Spheres

Spheres of Influence

Ec+i 831 Computers In The Classroom Feb 12, 2008

Sharon PetersLEARN

sharonpeters@gmail.commtl-peters.net/blog

“Understand the word, understand the world”

I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 minute movie, and level in an educational game.

“Teenagers (we) learn through relationship (networks)”

“Creeping Disconnection...”

Social Neuroscience

Grace

iLike....

... on the topic of backchanneling

Matthew

Meg

Meg

Fictionpress - Simply Meg

ICT in Education - Music on the Internet

A Real Teen Talks about Blogging and Social Spaces

Facebook

Nat

Runescape

YouTube for music videos

To be literate, we must make meaning from all the information that is

available to us - multi-modal information

audiographical

visualtactile

symbolic/representational

Rationale : LITERACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Literacy, simply put,is about meaning-making

Quote taken from the Québec Education Program

These tools offer

affordancesfor students to making

meaning

The need to include “visual grammar” into our frameworks of literacy

It’s all about AUDIENCE

Moist ContinentalLCC Blogs

Let’s Go Global! Online Collaborative Learning Projects

Sharon PetersLEARN

sharonpeters@gmail.commtl-peters.net/blog

Global Projects begin.....

...with Globally-Minded Educators

What did this globally-minded student have to say?

From a Neveh Channah student after receiving peer review from a student

from LCC:"Thank you for taking the time to read my paper. I was touched by your warm words and the gentle criticism. Yes, some of the spelling

should be edited and I didn't want to burden the reader with too many details and information....I would love to host you here in Jerusalem and to

join you personally on a walking tour through the streets of Nachlaot."

These partnerships provide opportunities for students to "be human together" (Siemens)

Skills BuiltMultiple Literacies:

digital, cultural, media

Cross-cultural communication

Critical thinkingSynthesis and

summaryInfo literacy, research,

validation, authentication of facts

Negotiation and collaboration

Award-winning Global Projects

•GVC Team 06 Wikispace - (2007 Silver Award Global Virtual Classroom Web Design Contest)

•From Jerusalem to Montréal - (2007 Silver Award ISTE SigTEL )

•Flat Classroom Project - (2007 Gold Award ISTE SigTEL)

•Technospud Projects (2006 Global Schoolnet Award)

"From all of the work that we have done with other students, I have learned how to look over other people's work and let them edit my own.”

“From working with other students, I also learned how to be patient and not always want things to happen at the

exact moment I would like them to, but rather wait and spend more time on something to make it even better."

- Matthew, grade 7

(Metacognitive skills built)

Karen Guth - teacher at Neveh Channah School in Etzion Bloc, Israel:"I would say that this

became a project that engaged the minds, skills, and hearts of our students. It turned the English

Bagrut project into an international research, writing, thinking, and teaching opportunity."

Other Portals • LEARN (Québec) site for Classroom Exchange

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• Israeli Pedagogical Network for Collaborative Learning

• Global Virtual Classroom

• Global SchoolNet

• iEARN

• Taking IT Global

• Teachers Without Borders (need for provincial coordinator)

Research•Self-Regulated Learning / Metacognition

(Ley & Young, 2001, Hadwin & Winne, 1996, Boekaerts, 2000)

•Collaborative knowledge construction environments (Jonassen 1995, Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1994) - computers no longer support ONLY individualized instruction

• Improvement in motivation, learning and problem-solving behaviour (Hoyles, Healy and Pozzi, 1994)

Your Network is Your Filter. (Tapscott)

We learn from the company we keep. (Smith)

Who is “the company” you keep?

What are your spheres of influence?