The Connected Classrom

Kristin Hokanson

Traditional view ofknowledge

Learners are emptyvessels to be filled

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Today information is changing so rapidlyits hard to see what’s happening

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• Education is changing.

• Competition is changing internationally.

• The workplace, jobs, and skill demandsare changing.

The Case forCollaborative ~ Digital Learning

Our world is Changing…

The Implications• These changes, among others, are ushering

us toward a world where knowledge, power,and productive capability will be moredispersed than at any time in our history—aworld where value creation will be fast, fluid,and persistently disruptive.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

The Challenge• Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who

speak an outdated language (that of thepre-digital age), are struggling to teacha population that speaks an entirelynew language

Horizon Report 2007Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years

– One year or less• Social Networking• User-Created Content

– Two-Three Years• Mobile Phones• Virtual Worlds

– Four-Five Years• New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication• Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

• Make Phone Calls• Send Text Messages• Download Music• Play Music• Surf the Web• Take Photos• Send Photos• Play Games

Our StudentsThis is just the start...

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web 2.0

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A Paradigm Shift

A Definition• Web 2.0 refers to a

perceived secondgeneration of web-basedcommunities and hostedservices — such as social-networking sites, wikis andblogs — which facilitatecollaboration and sharingbetween users.

Wikipedia.com

Principles of Web 1.0

•Reading

•Receiving

•Researching

change from monologue to dialogue.small loosely connected parts.getting closer and creating communities.collaboration and harnessing the power ofknowledge.It’s about being agile and responding tochange.It’s about learning fast.

what Web2.0 is all about

Web 2.0

Allows us to connect our kids

to…

Conversations…http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartbrother/44226712/

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Which arepowered by…

It is a conversation between…

Source: Nemertes Research Inc.

Vibrant

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Emergent

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Fun

Compelling

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and full of insight…

…if we choose to

Let our students join.

it’s not about searching it’s about finding, applying and creating

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Benefits• A growing body of scholarship suggests

potential benefits of these forms ofparticipatory culture, including:– opportunities for peer-to-peer learning,– a changed attitude toward intellectual property,– the diversification of cultural expression,– the development of skills valued in the modern

workplace, and a more empowered conception ofcitizenship.

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st CenturyHenry Jenkins

Impact on Learning• Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy

from one of individual expression tocommunity involvement.

• The new literacies almost all involve socialskills developed through collaboration andnetworking.

• These skills build on the foundation oftraditional literacy, research skills, technicalskills, and critical analysis skills taught in theclassroom.

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st CenturyHenry Jenkins

What we need to do…• Teach kids how to access information• Use tools for collaborating• Use tools to communicate on the web• Develop their own learning networks• Understand social network implications• Have fun

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Learning from theEXPERTS

SocialBookmarkingSocialNetworks Collaboration

PodcastsC

alendar /Scheduling

CollaborativeProductivity

Bloggingaggregators

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Tools to Connect:Learning from your Network

Netvibes

Surveys & Pollshttp://workshops.theconnectedclassroom.org

Online Classrooms

Welcome to Class…

DimDim Scribblink

My Vroom Skribl

Twiddla WizIQ

Wiki’s:The ultimate collaboration tool Special web site

allows visitors to add, remove, edit &change content

Not need access to or knowledge ofweb publishing software

Collaboration Group members work on common

document in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative EncyclopediaBeing Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Wikipedia: Collaborative EncyclopediaBeing Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Talking about the importance of wikis for business, BusinessWeekwrote in 2005:

Internet research firm Gartner Group predicts that wikis will becomemainstream collaboration tools in at least 50% of companies by 2009.

At Ann Arbor (Mich.)-based Soar Technology Inc., an artificial-intelligence company that works on projects for the Office of NavalResearch, wikis enable the company to slash in half the time it takes tocomplete projects. Soar engineer Jacob Crossman says that’s becausethe wikis eliminate the usual flurry of back-and-forth attachments andresulting document-version confusion that’s rife in e-mail. At Dresdner,Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressiveadopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meetingtimes have been whacked in half.

Wikis in Schools• Business Education: Teacher Sharing

• Business Education: Student Sharing

• Computer Science Independent Study

• Science Collaboration

• Middle School Math

• Project Based Social Studies

• Literature Study

Social Networks: Connect Usersinto Communities

Social Bookmarking

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Sample Educator Grouphttp://groups.diigo.com/groups/iroquois-west-cusd-10

Collaboration

Getting Students to

Record their reflections

COVER IT LIVE

Podcasting: Explained

Podcasting: Simple

http://snipurl.com/msmpodcastsSample Health “call ins”

Collaborative productivity

http://sites.google.com/gtools4teachers

Planning / Calendars

Blogging in Education

Blogging: In the Classroom

Students talkaboutThe DebatesInvestigate someEducational Blogs

Aggregators

Netvibes Example:Teacher of Graphic Communications & Printing Technology

Keeping Track of Student Blogs:CPAVTS

Presentations

Student Created GameEmbedded on Class Wiki

Storytelling

Elementary Scrapbook made with Glogster

Animoto Case Studies in Education

Reading Olympics voicethread

Music and Audio

Flickrsocial network for photo sharing

Fun with Flickr

Other ways to use Images

You-Tube social network for sharing

videos

Video

It is easier to change thelocation of a cemeterythan to change the schoolcurriculum.

Woodrow Wilson

The Bottom LineThe value is in the content and how you use it.

Not in the technology itself.

User involvement embellishes content.Users can participate and produce their own content, or add toothers, not just passively sit back and watch the web go by.

Tagging gives content meaning.Making it easier to identify, classify, manipulate share and recycle.

Users should be able to choose what they get, how theyget it, when they get it and where they get it.

What is possible…http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Collaborative global project between classrooms

in diverse geographical locations

Camilla, GA (10th grade)

Vienna, Austria (11th grade)

Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)

Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)

Shanghai, China (Media Literary)

Suggested Reading• Wired Magazine• The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson• Tough Choices or Tough Times: The

Report of the New Commission on theSkills of the American Workforce

• Wikinomics by by Tapscott and Williams