Think about it! Encouraging reflection through new media

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Think about it!Encouraging reflection

through new media

Jan MarkovićAgnieszka Chrząszcz

Centre of e-Learning, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

Centre of e-Learning AGH

Online EDUCA Berlin 2009

Reflection

Careful thinking

Active

Conscious

Voluntary

Purposeful

Complex

Why reflect?

Deeper understanding

Personalization

Ownership

Development of metacognitive skills

Building a PDP

Obstacles?

Surface learning (learning as absorption and reproduction of facts)

Assessment based on surface learning

Curriculum and certificate driven learning

Why new media?

Common

Personal

Who are we?

Centre of e-Learning, AGH University Promote e-learning Research Develop and tutor online courses, adressed at

adult learners, mostly educators

Our goals?

Relate teaching to professional practice

Personalize learning process

Put our courses in context of life-long learning

Encourage creativity

Engage learners in meaningful conversations

How we promote reflection?

Give explicit instructions

Give good practice examples

Ask for reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action

Don’t let learners settle down on conclusions too easily...

...but help them settle down eventually

Give a choice of tools with various affordances

Tools - blogs

Reflection-in-action

Reflection on intermediate learning steps

Continuous commenting

Full ownership by learner

Tools – forums, wikis, collaboration software

Meaningful communication and exchane of ideas

Reciprocal relation between reflection and external feedback

Tutor modeartion and feedback: stimulation and summarizing

Tools for summarizing

Reflection-on-action

Getting the „big picture”

Mind-maps – for continuous building of the cognitive map of the subject area

Final written assignments – for summing up the work and building a narration

Tools - e-portfolios

Putting course learning in a broader context

Reflection on personal development

Building block for a life-long learning

Reflection on tools

Continuous reflection by learners and (us) tutors on new media, their: Role in education Affordances Limitations

Summary

Reflection beneficial for a learner

Reflection beneficial but needs to be stimulated and guided

LEs that include new media more open and personalized, thus beneficial for reflective learner

Jan Marković

jan.markovic@agh.edu.pl

Centre of e-Learning, AGH - University of Science and Technology

cel@agh.edu.pl

www.cel.agh.edu.pl

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