The document discusses the potentials and pitfalls of digitally networked classrooms. It summarizes the experiences of a professor who designed various tasks using digital tools like Google Plus, Google Docs, and Google Slides to build a learning community in a face-to-face literature course. The tasks aimed to address pedagogical problems like how to design the digital learning space, strengthen reading strategies, promote collaboration, help students make connections between concepts, and understand the role of individuals in a network. Both what worked well and what didn't work for each task based on student engagement and outcomes are described. The document advocates leveraging digital tools but also addresses challenges like ensuring visibility, accountability, emotional comfort and avoiding one-dimensional interactions

1. Digitally Networked Classrooms
Potentials and Pitfalls
By Jaya Kannan
Director, Digital Learning
Digital Pedagogy Summer Institute
May 17 2016

2. Use charts to explain your ideasDigitally Networked Classroom
Image Courtesy - Networked Learning Pradigm by Participatory Learning
https://www.flickr.com/photos/49653615@N00/3677544652
Networked learning
is learning in which
information and
communications
technology (ICT) is
used to promote
connections: between
one learner and other
learners; between
learners and tutors;
between a learning
community and its
learning resources.
Goodyear, P., Banks, S., Hodgson, V., &
McConnell, D. (Eds.). (2006). Advances
in research on networked learning (Vol.
4). Springer Science & Business Media.

3. Use charts to explain your ideasREFLECTIONS ON MY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ENG 201 – Experiencing Literature Course
Fall 2015
Community
of Inquiry
Reader
Response Theory
Critical
Reading

4. ENG 201 Course description
British Imperialism in India
Thanks to Laurence Musgrove for this illustration of
the Reader Response theory
Image Courtesy: the Illustrated Professor
http://www.theillustratedprofessor.com/tag/reader-response-theory/
I linked the writings of
Gandhi and Orwell
My Pedagogical Focus – Applying the Reader Response Theory

5. Pedagogical Problem #1
How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?

6. Beyond threaded
discussions in
Blackboard
Large Class with
29students
Visibility
and
ACCESS
How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?
It’s a face-to-face class, mind you!

7. What is your idea of Experiencing Literature?
How to build a
learning
community?
Task design
using
Google Plus
Communities

8. What Worked?
◉ Common and single space
◉ Ease of interaction
◉ Media/video
◉ Polling
◉ Open Educational Resources
alternate approach - Digital Writing
What Didn’t?
◉ didn’t go beyond one IRF loop
IRF = Initiation, Response, Feedback
#1 - How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?

9. How to Design the Digital Learning Space ?
Watch a Video followed by a quiz
The Power
of
Networks
Video and
Quiz within
the same
space

10. Pedagogical Problem #2
How to strengthen reading strategies ?

11. How to strengthen reading strategies ?
Reading
Motivation
Issues ?
Task design
using
Google Slides
Tiers of interaction was
possible using Google
Slides.

12. What Worked?
◉Evidence building
◉empathy for peer’s challenge
◉links between tasks
What Didn’t?
◉the “Frustration with reading”
task became a cop-out for
aiming low
◉discussion was limited
◉I couldn’t channel the
conversation
#2: How to strengthen reading strategies ?

13. #3 - How to promote collaboration?
Duhigg, Charles. (2016, February 25). What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. The New York
Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-
perfect-team.html?_r=0

14. #3 - How to promote collaboration?
Collaboration
for critical
reading?
Task design
using
Google Docs

15. What Worked?
◉ Digital Annotation
◉ Inquiry through Questioning
◉ Multiple Perspectives
a QUALITY discourse - 42 comments
and not a single “I agree”
What Didn’t?
◉ some individuals in the class
were not so involved
◉ Accountability
#3: How to promote collaboration ?

16. Pedagogical Problem #4
How to see connections ?

17. ““Creativity is just connecting things. When you
ask creative people how they did something,
they feel a little guilty because they didn’t
really do it, they just saw something. It
seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s
because they were able to connect
experiences they’ve had and synthesize new
things.”
- Steve Jobs, Wired, February 1996

18. #4 - How to see connections ?
Example 1
Thematic
Analysis by
connecting
different
readings
Task design
using
Google Docs

19. ““Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we?
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no
Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story
ideas seem to come quite literally from
nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty
sky: two previously unrelated ideas come
together and make something new under the
sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to
recognize them when they show up.”
- “On Wriitng” , p 37.

20. #4: How to see Connections?
Example 2
Digital Story
Video
Google Plus
communities

21. What Worked?
◉Evidence-based
connections
◉Ownership of thematic
ideas
◉Openness to readings
from unfamiliar culture
What Didn’t?
◉Lacked depth in
explanation (AOT)
◉Sparks of ideas didn’t
grow into well-developed
arguments
#4: How to see connections ?

22. Pedagogical Problem #5
What is the role of the individual in a network?

23. “SOLICT IDEAS FROM INDIVIDUALS, NOT GROUPS
“According to decades of research, you get more and
better ideas if people are working alone in separate
rooms than if they are brainstorming in a group. When
people generate ideas together, most of the ideas never
get shared. Some members dominate the conversation,
others hold back to avoid looking foolish, and the whole
group tends to conform to the majority’s taste.”
-Adam Grant, How to build a culture of Originality, Harvard
Business Review, March 2016

24. #5: Individual in a Network ?
Evidence of
critical
analysis:
No two
students came
up with the
same idea
Task using
Google Doc

25. #5: Individual in a Network ?

26. What Worked?
◉the socio-affective factor =
caring about peers’ learning
◉Originality in thinking within a
certain semantic universe
◉power of peer learning
What Didn’t?
◉Emotional Comfort
◉Visibility/No hiding
#5: Individual in a Network ?

27. Let’s review some concepts
Common Space Collaboration Access
Privacy Tech Know-How Accountability
Potentials and Pitfalls
Emotional
Comfort

28. Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made and released
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