1. #NHSocialEdu
Melding Collaborative Learning with
Social Media
Catherine Lukianov
COM 600 Social Media Theory and Practice
April 18, 2013

2. Join the Conversation
#NHSocialEdu Blog Post
@LukiKit
+Kit Lukianov
#NHSocialEdu
CaLukian@syr.edu

3. Let's Create!
ExamTime.com

4. Purpose
Social Media + Education = ?
Learneradvise.com

5. Research Questions
1. What concepts in collaborative learning overlap with
social media?
2. How can social media be a tool for collaborative learning?
Mashable.com

6. What is Collaborative Learning?
● Working with others
● Common goal (Dooly, 2008)
● Students have control over what they learn (Dooly,
2008)
● Improve student learning (Carilli, 2013)
● Students are actively engaged (Cooper & Boyd, n.d.)

7. Other Learning Environments
● Peer learning
● Co-learning
● Partnered learning
● Cooperative learning
● Connected learning
● Participatory learning
www.Vanderbilt.edu

8. Learning Through Collaboration
● Partnered Learning
○ Partnering with peers, teachers, and others
● Co-Learning
○ Everyone is an expert

9. Partnered Learning
“The idea is that the teacher is not the
smartest person in the room. The
teacher does not have the answers...
The room is the smartest person ...we
are going to learn together.”
-Lisa Nielsen
@InnovativeEdu
TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com

10. Co-Learning
"(It) reflect(s) the idea that all the participants brought
valuable insights, research, opinions, to whatever the topic
was, even if there was an "expert" involved as well."
-Beth Lawton
BethLLawton@gmail.com

11. Learning & Collaboration
● Collision of ideas
● New perspectives:
“To make ourselves a bit more
critical, more knowledgeable,
and more empathetic”
-Alec Couros @courosa
EducationalTechnology.ca/couros/

12. Goals of learning environments
● Collaboration
● Engagement
● Motivation & Empowerment

13. What can be considered social
media?
Tools with a social component

14. A Social Medium
● Can it be used to share content and information?
● Can people communicate through it?
● Does it provide access to other individuals?

15. Forbes.com

16. What do social media bring to
learning environments?

17. Access to Information
"Independent learners can use
access to information and
communication tools to learn
outside the boundaries of
educational institutions, which
has never been widely possible
before.”
@hrheingold
-Howard Rheingold
rheingold.com

18. Access to Others
● Connecting with the world -Audio clip
● Share your passion
● Transform the community
@InnovativeEdu
TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com

19. Access to Networking
● Educational networking
● Embrace the "teachable moment!"
BethLLawton@gmail.com

20. True Innovation
● Connecting in new ways
○ Tools
○ Content
○ Networking
● Collision of ideas
● The "Accidental Teacher"
NewFrontiersInitiative.blogspot.com
@courosa
EducationalTechnology.
ca/couros/

21. Learning with social media
Collaboration, engagement, motivation & empowerment

22. Collaboration
Participation!
“Students... can perform for each other instead of just the
teacher, can co-learn and co-assess their learning.”
-Howard Rheingold
@hrheingold

23. Collaboration
Students are able to connect to a community that is
passionate about helping them learn.
-Alec Couros
@courosa
SocialBusinessNews.com

24. Engagement
"The immediacy of technological options such as email and
IM'ing offer me a much higher likelihood of engaging
another person in my learning process."
-Beth Lawton
BethLLawton@gmail.com

25. Engagement
When students know that they have the ability to change
something, they become engaged.
-Lisa Nielsen
@InnovativeEdu
Unitar.org

26. Motivation & Empowerment
“They could write something and the other person could see
it, it was incredible. I couldn't believe how excited this
made the kids.”
-Lisa Nielsen
@InnovativeEdu

27. Motivation & Empowerment
Students are "blown away by the connection, that someone
is actually reading (their work)... It changes and shapes the
way they actually work together."
-Alec Couros
@courosa

28. Which platform is best?

30. Thank You! #NHSocialEdu
For more information, questions, comments:
● @LukiKit
● +Kit Lukianov
● CaLukian [at] syr [dot] edu
● KitLukianov.WordPress.com
Catherine Lukianov
COM 600 Social Media Theory and Practice
April 18, 2013