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›UOCG/ Koos Winnips

Using social media to construct knowledge

“I store my knowledge in my friends”

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Contents

› Views on learning and knowledge› Web 2.0› Tools for sharing knowledge› Tryout tools

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Universities are knowledge creating institutions› A vision of students today› http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=channel› Knowledge?› Tacit/explicit knowledge› Sharing knowledge: is that possible?

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Working Playing

Learning

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Views on learning (Clark & Mayer, 2008)Architecture View on

learningInteractivity Use for

Receptive Information acquisition

Low Spreading information

Directive Response strengthening

Medium Procedure training

Guided discovery

Knowledge construction

High Strategic training, problem solving

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Web 2.0 / social media

› Ability to contribute to course materials

› Social media explained› http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia

› Questions:• For everyone? • Is the receptive model for everyone? • Homo zappiens? Generation X?

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Pro - contra› Pro

• Constructionism• Fits with working life • Active learning• Fits Generation X

• Tapscott: wikinomics• Surowieki: Wisdom of

the crowds…

› Against:• Time consuming• Teacher knows best• Attention - disturbance • Private-work balance

• A. Keen: The cult of the amateur

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Question left

› Changing roles› Teacher (coach, ) – learner (metacognition,

self-reliant learning, guided discovery) › Testing?

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How to use Web 2.0

› Keeping up with information› Sharing information› Cooperation› Managing your network› Creating content

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Blog / Weblog

› Collaborative tool, whole group› Online diary, with latest items posted on top› What to use it for:• Reflection• Read/writing skills• Commenting

› http://www.wordpress.com/› More info:

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0450.pdf

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LinkedIN

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Open Content

› Normally free to use• Merlot: www.merlot.org• Khan Academy:

http://www.khanacademy.org/• Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu

› Creative commons license

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Touchgraph - Facebook

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Augmented lectures: Project TuVA

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

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Slideshare (www.slideshare.net)

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Shared bookmarking: Del.icio.us

› Access bookmarks from everywhere› Organise by tags not folders› Share via Tags› http://www.delicious.com/

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Collaborative writing: Wiki (http://pbworks.com/)› Use:• Writing assignments• Meeting notes (ready when meeting is

ready!)

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Aggregator: Netvibes (www.netvibes.com)

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Information acquisition

Response strengthening

Knowledge construction

Open Content

Interactive voting systems

RSS readers

Aggregators

Shared bookmarking

MicroblogBlog

Collaborative writing

Collaborative mindmapping

Backchannel tools

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Using course tools

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Now you:

› Choose tools: Blog, LinkedIn, Open Content, TouchGraph, Augmented lectures, Slideshare, Delicious, PBWiki, Netvibes

› Ask yourself:• What would I hope to achieve with this tool?• Tryout• Evaluate: will this work?• Report back to group

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Thanks!Koos.winnips@rug.nlhttp://www.netvibes.com/kooswinnips