1. Designing
a
New
Learning
Environment
Professor
Paul
Kim,
Stanford
University
Assignment
1
If
the
future
of
learning,
as
James
Paul
Gee
puts
it,
will
be
about
complex
thinking
and
complex
systems
(human
and
natural),
and
the
ability
to
collaborate
on
teams
that
are
smarter
than
the
smartest
person
on
them,
what
sort
of
learning
environments
and
education
technologies
can
help
teenagers
and
adults
prepare
for
21st
century
conversation
and
problem-‐solving?
“Twitter
is
an
online
social
networking
service
and
microblogging
service
that
enables
its
users
to
send
and
read
text-‐based
messages
of
up
to
140
characters,
known
as
tweets”
(Source:
Wikipedia)
Educators
are
increasingly
experimenting
with
social
media
to
increase
student
engagement.
Twitter
in
the
physical,
virtual
or
hybrid
classroom
setting
is
said
to
be
helping
to
move
significant
numbers
of
people
out
of
their
comfort
zones
into
discussions;
and
the
140-‐character
constraint
obliges
students
to
hone
arguments
and
strip
their
positions
down
to
the
essential
points.
It
enables
discussion
physically
and
remotely.
However,
to
date
there
is
very
little
research
examining
the
role
of
Twitter
in
an
educational
context.
Monica
Rankin,
a
professor
of
history
at
the
University
of
Texas,
Dallas,
uses
hashtag[s]
to
manage
comments,
questions
and
feedback
posted
by
students
to
Twitter
resulting
in
more
dynamic
class
discussions.
Similarly,
a
professor
at
Pennsylvania
State,
Cole
W.
Camplese,
encourages
back-‐
channel
interaction
during
his
classes.
Yet,
research
conducted
at
SUNY
Institute
regarding
the
use
of
Twitter
in
an
online
learning
environment
found
a
large
portion
of
graduate
students
“preferring
Twitter
not
to
be
used
in
future
courses”.
(Source:
The
Effects
of
Twitter
in
an
Online
Learning
Environment
by
Logan
Ruth
by
February
2011.).
![Designing
a
New
Learning
Environment
Professor
Paul
Kim,
Stanford
University
Assignment
1
If
the
future
of
learning,
as
James
Paul
Gee
puts
it,
will
be
about
complex
thinking
and
complex
systems
(human
and
natural),
and
the
ability
to
collaborate
on
teams
that
are
smarter
than
the
smartest
person
on
them,
what
sort
of
learning
environments
and
education
technologies
can
help
teenagers
and
adults
prepare
for
21st
century
conversation
and
problem-‐solving?
“Twitter
is
an
online
social
networking
service
and
microblogging
service
that
enables
its
users
to
send
and
read
text-‐based
messages
of
up
to
140
characters,
known
as
tweets”
(Source:
Wikipedia)
Educators
are
increasingly
experimenting
with
social
media
to
increase
student
engagement.
Twitter
in
the
physical,
virtual
or
hybrid
classroom
setting
is
said
to
be
helping
to
move
significant
numbers
of
people
out
of
their
comfort
zones
into
discussions;
and
the
140-‐character
constraint
obliges
students
to
hone
arguments
and
strip
their
positions
down
to
the
essential
points.
It
enables
discussion
physically
and
remotely.
However,
to
date
there
is
very
little
research
examining
the
role
of
Twitter
in
an
educational
context.
Monica
Rankin,
a
professor
of
history
at
the
University
of
Texas,
Dallas,
uses
hashtag[s]
to
manage
comments,
questions
and
feedback
posted
by
students
to
Twitter
resulting
in
more
dynamic
class
discussions.
Similarly,
a
professor
at
Pennsylvania
State,
Cole
W.
Camplese,
encourages
back-‐
channel
interaction
during
his
classes.
Yet,
research
conducted
at
SUNY
Institute
regarding
the
use
of
Twitter
in
an
online
learning
environment
found
a
large
portion
of
graduate
students
“preferring
Twitter
not
to
be
used
in
future
courses”.
(Source:
The
Effects
of
Twitter
in
an
Online
Learning
Environment
by
Logan
Ruth
by
February
2011.).](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/designinganewlearningenvironment-121028191108-phpapp01/85/Designing-a-new-learning-environment-1-320.jpg)
