The 21st-Century College Classroom

The 21st-Century College Classroom

Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active Learning

and Collaborative Learning Communities

Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active Learning

and Collaborative Learning Communities

A Conversation with Barbara Ganley of Middlebury College and Ideas Unleashed! at the Vermont State Colleges

Writing ExerciseWriting Exercise

• What are your pedagogical goals?

• What challenges do you face in your teaching?

• How does technology intersect with these goals and challenges?

• What are you hoping to discuss today?

Setting the StageSetting the Stage

The Net Generation

The Net Generation

Teaching

ApproachesNew

LiteraciesSubject Matter

The Net Generation: The Experiences & Expectations of Digital

Natives

Personal Academic

Integrating the Selves

Purpose: Dialogue & Expression

Audience: Self and Community

Mode: Text: Staccato, dynamic Rip & Remix MySpace, YouTube

Purpose: Knowledge Delivery

Audience: Authoritative Other

Mode: Text: Fossilized, formulaic

discourse Word, Powerpoint

The Writing Divide

Expectations: Balance

“College students want faculty members to use information technology, but students nevertheless hunger for the human touch in courses as well, according to a new survey of 18,039 freshmen and seniors at 63 institutions.” Chronicle of Higher Education 11/05

NEW LITERACIESNEW LITERACIES

NetworkNetwork

Media InformationOnline

TEACHING APPROACHES

Factory-Model of Education

RELATIONSHIPS

Learner Teacher Work World

Learning as a Social Activity

LEARNER AS A NODE IN A NETWORK

“Graduates can’t communicate well, they can’t work in teams,

and they can’t think creatively.”

Sir Ken Robinson in Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative

“Graduates can’t communicate well, they can’t work in teams,

and they can’t think creatively.”

Sir Ken Robinson in Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative

Can Social Computing Help Us To Negotiate These

Challenges?

Can Social Computing Help Us To Negotiate These

Challenges?

Learning the DisciplineLearning New

Literacies

Doing the Discipline

Learning the Discipline

Learning New Literacies

Blogging

Motherblog Connections: To the Course

Course Portal Archives

Motherblog Connections: Informal Sharing

Motherblog Connections: To the World of Experts

Individual Blogs

Modeling Through Comments

Portfolio of Student Work

Reflective Practice

-A student’s Blog

Blogs Invite Multimedia

Digital Stories

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Podcasting & Audio

Readings

Summaries

“Blogging gives me a sense of infinity.

The curriculum relies on ritual and structure,

but with blogging, this curriculum is constantly

expanding.”

Student comment

Motherblogs and Learning CommunitiesMotherblogs and Learning Communities

• Belonging & Purpose-- Efficacy & Authenticity

• Intensifying of Classroom Experience-- Deep Learning

• Student-Centered, Constructivist, Connectivist Learning

I just want to add that after reading these comments I thought of one more blogging benefit. Last week I was on my blog, reading one of Megan's comments about landscape. A few minutes later, I travelled over Barbara's blog to take a look, and Megan had commented below my comment, this time about the idea of blogging.In a period of 10 minutes, I'd met Megan in two different contexts, and had "conversations" with her that, I doubt, we'd have had face to face. There's links on the internet that don't exist in real life. It's natural on blogs to think. It's not so natural in day to day life.

-A Student’s Reflection

You’ll find me blogging my teaching and research at

bgbloggingmt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging

You’ll find me blogging my teaching and research at

bgbloggingmt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging