The 21st-Century College Classroom Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active Learning and Collaborative Learning Communities Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active Learning and Collaborative Learning Communities A Conversation with Barbara Ganley of Middlebury College and Ideas Unleashed! at the Vermont State Colleges
Writing Exercise What are your pedagogical goals? What challenges do you face in your teaching? How does technology intersect with these goals and challenges? What are you hoping to discuss today?
Setting the Stage The Net Generation Teaching Approaches New Literacies Subject Matter
The Net Generation: The Experiences & Expectations of Digital Natives
Personal Academic Integrating the Selves Purpose: Dialogue & Expression Audience: Self and Community Mode: Text: Staccato, dynamic Rip & Remix MySpace, YouTube Purpose: Knowledge Delivery Audience: Authoritative Other Mode:Text: Fossilized, formulaic discourse Word, Powerpoint The Writing Divide
Expectations: Balance “College students want faculty members to use information technology, but students nevertheless hunger for the human touch in courses as well, according to a new survey of 18,039 freshmen and seniors at 63 institutions.” Chronicle of Higher Education 11/05Chronicle of Higher Education
NEW LITERACIES Network Media Information Online
TEACHING APPROACHES
Factory-Model of Education
RELATIONSHIPS Learner Teacher Work World
Learning as a Social Activity
LEARNER AS A NODE IN A NETWORK
“Graduates can’t communicate well, they can’t work in teams, and they can’t think creatively.” Sir Ken Robinson in Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative
Can Social Computing Help Us To Negotiate These Challenges?
Learning the Discipline Learning New Literacies
Doing the Discipline Learning the Discipline Learning New Literacies
Blogging
Motherblog Connections: To the Course Course Portal Archives
Motherblog Connections: Informal Sharing
Motherblog Connections: To the World of Experts
Individual Blogs
Modeling Through Comments
Portfolio of Student Work
Reflective Practice -A student’s Blog
Blogs Invite Multimedia
Digital Stories
Podcasting & Audio Readings Summaries
“Blogging gives me a sense of infinity. The curriculum relies on ritual and structure, but with blogging, this curriculum is constantly expanding.” Student comment
Motherblogs and Learning Communities Belonging & Purpose-- Efficacy & Authenticity Intensifying of Classroom Experience-- Deep Learning Student-Centered, Constructivist, Connectivist Learning
I just want to add that after reading these comments I thought of one more blogging benefit. Last week I was on my blog, reading one of Megan's comments about landscape. A few minutes later, I travelled over Barbara's blog to take a look, and Megan had commented below my comment, this time about the idea of blogging. In a period of 10 minutes, I'd met Megan in two different contexts, and had "conversations" with her that, I doubt, we'd have had face to face. There's links on the internet that don't exist in real life. It's natural on blogs to think. It's not so natural in day to day life. -A Student’s Reflection
You’ll find me blogging my teaching and research at bgblogging mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging You’ll find me blogging my teaching and research at bgblogging mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging