+ Social learning + Web 2.0 ISTC 605/705

+ What is social learning? Pick one quote from one of the readings which you think represents or defines social learning Write it on the board

+ Theories of social learning “…characterized by a sharing of personal meaning and the validation of understanding through discourse” (Vaughan & Garrison, 2009, p. 62) Communities of inquiry Learning through networks Constructionism

+ “A new paradigm” (Lankshear & Knobel, 2007) One-way (transmission) vs. two-way (interaction) Top-down design vs. user design Formal vs. informal Individual vs. collaborative “learning about” vs. “learning to be” “applications” vs. “ethos” Participatory culture (Jenkins, 2006)

+ Participatory culture “…relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, … members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another” (Jenkins, 2006, p. 3). These acts of sharing, collaboration, and expression are enabled and supported by web-based digital technologies such as blogs, wikis, YouTube, and other social media.

+ Changing definitions… …changing values?

+ Knowledge “…how much one person [has] read and learned in isolation, or how knowledgeable a particular person is about different threads to grasp in order to gain access to other peers in different social networks” (Wiberg, 2007, p. 50) “shifted attention from access to information toward access to people” (Brown & Adler, 2008, as cited in Vaughan & Garrison, 2009, p. 62)

+ Knowledge “..where the learning processes, in terms of knowledge sharing, interaction, and collaboration take place” (Wiberg, 2007, p. 56) Distributed cognition

+ Interaction communication and collaboration (Vaughan & Garrison, 2009; Wiberg, 2007) (…does this also change what we mean by interactivity, in both technological and pedagogical terms?) “purposeful partnering to solve relevant problems ” ( Vaughan & Garrison, 2009, p. 81) “…allowing [students] to be active partners in the discovery and communication of new knowledge ” (Calandra & Harmon, 2009, p. 171)

+ Creativity and creation Creation of content (blog posts, mashups, discussion threads) Learning by doing/creating Practical inquiry User-created designs “…learning is facilitated by the act of building or constructing a public artifact” (p. 171)

+ Revisited by the ghost of user-driven design…

+ Web 2.0 ID Process

+ Thoughts? What are some of the parallels that you see between learning through networks and communities of inquiry? Is the Communities of Inquiry model useful in designing instruction that supports social learning through Web 2.0 technologies? Where do you see these theories fitting within the TPACK tech integration framework? What are the opportunities for social learning in formal classroom environments? …?