The Seventh Open Classroom Conference Incubating Creativity and the Capacity for Innovation: Open Content, Social Networking Tools and Creative Learning for All 15-17 October 2009 Porto, Portugal Daria Grimaldi- Stanislao Smiraglia Department of Human and Social Science University of Cassino - Italy
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The Seventh Open Classroom Conference
Incubating Creativity and the Capacity for Innovation:
Open Content, Social Networking Tools and Creative Learning for All
15-17 October 2009Porto, Portugal
Daria Grimaldi- Stanislao Smiraglia Department of Human and Social Science
Learning 2.0 We decided to shift the attention towards a learning 2.0 to joining the historical and productive theories of the constructivist approach to multimedia learning
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
University of Cassino - Italy
to the new technologies which strongly enhance the culture of sharing.
As regards university teachings of Social Psychology (taught by Prof.Smiraglia at the Universities of Naples and Cassino) the role of technologies has been for many years central in didactic experimentation by the methodology of blended learning.
After five years of exploration of ICT potentials for University teaching, today these courses avails itself of two educational channels on line supporting and integrating face to face class
lessons: blog & e-book
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
From a psychosocial point of view, the usability guaranteed by a graphic, really immediate interface, as those ones characterizing the 2.0, makes it possible for users to express themselves with great simplicity and create new contents, sharing them immediately with the community to which they belong and obtaining by it a feedback in a more or less simultaneous way. It is just the sense of community which has a leading role in the cognitive structure of the social networking approach.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
Let’s see the Blog Within the categorization carried out by Riva (2008), as regards the instruments characterizing the web 2.0, the blog is identified as privileged example for describing the “expressive sites”, the main affordance of which is the possibility of creating and sharing its contents.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
University of Cassino - Italy
we have chosen to start remote courses with as less as possible functions, making the blog be essentially available as an instrument for studying into depth and debating the subjects dealt with in the classroom.
The blog has really got a more informal role within the identity negotiation and communication processes between students and with the teacher and the tutor, functioning as a real bridge between the classroom and the network.
According to the real meaning of “blended”, technologies perform the role of facilitating face to face didactics and offering an arena for exchanging ideas and deepening subjects which otherwise would not be well debated.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
To such an end each comment explicitly referring to other colleagues’ contributions or to other subjects introduced by the teacher into posts (by links to the text in question), referred to only as reflection and further investigation hints, has been considered relevant from the point of view of quality.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
University of Cassino - Italy
Students have been evalueted for their online partecipation.Have been explicitly requested them, to consciously, creatively and positively intervene into the debate, in order that each intervention could give an added value to discussion.
Scriptaweb is an e-learning system which takes place by the ‘book form’ but even more, it is a
‘community book’ because of the network of relations which are built around it, with moments of interaction and sharing of study experiences, of assessment of learning, of development of
integration tasks.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
University of Cassino - Italy
1. 2.
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The risk of learning mediated by technologies consists of the separation between contents to study and process into which to take part: we can run the risk of focusing our attention on the interaction process and practices to the detriment of the contents specific of the exam, often limited to the products specially created for online use.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
University of Cassino - Italy
In a blended university course, it is not possible to sacrifice the study of the text, however, as regards traditional texts, the study of books is inevitably deferred to a later moment than that of teaching and interaction, but by the ebook by Scriptaweb, it has been possible to integrate the different needs of the didactic model of a constructivist kind taking advantage of the use of the ICT.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
University of Cassino - Italy
With Scriptawebs’ tools each student can partecipates to the collaborative knowledge building, introducing in the book links, materials find in the Net or simply personal reflections.
The reason why we decided to use both blog and ebook is the possibility to join the informality of user generated media with safety contents.
For these reasons, it’s impossible to turn our face to the changes of the web 2.0, at least as it is impossible to ignore the delicate role of user-generated media in the quality of cultural development, expecially in relation with learning practicies.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science
The worst risk of the using web 2.0 is dilettantism, as well as sharing represents the decline of the ownership right.
As a research mentioned by Keen shows, if 77% of university students state not to consider a serious crime to copy the contents taken from the network (CAI research, Keen 2009) -whatever they are- it is evident that we find ourselves to face a problem which links the Internet, or rather its use, directly with culture. (Keen 2009)
On the other hand, since learning is a social activity, to have a medium like the Network allowing a huge socialization, can really change the nature of man and his knowledge. (Gallino 2000)
Conclusions
It is not an ideological attitude but it represents a need which is more and more urging within the world of politics and in the world of didactics, particularly in the world of university: the password is flexibility and education must take it into account in order to not deny that progress which it is the first one to help. The transformation needed does not only have an
influence on the means to be adopted, but rather shows itself as a deep alteration in the culture of developing culture.
Smiraglia Stanislao - Grimaldi Daria - Department of Human and Social Science