backchanneling in the classroom
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Backchanneling in the Classroom. School 2.0 [email protected]. What is Backchanneling?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What is Backchanneling?
First growing in popularity at technology conferences, backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where WiFi connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat like IM or AIM to actively communicate during class.
Why Backchannel?Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody (2009)
It changed interrupt logic.Note to Self became Note to World. High-quality text annotation.Less whispering, more \whispering.Alleviated boredom.
Vicky Davis (Cool Cat Teacher/WOW)Group note takingLink sharingQuick quizArchivable recordInvolvement of quieter students
Backchannel Basics
Tips & TermsGoogle Jockey (provides links, answers Qs)Backchannel Moderator (communicates with
teacher/speaker RE: Qs, issues)Backchannel Netiquette (answer questions with @)Get a Room (and a moderator)Be a link dropper
How We Used It …English FISHBOWL Discussions
Inner CircleOuter Circle
Spanish IV DiscussionsSmall Group ChatzyWhole Class Interludes
Create, Share, ConsumeThink wikipediaThink fan fictionThink online newspaper blog postsThink iTouch applications buildingThink MMOG (World of Warcraft)Think Second LifeTweetingTexting
Bottom Line?… look at every place that a reader or
a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, “If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen? And I'm betting the answer is yes.”
--Clay Shirky, 2008