Are Your Students REALLY Collaborating? Jon Orech Instructional Technology Coordinator Cooperative Learning Trainer South High School, Downers Grove, IL [email protected]
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Are Your Students REALLY Collaborating?
Jon OrechInstructional Technology CoordinatorCooperative Learning TrainerSouth High School,Downers Grove, [email protected]
Conference Hash Tag:#METC_CSD
Session Wiki:metccollab.wikispaces.com
Web Presence
Email: [email protected] Blog: jonorech.blogspot.com Twitter, Delicious, etc, “jorech” Delicious tag: “collaboration” Digital Storytelling resource:
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What have you read recently that has impacted your
teaching?
What is the difference between Cooperation and
Collaboration?
How do you make your classroom a
“collaborative learning space”?
What about here?
Or here?
Or even here.
Web 2.0
Are you over the
Hoopla…
and ready to focus (again)
on learning?Handbook of Emerging Technologies for
Learning
(Siemens and Titterberger, 2009)
http://tinyurl.com/handbookemerging
BLOGS NING SOCIAL BOOKMARKING WIKIS
Wikis in the Classroom:Theory…
Wikis in the Classroom:Reality…
“Wiki” is a tool“Collaborative writing” is a process
Cooperative Learning (Johnson and Johnson)
Positive Interdependence Individual Accountability Group Processing Social Skills Face to Face Interaction
Positive Interdependence
• Goal
• Role
• Environment
• Resource
• Task
• Identity
IndividualAccountability
• Small Groups
• Frequent Assessment
• History
• Random questioning
Face to Face Interaction
• Preparation
• Revision
Group Processing
• Peer reflection
• Teacher interaction
Social Skills
• Netiquette
• Negotiate revision
• Recognizing strengths
The final product…
MUST be valuable to others.
Lord of the Flies wiki
Isabelle Menke
Research
“Asynchronous writing results in richer communication” (Mabrito, 2006).
“Online collaborative writing produces higher quality writing than face-to-face collaboration” (Passig and Schwartz, 2007).Why?
Successful teaching today requires:
Experimentation.
Co-creation of content.
Relinquishing control.
Tolerance [encouragement] of failure.
Siemens and Titterberger
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