Tecnologías para gestionar labores educativas y cotidianas
Doing Online Relearning through Information Skills (DORIS): Using Social Media in Higher Education
1. Learning 2.0,
August 21, 2012
By Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo
@judamasmas
2. Core Theories
Constructivist learning (Piaget/Dewey)
Critical constructivism (Kincheloe, 2005, 2008)
Role of social interaction in the development of cognition (Vygotsky,
1978; Ackerman, 1996; Mayer, 2004)
Dimensions of learning: cognitive, social, emotional (Illeris, 2003)
Information skills: access, use, evaluation (Lau, 2006)
Affinity Spaces (Gee, 2009)
Participatory Action Research in Education (Freire, Fals-Borda,
Whitehead &McNiff, McIntyre, Herr & Anderson)
3. Brief Epistemological Assumptions
The concepts of learning and knowledge are closely connected
Knowledge is created through socialization (Vygotsky, 1978;
Nonaka& Takeuchi, 1995) and can be discovered (Whitehead
&McNiff, 2006) as people possess tacit knowledge within (Polanyi,
1958).
Teachers are capable of generating personal theories by
systematically studying their practice (Whitehead, 1989)
4. What significant issues, challenges and opportunities emerge when social
media are integrated into learning environments in higher education?
a) How do students’ experience learning when they are engaged in a
learning activity that integrates social media?
b) In what ways is students’ engagement dependent upon their literacies?
c) In what way do learning, literacy and social media mutually shape each
other?
5. Machin-Mastromatteo (2010,2011,2012), built upon Bawden& Robinson
(2009)
Trust
Loss of identity
Emerging issues Machin-Mastromatteo (2012)
Crowdsourcing
Decision making Balance of
Quality control identities/voices/roles
Users’ satisfaction Fast changing features
Information overload Need for marketing SN
Permanence tools
Repackaging Users’ underestimation
Privacy
Negative
consequences
6. Information Literacy
as in Zurkowski (1974), Virkus (2003),
Tuominen, et al.(2005), Lau (2006)…
Digital Literacy (computer, ICT…)as
in Shapiro and Hughes (1996), Eshet-
Alkalai (2004)
New Literacies
as in Lankshear and Knobel (2007)
Literacies New
Literacies
7. Participatory Action Research
Self and collective reflection on the subject of study
Researcher is part of and makes interventions on research
Cyclical process of exploration, knowledge construction and action through
questioning, reflecting, investigating, developing plan implementing, refining,
questioning… (McIntyre, 2008)
PAR is a philosophy of life as much as a method, a sentiment as much as a conviction
(Fals-Borda, 1997)
PAR leads researchers into unfamiliar pathways… think in new ways… generating
provocative new ideas. (Whyte, Greenwood, & Lazes, 1989)
8. LIS Master
Divided in groups
Pilot Study (2011), Final Study (2012)
9. Collection of Data
Diagnostic Questionnaire
Blog
Social Learners’ Input
Class Discussions
Blog
Social Media Sites
Social Learners’ Reports
2nd Questionnaire
Interview
10. 1 Introduction
Diagnostic Questionnaire / Action Research / Methods / Literacies / SM
2 Access 3 Use 4 Evaluation
Issues of SM
User practices SM in organizations SM
Content curation
Information needs inlibraries
Creation of SM sites
Location / Selection Evaluation of SM
Tool integration
Accessibility issues
5 Wrap up
2nd Questionnaire / Interviews
Assignments:
Individual reflection on own use of SM (2)
Create social site for an information service (3)
Evaluate an established social site (4), revisit (3)