Social Software for Learning Environments
D’Arcy Norman weblogs.ucalgary.ca
- Creation of groups and blogs for learning
- Not a top-down learning environment, created by students
- Self aggregating community
Chris Lott http://www.chrislott.org/wiki/
Chris works as resident “disruptive technologist” at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for Distance Education, with a special emphasis on using social software for online learning, specifically to create a rational constructivist learning environment and functional classroom community of learners embedded in the real world community of practice.
- The third space — being an active learner for life
- Students will retain the records and archive for
- We need to disrupt the academy
- Computers are stupid, students are smart
- If the instution sponsors it, it’s a long time committment
- Information fluency is the next step from literacy
Jon Beasley-Murray Posthegemony
- Good to maintain tension between Higher Ed and Blogs
- Students can maintain blogs and disagree
- Critical thinking against the university as much as for it
- Risks of blogs from a tenure perspective “my university would never hire a blogger” attitude
- One of the great promises of blogging is that universities will be faced with student disagreement
- SCoPE Induviduals who share an interst in education, research and practice
- Blogging to enhance the learning experience
- How do you design the experience for education and collaboration?
- Grade 1 and 2 blog from teacher in MooseJaw