Social Learning

Slide 1: Social Learning Pedagogy for the Connected Age

Slide 2: Fill in the Blanks (i) • “[This Device] appealed at once to the eye and to the ear, thus naturally forming the habit of attention, which is so difficult to form by the study of books. Whenever the pupil will not fully understand [it] will have the opportunity of enlarging and making more intelligible.”

Slide 3: Fill in the Blanks (ii) • “[These instruments are] not uncommon, but are little resorted to by the teacher.” • “The teacher almost knows as little how to use [it] as his pupils.” What are they talking about?

Slide 4: Educator Quotes from the 1840’s about the Chalkboard

Slide 5: Fill in the Blanks (iii) • “... the existing system is utterly inefficient. The teacher ... may pour it in the ear, or extract it from the printed page ... but unless he teaches through the eye, no satisfactory instruction can be conveyed.”

Slide 6: Sir David Brewer (1856) on the Magic Lantern

Slide 7: Fill in the Blanks (iv) • “[It] is going to make school so attractive that a big army of swords and guns couldn’t keep boys and girls out of it.” • “Mix [it] with education and you’ll have something that makes kids want to go to school. You’ll have to lick’em to keep ‘em away.”

Slide 8: Edison (1911) on Moving Pictures

Slide 9: open experiential democratic media multiliteracies collaborative web 2.0 constructivist empowering buzzwords connected school 2.0 new media engagement transparent digital creators vs. digital literacy consumers simulations

Slide 10: The Networked Teacher

Slide 11: Tools of the Social Web

Slide 12: Ed. Blogs

Slide 13: Wikis

Slide 14: Google Tools

Slide 15: Photosharing

Slide 16: Social Bookmarking

Slide 17: Podcasting

Slide 18: Video Sharing

Slide 19: Implications

Slide 20: Key Resources http://couros.wikispaces.com (wiki) http://commoncraft.com/show (videos) http://edtechtalk.com (online sessions) http://school20.ning.com (community) http://www.twitter.com (the network) subscribe, read, write, participate