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