Classroom Salon – A 21 st Century Meeting of the Minds
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Classroom Salon – A 21st Century Meeting of the Minds
David Kaufer, English Ananda Gunawardena, CSD
How can Social Learning enhanceLearning outcomes for Students?
Salon started in 2007 when we were Musing about Two Ancient Conundra:
• Can we motivate students to read?• Can we monitor their reading?
We turned these ancient questions into modern ones:• Can we enhance student understanding of texts
through social networking?
• Can we make these social networks contagious?
And We Built Salon:
A technology that transparently links
• annotation• data analysis • visualization
Leading To:
• Deeper Student Engagement• Social learning •Efficient and Effective Class Prep• Real Time Formative Assessment
And all you need to do is to upload or type a document into a Salon
Users Annotate by
Selecting
They Respond to Questions and can
Cite Textual Support.
They Build a Community with their Peers
Darker Shades Indicate more User Activity
UsersWho arePart of the hotspot
They monitor activity in their
community
Salon finds the buzz….
Take a Document with Thirty Five Users
Where are the Hotspots?
11 UsersCommented in the Highlighted
Areas
As we relax the requirements for a hotspotwe see more hotspots
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Here are all the
annotations
Collective attention is rare
All 35 users annotated over 60% of the text; But no 6 users annotated even the same 5%.
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Salon Supports Perspectives of Reading
• Students can select roles– moralists or pragmatists.
• Salon can filter annotations made from these different perspectives
Students identifying as
moralists had one pattern of
annotations
Students identifying as pragmatists had
another
Moralists and pragmatists cited
different regions of text to make their case
Social Mediaand
Knowledge Assets
Salon Can Form Communities of Readers of Popular Media
Salon Combines Social Media and Social Learning
Salon Enables Real Time Tracking of Knowledge Assets
So much knowledge from user annotations…
Salon is funded by
• National Science Foundation• Innovation Works• Heinz Foundation (through CTTEC) • And Lots of Talented People who Donated their Time
Who Uses Salon?
And many others that we’d list except that you then wouldn’t be able to read the slide.
• CMU Global Campuses• Allegheny Intermediate
Unit• University of Pittsburgh
Law School
• South Fayette Public Schools
• Qatar Academy• Grove City College
Salon is growing
And we invite you to
request an account @
http://classroomsalon.org
Thank you Salon Team• Yitz Francus• Reed McManigle• Ari Lightman• Babs Carrier• Aaron Tan• Dev Doshi• And many many others …..