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Jessica Baker IDNT 531
What is social learning?What is social learning?
Learning through…Dialogue
Interaction
Negotiation
Classrooms are not designed to
be social. They are
designed to: Transfer, and Teach content.
Prepare for a complicated, not complex world.
…Being apart of
Curriculum Decision making Knowledge Creation Knowledge Contextualization
Why?
Children age 13-21 now spend more time online than they do in front of TV
65% of students grade 6-12 use e-mail/or instant messenger
54% of students go online for news, sports, weather, and entertainment updates
51% use graphic, design, photo, video editing, or music editing software
“The greatest advantage is that these are collaborative tools that allow people to work together simultaneously from any location. All anyone needs is an internet connection” – Solomon & Schrum
What we do with information determines the design of institutions!
Consider… Classrooms Libraries Research labs
What skills and mindsets are needed
to participate in today’s society?
It’s all about power and control
…and it’s sifting
If students now have the power to do what
teachers have done for them in the past, what should teachers do to take advantage of this
new reality?
What are they?
What do they do?
Participatory Social Networked “Edit
everything” approach to information
We do not need to know all the answers..but DO need a method to address changes and explore
problems and challenges!
What will you do to become digitally literate…today?
Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0 New Tools New Schools. Washington D.C : International Society in Technology for Education (ISTE).
Creative Commons Professor Coffman University of Mary Washington