Wikis, Podcasts and Blogs: collaborative learning in Education

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Wikis, Podcasts and Blogs collaborative learning
in Education

• David Muir d.d.muir_at_strath.ac.uk

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A rose by any other name

• Geek speak?

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• Jargon?

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• Theyre doing it already!

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Start here!
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Start here!
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Aims of Learning
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Dearing

• sustain a culture which

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Dearing

• demands disciplined thinking

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Dearing

• encourages curiosity

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Dearing

• challenges existing ideas

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Dearing

• and generates new ones

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Aims of Learning

• Reflective practitioner

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Halliday

• willingness to riskones prejudices

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Leinhardt, Young Merriman

• available forpublic scrutiny

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Will Richardson

• Good enough to criticise

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• Web 1.0

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• One way

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• Web 2.0

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• The read/write web

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Seven Principles for Good Practice

• encourages contact between students and faculty,
• develops reciprocity and cooperation among
  students,
• encourages active learning,
• gives prompt feedback,
• emphasizes time on task,
• communicates high expectations, and
• respects diverse talents and ways of learning

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• http//del.icio.us/DavidDMuir/LEN
• d.d.muir_at_strath.ac.uk
• http//edcompblog.blogspot.com/