Overview
This brief hybrid workshop provides an opportunity to explore potential uses of Web 2.0 for enhancing learning.
This brief hybrid workshop provides an opportunity to explore potential uses of Web 2.0 for enhancing learning.
While watching the eClip below, consider the following questions:
Watch this eClip that describes a real high school learning activity.
Take five minutes to think about one or more of the questions below. Then discuss your answers with a partner and share your thoughts with the group.
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (12-12/2004; updated 04-05-05)
George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
(George Siemen's concept of learning known as Connectivism has been adopted by many influential thinkers. This is the seminal article.)
E-Learning 2.0 (~2005?)
By Stephen Downes
eLearn Magazine
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1
(Articulate statement about the present state and future trends of e-Learning.)
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler
EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32.
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MindsonFireOpenEducationt/45823?time=1232813818
(Main points: Web 2.0 supports social learning; learning is a process of becoming an able participant - in a community; this model supports continual learning and the ability to respond to our constantly changing environment.)
Examples of use of Web 2.0 tools to enhance learning.