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FlockDraw: collaborative drawing!

FlockDraw: collaborative drawing!

edublog2008 winner (best educational wiki); Center for Global Teaching

The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration and creation. For inspiration and content material it draws on the work of Thomas Friedman and 'The World is Flat'. Read more about the project background and view 2006 and 2007 archives.

John Willinsky at Stanford University's School of Education (home): investigating publishing technologies and the various / new lines draw between public and private commons. Exploring the value of the public commons

Cacoo (free): diagrams & drawing in real time collaboration. Make site maps, wire frames, UML, and network charts.

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

As a research community agenda we might look to blend the conceptual power of organizational routines to shape group activities with the influence of a co-constructed and blended world around us. This is consistent with the blending, remixing, "Exceptionally designed to facilitate leading-edge research, the BRI draws businesses and researchers from around the world who leverage the facility for Qualitative Research: Focus Group and In-depth Interviews Experimental and Survey Research Consumer Behavior Studies Regional, National, and International Collaboration Videoconferences and Seminars Corporate Workshops