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Collaborative Dialogic Learning through asynchronous Web 2.0 environments
Marianna Vivitsou PhD Candidate, Helsinki University
04/13/23 Web-enhanced CDL 2
Agenda
Media literacy / education Change, development, evolution
Active involvement in teaching & learning New roles
Learning through Collaboration
Web 2.0 / online environments
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The 21st century: an era of change
• Socio-political • Economic • Technological
Change in perspective
• Evolution, development
• Reconsideration
•Collaboration, co-creativity
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‘New’ trends in education
• Multi/ inter – disciplinary approaches
• Active participation • Dialogic interaction • Negotiation (meaning, processes) • Critical thinking • Decision-making
Project method
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Learning as a process…
• continuous & transformative • of (re)constructing mental schemata
through interaction; knowledge mediated by artefacts
• promoted in dialogic spaces• external-to-the-individual• facilitated by user-centered design
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Knowledge transmitter
Knowledge transformer
The educator as…
Increased awareness Improved competences
Pedagogical Technological Collaborative
Critical attitude
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The changing role of the educator
• Mediator • Facilitator • Coach
Support Guidance Encouragement
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Collaborative learning means…
• practicing meaning making in the context of joint activity (Koschmann, 1996), joint problem solving (Dillenbourg, 1999)
• the ways in which these practices are mediated through designed artefacts (Koschmann, 1996)
• "...a coordinated, synchronous activity that is the result of a continued attempt to construct and maintain a shared conception of a problem" (Roschelle & Teasley, 1995)
• collaborative setting characterised by four criteria: situation, interactions, processes and effects (Dillenbourg, 1999)
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Collaborative online tools
• Weblog • Wiki • Chat • Forum • E-mail • Videoconferenc
e
Synchronous Asynchronous
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(We)blog=?
• A journal? • A news
filter?• A story log?
Static website
•Reflection, self-expression; individual work
•Interaction; Collaborative work
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Blog types… and communities
• Single-authored • Multi-authored
Content…• personal • value-driven • focused • diverse
•Author-centric
•Topic-centric
•Boundaried
(White, 2006)
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A Weblog is…The meeting point of the individual, the community and people’s ideas (Efimova, 2004)
A place for data collection, communication and more effective collaboration (Sessums, 2006; Warlick, 2005);
A tool for…
Research (Mortensen & Walker, 2002)
Skills development (critical and analytical thinking; Eide & Eide, 2005)
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Wiki???
• Collaborative writing • Writing process reinforced • Educational use: tools for data
collection, reflection e-portfolios input for research project work
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•User control over data•User-friendliness • Textual content plus image, video etc •Communication, sharing, collaboration, •Active participation, social networking
Simply put…Educational Technology is facilitated by the use of collaborative Web 2.0 tools.
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1. Weblab: posters Educational use of blogs
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2. Weblab: topics
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3. Weblab: students’ comments
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Objectives, Interaction, Skills
Writing skills development, critical attitude, self-expression, peer-correction, text processing collaboratively
Group work
Individual work
Productive, collaborative, internet skills development
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Suggestions
• Newsletter for teachers and students• Dissemination of the advantages of
using weblogs for teaching and learning • Manual for beginners • Opinion and idea exchange • Collaborative student work • E-learning courses centrally organised
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Current trends
Group Network
Peripheral use Active participation
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Networking
Learners learn through connections
(Downes, 2007)
Networks as ecosystems diverse
autonomous open dialogic spaces
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Background theories & fields
• Constructivism, Constructionism (Vygotsky, 1978; Papert ,1980)
• Critical theory (Habermas, Mezirow, Brookfield)
• Collaborative learning (Dillenbourg et al., 1996)
• Connectivism (Siemens, 2004) • Human-computer interaction (Preece, 2001; Shneiderman et al., 2004)