Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 14 views
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In the iPod experiment, we were crowdsourcing educational innovation for a digital age. Crowdsourced thinking is very different from "credentialing," or relying on top-down expertise. If anything, crowdsourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be limited in what we conceive to be the problem, let alone the answer.
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David dale on 29 Mar 12Do we really want to discount expertise? Is expertise no longer valuable? I think we need the experts to participate as well.
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Interconnection was the part the students grasped before any of us did. Students who had grown up connected digitally gravitated to ways that the iPod could be used for collective learning
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Did kids who were in University in 2003 really grow up in a digitally connected world? Thant seems a bit early for be making that claim. I think this is important because, if they were not digitally literate for the previous 18 to 20 years, then they learned those skills on their own. That would mean that anyone could develop those skills and abillities.
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But it got me thinking: What if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in college—the term paper—and not necessarily intrinsic to a student's natural writing style or thought process? I hadn't thought of that until I read my students' lengthy, weekly blogs and saw the difference in quality. If students are trying to figure out what kind of writing we want in order to get a good grade, communication is secondary. What if "research paper" is a category that invites, even requires, linguistic and syntactic gobbledygook?
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Wow, I handn't thought of that. In order to write well, do you need an authentic audience? Do you need an authentic task?
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