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#NHSocialEduMelding Collaborative Learning with
Social Media
Catherine LukianovCOM 600 Social Media Theory and Practice
April 18, 2013
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Let's Create!
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PurposeSocial Media + Education = ?
Learneradvise.com
Research Questions1. What concepts in collaborative learning overlap with social media?2. How can social media be a tool for collaborative learning?
Mashable.com
What is Collaborative Learning?
● Working with others
● Common goal (Dooly, 2008)
● Students have control over what they learn (Dooly, 2008)
● Improve student learning (Carilli, 2013)
● Students are actively engaged (Cooper & Boyd, n.d.)
Other Learning Environments
● Peer learning
● Co-learning
● Partnered learning
● Cooperative learning
● Connected learning
● Participatory learning
www.Vanderbilt.edu
Learning Through Collaboration
● Partnered Learning
○ Partnering with peers, teachers, and others
● Co-Learning
○ Everyone is an expert
Partnered Learning
“The idea is that the teacher is not the
smartest person in the room. The
teacher does not have the answers...
The room is the smartest person ...we
are going to learn together.”
-Lisa Nielsen @InnovativeEdu
TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com
Co-Learning
"(It) reflect(s) the idea that all the participants brought
valuable insights, research, opinions, to whatever the topic
was, even if there was an "expert" involved as well."
-Beth Lawton
Learning & Collaboration
● Collision of ideas
● New perspectives:
“To make ourselves a bit more
critical, more knowledgeable,
and more empathetic”
-Alec Couros @courosa
EducationalTechnology.ca/couros/
Goals of learning environments
● Collaboration
● Engagement
● Motivation & Empowerment
What can be considered social media?
Tools with a social component
A Social Medium
● Can it be used to share content and information?
● Can people communicate through it?
● Does it provide access to other individuals?
Forbes.com
What do social media bring to learning environments?
Access to Information"Independent learners can use
access to information and
communication tools to learn
outside the boundaries of
educational institutions, which
has never been widely possible
before.”
-Howard Rheingold @hrheingold
rheingold.com
Access to Others
● Connecting with the world -Audio clip
● Share your passion
● Transform the community
@InnovativeEduTheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com
True Innovation
● Connecting in new ways ○ Tools○ Content○ Networking
● Collision of ideas
● The "Accidental Teacher"
@courosaEducationalTechnology.
ca/couros/
NewFrontiersInitiative.blogspot.com
Learning with social mediaCollaboration, engagement, motivation & empowerment
Collaboration
Participation!
“Students... can perform for each other instead of just the
teacher, can co-learn and co-assess their learning.”
-Howard Rheingold@hrheingold
Collaboration
Students are able to connect to a community that is
passionate about helping them learn.
-Alec Couros@courosa
SocialBusinessNews.com
Engagement
"The immediacy of technological options such as email and
IM'ing offer me a much higher likelihood of engaging
another person in my learning process."
-Beth [email protected]
Engagement
When students know that they have the ability to change
something, they become engaged.
-Lisa Nielsen@InnovativeEdu
Unitar.org
Motivation & Empowerment
“They could write something and the other person could see
it, it was incredible. I couldn't believe how excited this
made the kids.”
-Lisa Nielsen@InnovativeEdu
Motivation & Empowerment
Students are "blown away by the connection, that someone
is actually reading (their work)... It changes and shapes the
way they actually work together."
-Alec Couros@courosa
Which platform is best?
Catherine LukianovCOM 600 Social Media Theory and Practice
April 18, 2013
Thank You! #NHSocialEduFor more information, questions, comments:
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● +Kit Lukianov
● CaLukian [at] syr [dot] edu
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