Web 2.0 brought the www to the periphery

Web 2.0 component: Social Web/Networking

Change: Teaching --> Learning Paradigm
"Post Course" Era: technology use such as social networking for
high impact practices

background & theory

definition

Web based services:
allow individuals to
(1) construct a profile
within a bounded system,
(2) articulate a list of other users:
share a connection/files
(3) view and traverse their's/other's
list of connections.

As an educational strategy: any of these services utilized to facilitate learning

examples

Wikis/blogs:
journal club, grand rounds
YouTube: lectures,tutorials

Pinterest,
Storify, Flickr:
curate, topic 'postcards'
Polls, WordCloud: visualization of
content or opinions

TedEd: 'flipping' class, interact

Facebook, NING: class 'wall'
Twitter: back-channel chat, trending

-promote-
-develop-
features that integrate with
learning goals

research

framework | strategy

It's important to develop high quality media-
good to have a guide, what to 'think' about-
also for evaluation,
re-evaluation

-Privacy
-Endogenous vs.
Exogenous Learning Goals
-Identity(self/social) vs. Identify(self/student)
-Need more research:
In context of
learning environment
itself

weaknesses

Online Games: collaborative, structured learning objectives

examples

review

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