Collaborative Dialogic Learning through asynchronous Web 2.0 environments

Marianna Vivitsou PhD Candidate, Helsinki University

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Agenda

Media literacy / education Change, development, evolution

Active involvement in teaching & learning New roles

Learning through Collaboration

Web 2.0 / online environments

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The 21st century: an era of change

• Socio-political • Economic • Technological

Change in perspective

• Evolution, development

• Reconsideration

•Collaboration, co-creativity

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‘New’ trends in education

• Multi/ inter – disciplinary approaches

• Active participation • Dialogic interaction • Negotiation (meaning, processes) • Critical thinking • Decision-making

Project method

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Learning as a process…

• continuous & transformative • of (re)constructing mental schemata

through interaction; knowledge mediated by artefacts

• promoted in dialogic spaces• external-to-the-individual• facilitated by user-centered design

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Knowledge transmitter

Knowledge transformer

The educator as…

Increased awareness Improved competences

Pedagogical Technological Collaborative

Critical attitude

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The changing role of the educator

• Mediator • Facilitator • Coach

Support Guidance Encouragement

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Collaborative learning means…

• practicing meaning making in the context of joint activity (Koschmann, 1996), joint problem solving (Dillenbourg, 1999)

• the ways in which these practices are mediated through designed artefacts (Koschmann, 1996)

• "...a coordinated, synchronous activity that is the result of a continued attempt to construct and maintain a shared conception of a problem" (Roschelle & Teasley, 1995)

• collaborative setting characterised by four criteria: situation, interactions, processes and effects (Dillenbourg, 1999)

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Collaborative online tools

• Weblog • Wiki • Chat • Forum • E-mail • Videoconferenc

e

Synchronous Asynchronous

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(We)blog=?

• A journal? • A news

filter?• A story log?

Static website

•Reflection, self-expression; individual work

•Interaction; Collaborative work

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Blog types… and communities

• Single-authored • Multi-authored

Content…• personal • value-driven • focused • diverse

•Author-centric

•Topic-centric

•Boundaried

(White, 2006)

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A Weblog is…The meeting point of the individual, the community and people’s ideas (Efimova, 2004)

A place for data collection, communication and more effective collaboration (Sessums, 2006; Warlick, 2005);

A tool for…

Research (Mortensen & Walker, 2002)

Skills development (critical and analytical thinking; Eide & Eide, 2005)

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Wiki???

• Collaborative writing • Writing process reinforced • Educational use: tools for data

collection, reflection e-portfolios input for research project work

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•User control over data•User-friendliness • Textual content plus image, video etc •Communication, sharing, collaboration, •Active participation, social networking

Simply put…Educational Technology is facilitated by the use of collaborative Web 2.0 tools.

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1. Weblab: posters Educational use of blogs

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2. Weblab: topics

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3. Weblab: students’ comments

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Objectives, Interaction, Skills

Writing skills development, critical attitude, self-expression, peer-correction, text processing collaboratively

Group work

Individual work

Productive, collaborative, internet skills development

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Suggestions

• Newsletter for teachers and students• Dissemination of the advantages of

using weblogs for teaching and learning • Manual for beginners • Opinion and idea exchange • Collaborative student work • E-learning courses centrally organised

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Current trends

Group Network

Peripheral use Active participation

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Networking

Learners learn through connections

(Downes, 2007)

Networks as ecosystems diverse

autonomous open dialogic spaces

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Background theories & fields

• Constructivism, Constructionism (Vygotsky, 1978; Papert ,1980)

• Critical theory (Habermas, Mezirow, Brookfield)

• Collaborative learning (Dillenbourg et al., 1996)

• Connectivism (Siemens, 2004) • Human-computer interaction (Preece, 2001; Shneiderman et al., 2004)