Students in the sandbox - developing professionals?
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The document discusses several pedagogical approaches to online education. It outlines Martin Weller's view that complexity arises from how people collaborate online. It also discusses Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and how online learning allows interaction with more capable peers. Finally, it proposes that connectivism sees learning as connecting information sources and that maintaining connections is important for learning.
Students in the sandbox - developing professionals?
- 1. Students in the sandbox - developing professionals? A.J. Cann School of Biological Sciences University of Leicester UK www.slideshare.net/AJCann
- 2. Acknowledgements Jo Badge Neil Saunders
- 3. What do you do? Primary? Secondary? Tertiary (H.E.)? Postgraduate? Professionals?
- 4. Pedagogies of Online Education Martin Weller: A Pedagogy of Abundance Content is free and abundant Sharing is frictionless Social interaction is key Complexity resides in the network Complexity arises because people don’t collaborate The filter is significant http://tinyurl.com/2u67vkq www.flickr.com/photos/36439943@N06/4837687706
- 5. Pedagogies of Online Education Graham Attwell: Vygotsky and e-learning Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development - the gap between “actual development” which students can accomplish independently and the “potential development” which they can accomplish when interacting with others who are more capable peers or teachers. http://tinyurl.com/3yv2edq commons.wikimedia.org
- 6. Pedagogies of Online Education Terry Anderson: Connectivism Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions Learning is a process of connecting specialized information sources Learning may reside in non-human appliances Capacity to know more is more critical than what is known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate learning Ability to see connections is a core skill Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent Decision-making is itself a learning process www.flickr.com/photos/josemota/3203805974
- 7. That’s the way we’ve always done it Too much work Too many students Loss of quality etc www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/109591736
- 8. Quality? Does online = less? More with less - is it cheaper? More with less - is it quicker? Laboratory skills?
- 9. Personal Learning Environment Systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning Delicious / CiteULike Google Docs Google Reader PubMed / Google Scholar etc
- 11. Personal Learning Network The people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from - Information / technology overload - Peer networks - professional development? www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/3176725162
- 12. Peer networks - professional development? Friendfeed = Facebook but not Facebook Minimalist guidance Reflection Feedback Discussion (object centred)