends. There really is no ranking system for friends on these so you’re either on the top or you are completely ignored. I think it would be interesting if you were able to rank the person you are friend requesting and this way you would have a very intense structure of how well you know certain individuals. Boyd uses a couple different forms to back up here research. She uses some of her own experience and feelings but she primarily uses her interviews. She has many quotes to back up her claims. She has a name and quote for many different situations in this friend debate. I think this really helps her argument. 34


Being an international student I get this question so many times. What I also get asked about alot is where I'm from...which is too long to go into..I'm way into robotics but as it's a niche job I've decided to go into Mechatronic Engineering which is mechanical, electronics and software engineering...so Chico Statebcuz it's the first university in the United States to offer this course. So I'm very excited to be here for my course in this awesome university!...

Naomi


Don’t want to be classified as an Engineer...clinical, emotionless, robotic, planned, not that creative, mechanical...

Just realized I've been going thru absolute context collapse/collision this past month. wish I could quit life like u can quit using a site


Participation in your course


Write: Make a list of all the ways students can participate in your class in its current configuration. How do students come to understand the content of the course? How do they learn it? How do they demonstrate what they’ve learned?


Discuss: Share list with someone next to you.

Then, think about ways you can change participation and/or distribute some of the work of the class differently. What are new or additional ways students can become a participant in your class?


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