toward a radically critical media education : a case on wiki pedagogical integration

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Toward a Radically Critical Media Education: A Case of Wiki Pedagogical Integration in Greece

Marianna Vivitsou PhD Scholar, Researcher

CICERO Learning, University of Helsinki

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Networked Sociality: Virtue or Vice? • “So what exactly are teens _doing_ on

MySpace? Simple: they're hanging out….. This is important in the development of a social worldview.” danah boyd, 2006 – SNSs profile grounded within the context of

offline friends & contacts (boyd, 2006; Zhao et al., 2008)

– Social presence sustained through ‘catching-up’ technologies (comments, status updates etc) (Miller, 2011)

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On the other hand… Collaborative Learning requires• Common goals & joint efforts toward problem

solving situations (Rochelle & Teasley 1995) • And negotiation targeting shared meaning,

cognitive field, knowledge (Nystrand 1986, Rogoff 1990; and others)


The Challenges• In what ways

– student networked sociality manifests ?– students approach collaboration ? – Teacher blended presence develops ?

Dimitris

Marianna

Alexandros


School BREAK migrates @Sch.I.P.

• Wiki technical functionalities allow for: – Combination of Collaboration…

• Collaborative content development • Editing & Commenting individually or not

– With Sociality: Creation & maintenance of pages • personal & of general interest

– + Visual element embeddedness • images & videos


Individual + Collective = (Sum)?

188 members (178S : 10T)

100 pages (52 : 48PP, 38S)

Plethora of Media

• 121 active (118S : 3T)• 26 admins (20S : 6T)

• 12 parent (environment, School, Web tools etc.)

• 31 sub-topics• 09 child-pages

• images, videos, other


Most Visited Pages

Main page (V=8094, C=589)

‘If I were the Education

Minister’ (V=1709, C=83)

‘Topics’ (V=1413, C=39)

‘A School with a Difference:

Between Now and the Future’

(V=935, C=54).

socialization

argumentation


Personal Pages

From the self to the external world

Visual Arts, Music, Flirting,

Friendship, Current news,

Obesity, Books & reading…

Profiles


The Study: Participants & Methods

• Qualitative Approach and Statistical analysis (SPSS) of quantitative data (questionnaires)

• Content Analysis – Questionnaire open-ended items– Student contributions

• page edits, comments

Male Female

School 1 23 38 61

School 2 31 43 74

School 3 10 15 25

64 96 160


Active participation/week

102 107

628

443

553

706

343

10

185200 186

175

133

427

706


Student perspective shifts

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Αρχικό Ύστερο

Ομάδα συνεργατών

Χώρος ανάπτυξης νέων υπεύθυνωνανθρώπων

Χώρος ανταλλαγής ιδεών

Στήριγμα – εφόδιο για το μέλλον

School as a Space for :

Collaboration

Personality growth

Idea exchange

Life Enhancement

Q1 Q2


Traditional School in DoubtΑρχικό Ύστερο

Schooling & Skill Development Mean St. dev. Mean St. dev.

Oral Communication 8,16 2,02 3,48 2,12

Written Communication 7,75 2,09 3,59 2,16

Internet Use 6,88 2,65 4,09 2,13

Willingness to Learn 6,39 3,00 3,41 2,03

Q1 Q2


@Social Virtual Space for…• Dialogue development • Collaboration & creativity boost; active participation (even for less

‘sociable’ students) • Peer learning & support; cognitive & meta-cognitive development • Student leadership & initiative • Emotion expressiveness • Real life requirements (“our parents will not always be able to

support us”): Self-efficacy, self-esteem • Collective thinking; understanding the ‘otherness’ (“we needed to

function not only as individuals but also as a team, and we did..”, “we managed to ‘see’ the other students’ perspective”

• Looking at reality Critically (“It would be great if the teachers allowed more space for us…” «Agree... The majority of the teachers… are restrictive… we can’t grow wings to fly away”»


The Difference• Networked Sociality & Content development

– Internet & services as Tools for Learning• Global perspective of the local, the regional, the

national – The Self, the Other, the Community

• Human relations – Negotiation, Conflict management

• (Shared) Knowledge (Co-)Construction


The School of the Future

Blends• Virtuality & Actuality• Synchronous &

@synchronous acts

Reconsiders Student-Teacher Roles • asymmetry reviewed• multiple actor

involvement

Negotiates curricular

specifications

Enhances Student & Teacher Mobility


Connective technologies as…

• Vehicles of educational change toward the School of the Future. In this space, content emerges out of the learners’ definitions of own needs in an on-going negotiation process.

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Toward a Radically Critical Media Education

• founded upon the principles of democratic, communitarian, global citizenship

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Mari@nna Vivitsou • Contact: [email protected]

Thank You for Your Attention!

Presentation based on: Vivitsou, Μ., Konetas, D., Gkikas, Αl., Kotoulas, V. (2009). From Social Networking to Web-based Collaborative Learning in Lower Secondary Education: A Case Study. In Proceedings 1st Conference Educational Sciences, University of Athens. Athens, 28-31 May 2009.

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