The 21stCentury College Classroom

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The 21st-Century College Classroom
A Conversation with Barbara Ganley of Middlebury
College and Ideas Unleashed! at the Vermont
State Colleges

• Using Blogs and Digital Stories to Foster Active
  Learning
• and Collaborative Learning Communities

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Writing Exercise

• What are your pedagogical goals?

• What challenges do you face in your teaching?

• How does technology intersect with these goals
• and challenges?

• What are you hoping to discuss today?

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Setting the Stage

• The Net Generation

New Literacies
Teaching Approaches
Subject Matter
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The Net Generation The Experiences
Expectations of Digital Natives
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The Writing Divide
Integrating the Selves
Personal
Academic
Purpose Dialogue
Expression Audience Self and Community Mode
Text Staccato, dynamic
Rip Remix MySpace, YouTube
Purpose Knowledge Delivery Audience
Authoritative Other Mode Text Fossilized,
formulaic discourse Word,
Powerpoint
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Expectations Balance
College students want faculty members to use
information technology, but students
nevertheless hunger for the human touch in
courses as well, according to a new survey of
18,039 freshmen and seniors at 63 institutions.
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/05
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NEW LITERACIES

• Network

Information
Media
Online
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TEACHING APPROACHES
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Factory-Model of Education
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RELATIONSHIPS
Teacher
Work World
Learner
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Learning as a Social Activity
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LEARNER AS A NODE IN A NETWORK
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Graduates cant communicate well, they cant
work in teams, and they cant think
creatively.
Sir Ken Robinson in Out
of Our Minds
Learning to Be Creative
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Can Social Computing Help Us To Negotiate These
Challenges?
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Learning the Discipline
Learning New Literacies
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Learning the Discipline
Doing the Discipline
Learning New Literacies
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Blogging
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Motherblog Connections To the Course

Course Portal
Archives
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Motherblog Connections Informal Sharing
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Motherblog Connections To the World of Experts
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Individual Blogs
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Modeling Through Comments

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Portfolio of Student Work

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Reflective Practice
-A students Blog
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Blogs Invite Multimedia
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Digital Stories
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Podcasting Audio
Summaries
Readings
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Blogging gives me a sense of infinity. The
curriculum relies on ritual and structure, but
with blogging, this curriculum is constantly
expanding.
Student comment
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Motherblogs and Learning Communities

• Belonging Purpose-- Efficacy Authenticity
• Intensifying of Classroom Experience-- Deep
  Learning
• Student-Centered, Constructivist, Connectivist
  Learning

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I just want to add that after reading these
comments I thought of one more blogging benefit.
Last week I was on my blog, reading one of
Megan's comments about landscape. A few minutes
later, I travelled over Barbara's blog to take
a look, and Megan had commented below my
comment, this time about the idea of blogging. In
a period of 10 minutes, I'd met Megan in two
different contexts, and had "conversations" with
her that, I doubt, we'd have had face to face.
There's links on the internet that don't exist
in real life. It's natural on blogs to think.
It's not so natural in day to day life.
-A Students Reflection
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• Youll find me blogging my teaching and research
  at bgblogging
• mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblogging