Classrooms as Social Networks - Interthinking
Sean McHugh
Possibly the most exciting aspects of the digital-age are the kinds of activities that encourage the unique ‘peer to peer’ interactions between students, and/or the teacher, within a shared, online space. The session will summarise the basis for this practiver from recent research, and share actual examples of classrooms interthinking using social networks from Grade 2 on iPads to MS and HS, crossing all sorts of subjects and curricula. Teachers will experience interthinking themselves, before collaborating on creating provocations themselves that they can use with their own students the following week. Participants will determine a suitable online environment to use that works for their institution (GSites, Wiki, Google Classroom, Blogger, etc.) and set up an online 'interthinking' space to use with their students. |
Details and Resources
The application of social networking in a classroom (interthinking) is one of those applications of tech that goes deep with educators - if you want to know what it feels like to embrace and RUN with a tech tool, this is the one; as you will see it takes (literally) a few minutes to post a provocation (maybe longer to actually think of a good provocation) then sit back and watch the group take it and transform it.
To make this session truly PRACTICAL, you'll be share an example of a digital 'artefact' that is commonly used in your school, eg poster/infographic, desktop published/word processed document, slideshow/presentation, movie, spreadsheet (yeah, right), image montage, podcasts/audio recording?
Step 2
Using someone else's' example, the group will 'audit' each example with the SAMMS lens, to determine which (if any) of the 5 SAMMS elements this product leverages. Then suggest how the artefact would/could be adapted to leverage the other SAMMS elements.
Resources:
http://doverdlc.blogspot.sg/2013/10/a-framework-for-transformational.html
http://doverdlc.blogspot.sg/search/label/Interthinking
https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/interthink/
The application of social networking in a classroom (interthinking) is one of those applications of tech that goes deep with educators - if you want to know what it feels like to embrace and RUN with a tech tool, this is the one; as you will see it takes (literally) a few minutes to post a provocation (maybe longer to actually think of a good provocation) then sit back and watch the group take it and transform it.
To make this session truly PRACTICAL, you'll be share an example of a digital 'artefact' that is commonly used in your school, eg poster/infographic, desktop published/word processed document, slideshow/presentation, movie, spreadsheet (yeah, right), image montage, podcasts/audio recording?
Step 2
Using someone else's' example, the group will 'audit' each example with the SAMMS lens, to determine which (if any) of the 5 SAMMS elements this product leverages. Then suggest how the artefact would/could be adapted to leverage the other SAMMS elements.
Resources:
http://doverdlc.blogspot.sg/2013/10/a-framework-for-transformational.html
http://doverdlc.blogspot.sg/search/label/Interthinking
https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/interthink/