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Are Your Students REALLY Collaborating? Jon Orech Instructional Technology Coordinator Cooperative Learning Trainer South High School, Downers Grove, IL [email protected]
Transcript of Are your Students REALLY Collaborating
Are Your Students REALLY Collaborating?
Jon OrechInstructional Technology CoordinatorCooperative Learning TrainerSouth High School,Downers Grove, [email protected]
Conference Hash Tag:#ICE2010
Session Wiki:http://
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Web Presence
Email: [email protected] Blog: jonorech.blogspot.com Twitter, Delicious, etc, “jorech” Delicious tag: “collaboration” Digital Storytelling resource:
http://jonorech.wikispaces.com
What have you heard here at ICE that will impact student
learning?
What is the difference between Cooperation and
Collaboration?
How do you make your classroom a
“collaborative learning space”?
What about here?
Or here?
Or even here.
Web 2.0
Are you over the
Hoopla…
and ready to focus (again)
on learning?Handbook of Emerging Technologies for
Learning
(Siemens and Titterberger, 2009)
http://tinyurl.com/handbookemerging
BLOGS NING SOCIAL BOOKMARKING WIKIS
Wikis in the Classroom:Theory…
Wikis in the Classroom:Reality…
“Wiki” is a tool“Collaborative writing” is a process
Positive Interdependence
• Goal
• Role
• Environment x
• Resource
• Task
• Identity
IndividualAccountability
• Small Groups
• Frequent Assessment
• History
• Random questioning
Face to Face Interaction
• Preparation
• Revision
Group Processing
• Peer reflection
• Teacher interaction
Social Skills
• Netiquette x
• Negotiate revision
• Recognizing strengths
The final product…
MUST be valuable to others.
Lord of the Flies wiki
BioPediaChris Gales
Research
“Asynchronous writing results in richer communication” (Mabrito, 2006).
“Online collaborative writing produces higher quality writing than face-to-face collaboration” (Passig and Schwartz, 2007).Why?
Successful teaching today requires:
Experimentation.
Co-creation of content.
Relinquishing control.
Tolerance [encouragement] of failure.
Siemens and Titterberger
