Our
goal by engaging educators in digitally-connected, asynchronous forms of
collaborative learning was that they would gain an organic, authentic understanding
of what we (NML) mean by "participatory culture" - and thereby adopt the value
of its practices and bring them to their students and
districts.
WHAT TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 21ST CENTURY LITERACY - 2 views
The characteristics of participatory learning - 7 views
-
-
We originally intended the course to utilize our existing public Ning community as a way to offer transparency to this learning process and allow others in the NML community to tap in and learn from what the early adopters were doing. Though each of them was equipped to share a plethora of expertise and experience that would have undoubtedly been valued by the larger community, the idea of "failing in public" overrode their desire to contribute.
-
So is it little wonder that it was so difficult to get participation from educators (posing as students) while offering all the affordances that flexible learning has to offer?
- ...3 more annotations...
The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences d... - 8 views
-
Self-directed learning on open online networks is now a possibility as communication and resources can be combined to create learning environments. But is it really?
-
It is envisaged that learning is enhanced by four major types of activity:1) aggregation, access to and collection of a wide variety of resources to read, watch, or play; 2) relation, after reading, watching, or listening to some content, the learner might reflect and relate it to what he or she already knows or to earlier experiences; 3) creation, after this reflection and sense-making process, learners might create something of their own (i.e., a blog post, an account with a social bookmarking site, a new entry in a Moodle discussion) using any service on the Internet, such as Flickr, Second Life, Yahoo Groups, Facebook, YouTube, iGoogle, NetVibes, etc.; 4) sharing, learners might share their work with others on the network. This participation in activities is seen to be vital to learning.
-
Presence.
- ...4 more annotations...
1 - 5 of 5
Showing 20▼ items per page