Welcome Students Near & Far

1. Welcome Students Near & Far to EDUC E-104 Theory and Practice of Web Pedagogies Week 3: Learning Communities Catalina Laserna, DPhil Wednesday, February 11, 2009

2. AGENDA • Learning Communities - articles you found • Intro to the article by Kate Bielaczyc and Allan Collins • Group work • Break • Discussion

3. Learning CommunitiesWhat did you find? • Small group work • Distance students- write brief summary to add to feedback form

4. Report back to group • Title and summary of article • Why relevant?

5. Learning Communities in the Classroom A reconceptulatization of educational Practice By Kate Bielaczyc and Allan Collins

6. Why Learning Communities? • Social-constructivist argument • Learning to learn argument • Multi-cultural argument

7. A framework • Goals of the community • Learning activities • Teacher and power relations • Resources • Discourse • Knowledge • Product

8. Knowledge Forum

9. Different Genres of Knowledge building games • Different Epistemic games

10. Inquiry Cycle - cont • INTU • A better theory • ……. • Putting out knowledge together

11. Start with WITIK What-I-think-I-understand • WITIK… What I think I know • INTU … ..I need to understand • My Theory • New Information

12. Establishing a learning Community

13. Note in inquiry cycle

14. Example of a “View”

15. Notes on a view

16. Developing own inquiry

17. NOTES with Scaffolds

18. One of the Last Views the group built

19. Group Work Three groups meet and describe the features for each case. Report back and compare and contrast how their case contrasts with other cases using the following table:

20. Analysis of Learning-Community Classrooms

21. Group reports

22. Principles for the Design of Effective Learning Communities Community Growth Emergent Goals Articulation of Goals Metacognitive (monitoring, awareness of known and not known, reflection) Beyond the Bounds Respect for others Failure Safe

23. Principles for the Design of Effective Learning Communities 7. Structural Dependence 8. Depth over Breath 9. Diverse Expertise 10. Multiple Ways to Participate 11. Sharing Principle 12. Negotiation Principle 13. Quality of Product Principle

24. Reflection • In what ways are you expecting to develop a learning community in your project? • What challenges and opportunities do you foresee? • Write a memo for your self - to be shred later in the CCDT

25. Lab tonight: The Yard

26. Next week: Unit 2 AFFORDANCES Starting with Gibson's seminal article, in this unit we introduce the concept of affordances • Readings • We can also discuss Cook and Brown on “dynamic affordances” p.389