BOSS Moderation Day Teacher Librarians

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BOSSModeration DayTeacher - Librarians

• Clare Mitchell Thea van Os
• http//canberratls.wikispaces.com
• Guest or canberratls or sign on ?
• Marist College
• 4 March 2008

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Connected to Learning

• The Connected Classroom

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Producing Artefacts

• As Resnik says " learning is an active process in
  which people construct new understandings of the
  world around them through active exploration,
  experimentation, discussion and reflection. In
  short, people don't get ideas they make them.
• (Resnik, M. Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age)

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Nature of Collaborative Projects?

• Embraces a sense of the social nature of
  learning, and emphasise a social approach to the
  development of learning skills, work skills and
  life skills
• assigning responsibility primarily to the
  students

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Collaborative Learning Fosters

• cognitive skills
• critical thinking
• numeracy, literacy and visual communication
  skills
• skills in interpersonal understanding
• life long learning skills

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Features of Good Collaborative Projects

• the problem to be solved is an example of the
  types of problems found in the real world
• use of knowledge, skills and attributes that are
  part of the curriculum
• the problem can be solved by a small team of
  students, none of whom possesses the knowledge or
  skills to solve the problem alone, yet each of
  whom is able to contribute to the final product.

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Successful Collaborative Projects

• It can provide activities that encourage students
  to confront the logic of their own thinking,
  their own beliefs, and the accuracy of their
  understanding of previous learning.
• Nagata and Ronkowski 1991 in Adelaide University
  Leap into Collabotaion

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Features of Collaborative Projects.

• Students need to be encouraged to
• Learn together with others
• Develop their own questions and then to seek
  solutions
• Share resources
• Share in the task, bring different viewpoints and
  questions
• Cooperate and not compete

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Features of Collaborative Projects.

• Teachers need to
• develop good group development skills
• be a resource provider
• be an expert questioner
• design quality collaborative projects
• see the learning potential in the chaos
• support collaborative forms of assessment

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Successful Collaborative Projects

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Quality Teaching Scoping Collaborative Projects

• In order to achieve high level of Intellectual
  Quality, Quality Learning Environments,
  Significance
• What do you want the students to learn?
• Why does the learning matter?
• What are you going to get the students to do or
  to produce?
• How well do you expect them to do it?

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QTF Collaborative Projects ICT

• Addressing the Dimensions
• Intellectual Quality
• Deep Knowledge
• Problematic Knowledge
• Higher Order Thinking
• Substantive Communication
• Metalanguage
• Wiki, Robotics, Visual Representation of
  Knowledge Photostory Kahootz, Mind Maps, Blogs,
  Ethics, Online Research methodology

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QTF Collaborative Projects ICT

• Addressing the Dimensions
• Quality Learning Environments
• Explicit Quality Criteria
• Engagement
• High Expectations
• Artefact Knowledge representation
• Student Self Regulation
• Student Direction
• Online environments that give students choice of
  direction, Rubrics on artefact expectations,
  Gaming and Social Computing

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QTF Collaborative Projects ICT

• Addressing the Dimensions
• Significance
• Background Knowledge
• Knowledge Integration
• Connectedness
• Electronic Portfolios, Online Learning
  Environments (myinternet, moodle, wiki etc),
  Authentic tasks using Web 2.0

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Digital or e-Portfolios
Adapted from Barrett, 2005 in Transforming
Learning with ICT. Finger et al 2007
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Examples of Digital Portfolios

• http//web02.richerpicture.com/samples.php
• Mathematics guide to portfolio creation
• http//jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox
  /examples/seaver/geometryportfolio.htm
• What is lacking in most examples of Digital
  Portfolios is the Reflection Phase.

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Rubrics

• When designing a collaborative learning project,
  the teacher has the opportunity to assess
• students social interaction and development,
• on-line skills,
• creation of electronic resources
• or the gain of knowledge and understanding

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• Korea International School

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