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Learning at Otava Folk High School - three paths to the destination Vilnius October 2nd 2010

Vilna three paths

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Presentation in a conference on web2.0 teaching in Vilnius October 2nd 2010

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Social Media Supporting Learningat Otava Folk High School

- three paths to the destination

Vilnius

October 2nd 2010

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Otava Folk High School established 1892

Upper Secondary School for Adults Online since 1996

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Openness 

• Open 24/7/12• Round the clock• Round the world• Access to the material• All courses available

non-stop 

  

Photo: Jukka Nikkilä

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Trust 

• No police or customs control• No exams• Possibility to choose

learning material 

  

Photo: Jukka Nikkilä

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Students 

• No police or

  Photos: Jere Lauha

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• No police or customs control• No exams• Possibility to choose

learning material 

  

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Buffet non-stop-courses 

• open any time• interaction between

two people• independent and flexible• skype, chat, e-mail etc.• might be lonely at the

dinner table

   

Photo: Drunken Monkey - CC Lisenssillä: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samsmith/31248686/

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Á la cartecollaboration courses  

• Reservation required• Working together• Wikis, discussion forums,

virtual conferencing  

Photo: Hanna Putkonen

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Kitchenphenomenon based learning  

• Learning to cook together• Grasping bigger entities,

real life phenomena• Integrating subjects• Various approaches• Students take active roles• Open and public learning

environment• Blogs, wikis,

video conferencing, social bookmarking etc.

   Photo: Hanna Putkonen

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From listening towards dialogue  

teacher – student

collaboration

technology and tools social media

Photo Jukka Nikkilä

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Social media change of culture  

• Hopping on a moving train• Taking risks• Tolerating uncertainty• Tolerating an uncomplete

world • Flexibility to change plans

while on the road  

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nj_dodge/97061524/

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Do we dare to let the students in the kitchen?

  

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Thank you!  

Taru KekkonenOtava Folk High School

Online Upper Secondary [email protected]

www.nettilukio.fi+358 44 794 3517

   

Photo: Jukka Nikkilä