Networked Teacher Diagram - Update. Pagines.uab.cat/melindadooly/sites/pagines.uab.cat.melindadooly/files/Chpt1.pdf. Technology-in-Pedagogy-15. Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration. Collaborative learning | TED | Conversations. Collaborative Learning: Extending Learning Beyond the Classroom (Part 2 of 2) Part Two of a Two-Part Series. Read Part One, Collaborative Learning: Leveraging Social Learning Sites, here. The development and expansion of a new class of sites, Social Learning Sites (SLS), has enabled learners and their instructors to realize the benefits of the social web in academia. SLS provide the ability to expand one’s network by rapidly creating contacts to people, as with traditional social networking sites (SNS). In addition, SLS follow best practices for encouraging improved student learning outcomes and persistence to graduation. Decades of research on undergraduate learning has distilled several key principles which improve student learning.
Encouraging interaction between faculty and studentsDeveloping cooperation among studentsEncouraging active learningEmphasizing time on taskFacilitating student integration on campus SLS can be a key enabler of student achievement. ConnectYard is a member of the Cengage Learning MindShare Alliance. The Power of Social Media to Engage Students Online. Teachers should want to be where students are engaging. Today that means being online, said Lisa Nielsen, New York City Department of Education’s director of digital literacy and citizenship. Nielsen is also the brain behind the Innovative Educator blog and co-author of “Teaching Generation Text.”
When Nielsen looks back on her school days, she remembers being a good student, but she also remembers just not being that into it. What was going in the classroom really didn’t connect to what was going on in life, she said. With social media, teachers today have a chance to break through to students like Nielsen used to be. “I have always been really interested in giving kids a real voice in this world,” Nielsen said.
Early in her career, Nielsen saw elementary school students become engaged with writing when they were able to create something as simple as how-to books for real people to read. Technology has made reaching that real audience on real topics even easier. Connected Learning Infographic. Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it) | City Brights: Howard Rheingold. Post-Oprah and apres-Ashton, Twittermania is definitely sliding down the backlash slope of the hype cycle.
It’s not just the predictable wave of naysaying after the predictable waves of sliced-breadism and bandwagon-chasing. We’re beginning to see some data. Nielsen, the same people who do TV ratings, recently noted that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month. To me, this represents a perfect example of a media literacy issue: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. When I started requiring digital journalism students to learn how to use Twitter, I didn’t have the list of journalistic uses for Twitter that I have compiled by now.
One of my students asked me online why I use Twitter. Immediacy – it is a rolling present. A way to meet new people – it happens every day. Social Media And Behavior Study - Infographic. How does the (almost?) Daily use of social media and websites imply on users’ behavior? Does it have immediate effect on the way people think and more importantly search for new information? It may seem obvious that people change their habits with age, experience, social status and more importantly with the technology they use on a daily basis. An as the technology evolves, so do people – trying to be as much up-to-date with what’s going on in their fields of interests, valuing peers recommendations and discussing what’s new. In the “real world”, but now more than ever before – online through various platforms: e-mails, forums, chat, via messengers and of course in social media. Mankind made a huge progress in the last 20 years, almost everything is a few clicks away and this ease of access definitively altered our perspective on how we search for information and how users’ social behavior changed during this time period.
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