Collaboration: Impact on the Changing Educational Landscape

1. Collaboration: Impact on the Changing Educational Landscape Dr. Baldev Singh

2. Outline How can technology support collaboration? What are 21st century skills needed for effective collaboration? What are some of the challenges and opportunities for educators?

3. ICT in Education: The report so far.. “Well done but lots of room for improvement...”

4. Time to reflect, learn and leapfrog!

5. Digital Opportunities projects in New Zealand Changes to student achievement are conditional on teachers changing their pedagogical approaches.... If this does not occur and laptops are used within the traditional classroom environment simply as word-processors and presentational devices.. then it is unlikely that improvements in student achievement or changes to classroom environments will be reported (Boyd, 2002) The use of laptops in classrooms: The lack of impact

6. Innovation framework

7. Research review: ICT in education Teacher training should not just encompass ICT skills but rather a full understanding and complete mastery of ICTs as pedagogical tools (Punie et al, 2008). The developments in ICT provide very different learning opportunities, and a need to design a new ‘integrated pedagogy’ has been identified (Cornu, 1995). A compelling rationale for using ICT in schools is its potential to act as a catalyst in transforming the teaching and learning process (Hawkridge, 1990).

8. Can we afford not to be ready?

9. Technology might be the answer, but what was the question?

10. The greatest changes of our times! Web 2.0 + Demographics

11. Web 2.0

12. Some facts! More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on social media…daily. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs. 120000 created daily and 2 blogs created per second (source Technocratic). Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest between the United States and Indonesia (note that Facebook is now creeping up – recently announced 300 million users)

14. Population Map

15. Define collaboration Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to achieve a common goal “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” African Proverb

16. Educational transformation process http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001295/129533e.pdf

17. What does research tell us about the value of collaborative learning? Students who studied in groups, even only once a week, were more engaged in their studies, were better prepared for class, and learned significantly more than students who worked on their own (Light 2001)

18. What does research tell us? Collaborative learning has as its main feature a structure that allows for student talk: students are supposed to talk with each other . . . and it is in this talking that much of the learning occurs (Golub 1988) It is about a change in the teacher-student relationship

19. New opportunities "Our exams have to reflect daily life in the classroom and daily life in the classroom has to reflect life in society” Minister of education

20. Students are ready to go!

21. Can you think of the one of the greatest collaborative projects of our times? May 2006: Complete human genome sequenced Multiple countries involved Supported through technology

24. School 2.0

26. ACTIVITY: Tell a story in 6 words

27. Skills audit

29. A new learning theory for the digital age

30. A new learning theory for the digital age Connectivism (Siemen 2005) Behaviorism Cognitivism Constructivism Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity.

31. Principles of connectivism Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.

32. Principles of connectivism Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Decision-making is itself a learning process. George Siemens 2005

33. Technology, Learning and Collaboration The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery (Seymour Papert)

34. Hole in the wall project "I love solving Maths problems. I find that very interesting. I have learnt it from my sister Raj. I have taught my friend Shilpa.“ Chanchal (Girl, 12) Self organised collaborative learning through technology

35. The emerging tools that can support collaboration

37. “My goal in life is to find ways in which children can use technology as a constructive medium to do things that they could not do before; to do things at a level of complexity that was not previously accessible to children” Prof. Seymour Papert 1998

38. The Moment

40. The Moment! www.photosynth.com

41. Presentation by Bruce Dixon

42. Blooms Taxonomy

43. Blooms Taxonomy revisited

44. Short video on collaborative work

45. Technologies and collaboration

46. Question? How can I help my students to externalise their ideas, share, develop and refine by collaborating with others?

47. Windows Live Movie Maker

48. Question? How can I support multiple ways of presenting ideas through audio visual tools which is not possible with pen and paper

49. Microsoft Surface

50. Question? How can I provide multiple opportunities for changing and revising in low risk environment