2. Goals for Todayâs Presentation
âą A look at how students are connecting to each
other OUTSIDE the school walls
âą A rationale for using these spaces in education
âą Best practices
âą Learning outcomes
âą Research on the value of collaborative learning
spaces
3. Karl Fisch
at
NECC 2007
Did You Know 2.0?
Shift Happens
TeacherTube Link
9. Whereas previous generations value loyalty, seniority,
security and authority, the NetGenâs norms reïŹect a desire
for creativity, social connectivity, fun, freedom, speed, and
diversity in their workplaces.
(Tapscott)
10. Shared online learning spaces provide opportunities
for students to quot;be human togetherquot; (Siemens)
17. To be literate, we must make meaning from
all the information that is
available to us - multi-modal information
audio
graphical
visual
tactile
symbolic/representational
23. quot;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.â
24. (Metacognitive skills
built)
âFrom 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.quot;
27. Outcomes: Skills Built
âą Multiliteracies
âą Self-Regulation/Metacognition
âą Communication Styles
âą Critical Thinking / ReïŹection
âą Synthesis and Summary
âą Info Literacy,Validation, Filtering
âą Negotiation and Collaboration
28. Research
âą Self-Regulated Learning / Metacognition (Ley
& Young, 2001, Hadwin & Winne, 1996,
Boekaerts, 2000)
âą Collaborative knowledge construction
environments (Jonassen 1995, Scardamalia &
Bereiter, 1994) - computers no longer
support ONLY individualized instruction
âą Improvement in motivation, learning and
problem-solving behaviour (Hoyles, Healy
and Pozzi, 1994)
29. Cool Tools & Online
Social Spaces
Wikis
Skype - Webcasting - Podcasting
Blogs
Google Docs
Content-Learning Management Systems
Personal Learning Environments
Full descriptions
30. Books of InïŹuence
The 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.)