Kristin Hokanson

Traditional view of
knowledge
Learners are empty
vessels to be filled
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Today information is changing so rapidly
its hard to see what’s happening
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/98214831/in/photostream/

The Case for
Collaborative ~ Digital Learning
• Education is changing.
• Competition is changing internationally.
• The workplace, jobs, and skill demands
are changing.

Our world is Changing…

The Implications
• These changes, among others, are ushering
us toward a world where knowledge, power,
and productive capability will be more
dispersed than at any time in our history—a
world where value creation will be fast, fluid,
and persistently disruptive.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

The Challenge
• Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who
speak an outdated language (that of the
pre-digital age), are struggling to teach
a population that speaks an entirely
new language

Horizon Report 2007
Key trends affecting higher education—next 5 years
– One year or less
• Social Networking
• User-Created Content
– Two-Three Years
• Mobile Phones
• Virtual Worlds
– Four-Five Years
• New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
• Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Our Students
This is just the start...
• Make Phone Calls
• Send Text Messages
• Download Music
• Play Music
• Surf the Web
• Take Photos
• Send Photos
• Play Games
Image: 'iPhone'
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web 2.0
A Paradigm Shift
Image: 'Web'
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A Definition
• Web 2.0 refers to a
perceived second
generation of web-based
communities and hosted
services — such as social-
networking sites, wikis and
blogs — which facilitate
collaboration and sharing
between users.
Wikipedia.com

Principles of Web 1.0
•Reading
•Receiving
•Researching

what Web2.0 is all about
change from monologue to dialogue.
small loosely connected parts.
getting closer and creating communities.
collaboration and harnessing the power of
knowledge.
It’s about being agile and responding to
change.
It’s about learning fast.

Web 2.0
Allows us to
connect our kids
to…

Conversations…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartbrother/44226712/

http://www.go2web20.net/
Which are
powered by…

It is a conversation between…

Source: Nemertes Research Inc.

Vibrant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoguewhite/127756979/in/set-72057594105805030/

Emergent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/apophysis_rocks/376467264/

Fun

Compelling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ten0fnine/345525410/

and full of insight…

…if we choose to
Let our students
join.

it’s not about searching
it’s about finding, applying and creating
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Benefits
• A growing body of scholarship suggests
potential benefits of these forms of
participatory culture, including:
– opportunities for peer-to-peer learning,
– a changed attitude toward intellectual property,
– the diversification of cultural expression,
– the development of skills valued in the modern
workplace, and a more empowered conception of
citizenship.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Henry Jenkins

Impact on Learning
• Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy
from one of individual expression to
community involvement.
• The new literacies almost all involve social
skills developed through collaboration and
networking.
• These skills build on the foundation of
traditional literacy, research skills, technical
skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the
classroom.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Henry Jenkins

What we need to do…
• Teach kids how to access information
• Use tools for collaborating
• Use tools to communicate on the web
• Develop their own learning networks
• Understand social network implications
• Have fun

Learning from the
EXPERTS
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Tools to Connect:
Learning from your Network

Surveys & Polls
http://workshops.theconnectedclassroom.org

Online Classrooms
Welcome to Class…
DimDim Scribblink
My Vroom Skribl
Twiddla WizIQ

Wiki’s:
The ultimate collaboration tool
 Special web site
 allows visitors to add, remove, edit &
change content
 Not need access to or knowledge of
web publishing software
 Collaboration
 Group members work on common
document in common location

Wikipedia: Collaborative Encyclopedia
Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone

Wikipedia: Collaborative Encyclopedia
Being Edited in Real Time by Anyone
Talking about the importance of wikis for business, BusinessWeek
wrote in 2005:
Internet research firm Gartner Group predicts that wikis will become
mainstream collaboration tools in at least 50% of companies by 2009.
At Ann Arbor (Mich.)-based Soar Technology Inc., an artificial-
intelligence company that works on projects for the Office of Naval
Research, wikis enable the company to slash in half the time it takes to
complete projects. Soar engineer Jacob Crossman says that’s because
the wikis eliminate the usual flurry of back-and-forth attachments and
resulting document-version confusion that’s rife in e-mail. At Dresdner,
Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressive
adopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meeting
times have been whacked in half.

Wikis in Schools
• Business Education: Teacher Sharing
• Business Education: Student Sharing
• Computer Science Independent Study
• Science Collaboration
• Middle School Math
• Project Based Social Studies
• Literature Study

Social Networks: Connect Users
into Communities

Social Bookmarking
http://delicious.com/zemote
http://www.diigo.com/user/khokanson
Sample Educator Group
http://groups.diigo.com/groups/iroquois-west-cusd-10

Collaboration
Getting Students to
Record their reflections
COVER IT LIVE

Podcasting: Explained

Podcasting: Simple
http://snipurl.com/msmpodcasts
Sample Health “call ins”

Collaborative productivity
http://sites.google.com/gtools4teachers

Planning / Calendars

Blogging in Education

Blogging: In the Classroom
Students talk
about
The Debates
Investigate some
Educational Blogs

Aggregators
Netvibes Example:
Teacher of Graphic Communications & Printing Technology
Keeping Track of Student Blogs:
CPAVTS

Presentations
Student Created Game
Embedded on Class Wiki

Storytelling
Elementary Scrapbook made with Glogster
Animoto Case Studies in Education
Reading Olympics voicethread

Music and Audio

Flickr
social network for photo sharing

Fun with Flickr

Other ways to use Images

You-Tube
social network for sharing
videos

Video

It is easier to change the
location of a cemetery
than to change the school
curriculum.
Woodrow Wilson

The Bottom Line
The value is in the content and how you use it.
Not in the technology itself.
User involvement embellishes content.
Users can participate and produce their own content, or add to
others, not just passively sit back and watch the web go by.
Tagging gives content meaning.
Making it easier to identify, classify, manipulate share and recycle.
Users should be able to choose what they get, how they
get it, when they get it and where they get it.

What is possible…
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/
Collaborative global project between classrooms
in diverse geographical locations
 Camilla, GA (10th grade)
 Vienna, Austria (11th grade)
 Dhaka, Bangladesh (11th grade)
 Melbourne, Australia (11th grade)
 Shanghai, China (Media Literary)

Suggested Reading
• Wired Magazine
• The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman
• The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
• Tough Choices or Tough Times: The
Report of the New Commission on the
Skills of the American Workforce
• Wikinomics by by Tapscott and Williams