Each of my networks has changed the way that I learned to some degree. My educational networking sites have helped me to place technology in its special place when it comes to learning. My focus is no longer exclusively on the technology equipment but more on how to use the technology to assist in the learning experience. The people in my educational network have added an abundance of information to my overall network. There was so much that I did not know about, and basically, I took networking software such as Blogs, emails, YouTube, and Face book to be exclusively for socializing. Now, I understand how these sites can be used to aid in collaboration and transference of educational information.
My Learning Community members have enlightened me immensely about the procedures and various kinds of equipment and software that I wasn’t aware of but that they have been exposed to in their part of America. Talking with them and bouncing ideas around has changed the way that I learned because I generally look for things that I can do alone and not have to bother someone else to help me with. The connection that I have made with them and having these members around to brainstorm with has changed the way that I learn and has helped me to understand that I can learn more if I collaborate with a group rather than by myself.
A computer with Internet access is the digital tool that best facilitates learning for me. When something is confusing to me, I research it on the Internet in ask.com or google.com. These two sites take me to several links that I can use to assist with my understanding and build learning.
When I have questions or confusions about a new learning, it helps me if I create graphic organizers or mind maps. By constructing graphic organizers or mind maps, I am forced to put related information into an understandable format that aids in clarification.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Using Technology To Facilitate Collaborative Constructivist Principles
I feel that humans intrinsically will and can work together. Based on what I saw in Rheingold’s video, I think about the rule of supply and demand. Because of this, there is always going to be those who need something from someone else, and there will always be that group who has that supply of something ready to deliver in return for something else. The only way to get this cycle going and keep it going is by collaborating.
We may not like each other and we may not get along, but at certain times and in certain instances, we need each other. Right now, there exist the most unlikely human beings that you could ever imagine being and working together for the sake of education. Their politically, personal, and religious views could not be more different. Yet they have come together in a collaborative effort to find out what works and what needs to change in schools so as to move education forward. They are Newt Gingrich, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Arne Duncan, Public Education Secretary. To see the odd collaboration click the links below (it was posted as a 3-part series but I saw it in its entirety).
We can use technology to facilitate collaboration among learners based on constructivist principles by using the Internet. Use of Google.docs for students to collaboratively create a report is one example. We can use pod cast to give instructions to students to perform a learning task together and have it be a rule that this pod cast is the only help that they will be given. Then they will rely upon the members of the group to complete the assignment together. We could use SKYPE to visit and view students in other countries, and as the students are doing so, they could work together to construct biomes if the students are in one of the settings with sand, forests, or oceans. With the SKYPE, the students on each end of the camera will be able to construct models of the biomes.
A great example of real-life collaboration from which we all may benefit:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWWXARcqX8
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwqYnBqJBI
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yANobP-60yo
Reference
Howard Rheingold: Way-New Collaboration http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howare_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
posted by Carrie "Penny" Penagraph
We may not like each other and we may not get along, but at certain times and in certain instances, we need each other. Right now, there exist the most unlikely human beings that you could ever imagine being and working together for the sake of education. Their politically, personal, and religious views could not be more different. Yet they have come together in a collaborative effort to find out what works and what needs to change in schools so as to move education forward. They are Newt Gingrich, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Arne Duncan, Public Education Secretary. To see the odd collaboration click the links below (it was posted as a 3-part series but I saw it in its entirety).
We can use technology to facilitate collaboration among learners based on constructivist principles by using the Internet. Use of Google.docs for students to collaboratively create a report is one example. We can use pod cast to give instructions to students to perform a learning task together and have it be a rule that this pod cast is the only help that they will be given. Then they will rely upon the members of the group to complete the assignment together. We could use SKYPE to visit and view students in other countries, and as the students are doing so, they could work together to construct biomes if the students are in one of the settings with sand, forests, or oceans. With the SKYPE, the students on each end of the camera will be able to construct models of the biomes.
A great example of real-life collaboration from which we all may benefit:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWWXARcqX8
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwqYnBqJBI
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yANobP-60yo
Reference
Howard Rheingold: Way-New Collaboration http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howare_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
posted by Carrie "Penny" Penagraph
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