Personal Displays of Connection: Flattening Classroom Walls for Meaningful Conversations

1. PERSONAL DISPLAYS
OF CONNECTION
Flattening Classroom Walls for Meaningful Conversations
Sharon Peters
M.A Ed. Tech.
LEARN. (Québec)

2. 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

3. Karl Fisch
at
NECC 2007
Did You Know 2.0?
Shift Happens
TeacherTube Link

4. The Web is Us/Using Us

5. The Web has become
our operating system

6. Grace
... on the topic of
backchanneling
iLike....
Matthew

7. Meg
Fictionpress - Simply Meg
ICT in Education - Music on the Internet
A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and
Social Spaces
Facebook

8. Nat
Runescape
YouTube for music videos

9. 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)

10. Shared online learning spaces provide opportunities
for students to quot;be human togetherquot; (Siemens)

14. Getting (and Keeping)
Connected
iGoogle - RSS feeds
Skype
Webcasting
Podcasts
Blogging
Twitter

15. Your Network is Your Filter. (Tapscott)
We learn from the company we keep. (Smith)

16. Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY
Literacy, simply put,
is about meaning-making
Quote taken from the Québec Education Program

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

18. Têtes à Claques

19. It’s all about AUDIENCE
Moist Continental
LCC Blogs

20. These tools offer
affordances
for students to making
meaning

21. Rationale - need for reflection
Taken from Québec Education Program

22. Taken from Québec Education Program

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.”

24. (Metacognitive skills
built)
“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.quot;

26. Best Practices
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Google docs
• Google Presentation
• Rubrics

27. Outcomes: Skills Built
• Multiliteracies
• Self-Regulation/Metacognition
• Communication Styles
• Critical Thinking / Reflection
• Synthesis and Summary
• Info Literacy,Validation, Filtering
• Negotiation and Collaboration

28. 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)

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 Influence
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.)

31. Sharon Peters
LEARN
sharonpeters@gmail.com
mtl-peters.net/blog