The Benefits and Challenges of Being Connected: Living, Learning, and Teaching in Virtual Spaces
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The document discusses the benefits and challenges of digital connectivity in education, highlighting the importance of digital tools for enhancing learning experiences and promoting civic engagement. It emphasizes critical engagement, collaboration, and multimodal approaches in the classroom while addressing the need for deeper inquiry into the role of technology in society. Additionally, the text provides various examples and tools to facilitate interactive learning and meaningful discussions among students.
The Benefits and Challenges of Being Connected: Living, Learning, and Teaching in Virtual Spaces
- 1. The Benefits and Challenges of Being Connected: Living, Learning, and Teaching in Virtual Spaces Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, rbeach@umn.edu handout on Google Docs https://goo.gl/IfQt4
- 10. “Internet addiction”? “relief valve” (boyd, 2015) ◦ Adolescents: extensive homework, test preparation, and scheduled activities ◦ “They aren’t addicted to the computer; they’re addicted to interaction, and being around their friends.”
- 11. Shift to digital literacies
- 12. Being connected
- 15. Digital tools: Affordances Affordances not “in” tool tool Activity Affordances created by teachers Activity tool
- 16. Types of tools/apps: Learning Replicant” apps ◦ reify ways of learning made possible by other tools such as flash-cards or calculator “Extender” apps ◦ “extend the learning experience in ways not otherwise possible except through app technology ((McLain, 2014, p. 196)
- 17. Multimodality
- 18. Multimodality: digital images/video Portraying problems/issues through images and video Evoking emotions leading to “how- come” questions about the status-quo Targeting groups to engage in civic engagement challenging the status- quo
- 19. ShowMe’s: dominant vs. recessive traits http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspgu ● Mother and father birds and baby bird
- 20. Critical Engagement: Interaction: target audiences Out the Window Project ◦ Youth create videos that 7 million LA bus riders view ◦ Pose questions related to civic issues within their neighborhoods
- 21. MindMeister: Concept Mapping in the Science Curriculum 1) Free-Form Tool allows for connecting ideas across complex concepts. 2) Using images and shapes provides enhanced opportunities for demonstrating knowledge to teachers and peers through multimodal production- in this case concept maps. Assignment: Create a concept Map to compare climate and weather
- 27. What caused the downfall of the Mayan civilization? Collaboration: Alternative perspectives
- 28. Shifts in Abby and Starfish’s Individual and Collaborative Stances Aesthetic Summarizer Thoughtful Gather Purposeful Summarizer Reflective Analyzer
- 29. Diigo Annotations: Collaborative Argumentative Writing
- 32. Affordances of Diigo: Collaborative Annotation
- 34. Results 77% of codes were categorized “response to peer” 20% of codes were categorized “response to text” 3% of codes were categorized “response to side conversation”
- 35. Results: Diigo Annotations 34% questioning, 22% integrating/connecting, 13% evaluating, 10% determining important ideas, 9% inferring, 8% reacting to other’s comments, 4% monitoring
- 36. Affordances: Collaboration, Visual: Student Voices When you’re doing it on paper and pencil you’re just learning from our own thoughts, on Diigo it is more faster and better. Easier. If it is on paper, you are not allowed to collaborate. It’s online. You can communicate with other people Sometimes the people who you know they don’t know the answer but if you post it online a lot of people will be online then they will probably answer for you.
- 37. Benefits: Annotations More active, critical reading Alternative perspectives Alternative response practices
- 38. Connectivist theory Knowledge resides in the network Networking literacies ◦ Defining identities and relationships ◦ Using multimodal presentations ◦ Linking between texts ◦ Interacting with others
- 39. Intertextuality/recontextualization Connectivism (Stephen Downes): Knowledge is a network phenomenon, to “know” something is to be organized in a certain way, to exhibit patterns of connectivity. To “learn” is to acquire certain patterns. This is as true for a community as it is for an individual.
- 41. Reviewers’ connections on Amazon: Infinite Jest
- 43. Wiki annotations to a Munro short story (Dobsen, 2006)
- 45. VoiceThread: Multiple audiences share responses to images
- 46. VoiceThread affordances practices • Collaborative shared reading • Audiences: annotations • Mediated by focus on same image • Learn from other’s perspectives • Multimodal production
- 47. Dinosaur extinction: Volcanos http://voicethread.com/share/245474 3/ ● http://voicethread.com/share/2454743/
- 48. Dinosaur extinction: Supernovas http://voicethread.com/share/254421 9/ ● http://voicethread.com/share/2544219/
- 50. Analysis: VoiceThread Annotations • 77%: inferences about causal relationships between phenomena • 23%: description of phenomena in images
- 51. Recontextualizing (Blommaert, 2005) ❖ Decontextualizing: removed from context ❖ Recontextualizing: ❖ place in new context ❖ Entextualizing: ❖ analyze as new text
- 54. Survey: Comparison of Use of Docs versus Paper or Word Processing
- 55. Writing letters on Google Docs ● Letters to Obama to argue for or against the Keystone Pipeline ● Students shared drafts and provided feedback using comments ● Students revised letters ● Students and teacher interviewed
- 56. Students’ Revisions of Drafts Across Time
- 57. M.’s drafts (from 564 to 574 to 590 to 605 words) with feedback from A. A: talk about the goal to lower CO2 levels to 350 ppm and how this will affect that This pipeline could also affect our goal of 350 ppm of Co2 in the atmosphere drastically! A lot of people fighting to lower Co2 would get really angry. I feel strongly that you should not approve the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. First of all,ly, getting the oil out of the sands will produce the tar sands will produce toxic waste and that toxic waste and could destroy habitats. A.: agreed to put in safety measures, like what?Also, TransCanada got a permit to waive away some rules and use thinner steel While it is true TransCanada agreed to put in safety measures, such as a shutoff valve and a remote controlled pipe plus, TransCanada got a permit to use thinner pipes to save money making it more dangerous! Wwhat if one of those safety measures were to fail and there were to be a huge oil spill?
- 58. Organizing assignments with Google Classrooms • Using Google Classroom • Using Goobric to create online rubrics
- 59. “Instructional Chain” Mapping: contrasting concepts Diigo: analyzing formulated arguments VoiceThread: building arguments using images based on carbon chains Google Docs: drawing on all of what they have learned
- 60. Personalizing learning • iChooseProject: Students • Select purpose and strategies • Select relevant apps http://ichoosetech.weebly.com
- 65. Digital feedback tools Stimulated recall (Abrams) • Pairs: screencasting • Math: “chalk talk” • ShowMe learning division
- 66. Audio/video response Audio response to Google Docs: Google Kaizena Video response to writing: Jing (5 minutes) Using Jing to give feedback Screencast-O-Matic (15 minutes) Explain Everything (link to Docs) Snag-It
- 67. Use of Google Forms for Feedback
- 68. Annotation feedback to images/video VoiceThread: teacher/peer feedback YouTube annotations or “Cards” (only your own videos) VideoNot.es Google Drive app VideoAnt My VideoAnt annotations: Benchmark students video production
- 69. iOS/Android Coaches Eye Sports, oral presentations, drama, music performance, science experiments, etc. Slow motion/freeze frame Student records self-reflections iOS 50% educators discount for 20
- 70. e-portfolios Process-based or storage e- portfolios Product-based or showcase Use blogs, wikis, or websites (Google Sites) iOS: Three Ring, Easy Portfolio Android: Three Ring, Easy Portfolio
- 71. Future research?? Challenge: technological boosterism: use of tools simply to engage students. Need more focus on how affordances foster critical inquiry even about the role of technology itself in society Handout on Google Docs https://goo.gl/IfQt4x