• Emerging trends in social software for education (Lee Bryant, Headshift) – download this chapter (828KB)
• Learning networks in practice (Stephen Downes, NRC) – download this chapter (867KB)
• The challenge of new digital literacies and the ‘hidden curriculum’ (Jo Twist, ippr) – download this chapter (738KB)
• How to teach with technology: keeping both teachers and students comfortable in an era of exponential change (Marc Prensky) – download this chapter (664KB)
• Games in education (Keri Facer, Futurelab; Tim Dumbleton, Becta) – download this chapter (949KB)
• Ubiquitous computing (David Ley, Becta) – download this chapter (1MB)

The social/situational orientation to learning 

Communities of practice 

Communities of Practices: learning as a social system (Best practices) 

Entrevista a Nancy Whites: Building Community With Online Communities – Part One

On parla de les bones pràctiques i característiques d’èxit de les comunitats online. Una de les potencialitats de l’us dels blocs en educació radica en compartir la informació i crear una comunitat amb interessos comuns, o traslladar una comunitat ja existent (una classe) a un entorn virtual.

 Què fa que una comunitat tingui èxit?

* Is the purpose clear? Shared?

* Is there the useful level of identity for members? (Sometimes anonymity is the key, sometimes it is not, for example)

* Is the means of interaction, the technology, appropriate to the community’s desired activities and technology inclinations? Techie communities may look technologically very different from communities that serve second wave adopters.

* Is there the right level of organization and facilitation? Different groups embrace more or less emergence or order. When I bake, I need a recipe so the cake rises and I follow it carefully. When I cook soup, it is taste, experiment and adjust. Communities need the same range.

* Is there the right balance of interaction and content. Content draws us and helps focus our attention. Interaction engages us, creates bonds that strengthen interaction.

* Is there the right level of trust? The recent situation with Kathy Sierra shows us that in our open, unbounded networks, we often don’t know enough to clearly figure out what is going on and that can be threatening or liberating.

* Are there enough bridge builders and connectors to weave the community together? These are really important actors in communities.

Tot això i més a l’article de Nancy White traduit al castellà aquí: http://www.gabinetedeinformatica.net/wp15/2007/03/24/blogs-y-comunidad-%c2%bflanzando-un-nuevo-paradigma-de-comunidad-online-nancy-white/

Bonnie Nardi fa referencia a un article sobre el constructivisme, “Farewell to constructivism: technology and ontext-embedded action” Adéu al constructivisme en entorns tecnològics???

http://bon-blog.blogspot.com/2006/03/farewell-to-constructivism.html

http://www.spbo.unibo.it/bologna/dipartim/dosp/testi/SSoICT-Ch8-Kallinikos2.pdf

i en un dels comentaris fa una definició de Grounded Theory interessant:

Grounded theory (Glaser and Strauss) is the development of concepts directly from field data, usually qualitative, but perhaps both qualitative and quantitative. To me it is a strategy for developing domain related concepts that are not part of activity theory (or whatever your theory is). Grounded theory usually results in mid-range “theories” or sets of concepts that do not have the sweep of e.g., actor-network theory or activity theory.

Sifry’s Alerts: Abril 2007The State of the Live Web, April 2007

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html 

• 70 million weblogs
• About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
• 1.4 new blogs every second
• 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
• Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
• 1.5 million posts per day, or…
• 17 posts per second
• Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
• 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 – up from 12 in the prior quarter
• Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
• English second at 33%
• Chinese third at 8%
• Italian fourth at 3%
• Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
• English the most even in postings around-the-clock
• Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
• 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
• 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February

by weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04062007/

¿Cómo te imaginas qué será tu blog dentro de cinco años?

Aunque es posible que dentro de cinco años ya no les llamemos blogs, creo que este medio concentrará nuestra presencia y nuestra identidad online. Un yo virtual con actividad real y memoria que gracias a mejores interfaces será una prolongación más transparente y ajustada de nuestra identidad en el mundo físico. Un avatar con el que se podrá interactuar en el mundo virtual utilizando los sentidos y el lenguaje natural, y una inteligencia y una memoria ejecutable en un dispositivo de hardware con el que podremos interactuar en el mundo físico.

J.L Orihuela contesta a aquesta pregunta en una entrevista.

http://www.tuexperto.com/2007/03/28/de-blog-en-blog-entrevista-con-jose-luis-orihuela-de-ecuaderno/

Workshop GREAV: Comunitats de pràctica i aprenentatge en entorns virtuals

algunes idees…

Característiques de les Com. Virtuals d’apren. (Barab et al.)

• Coneixements, valors i creences compartides
• Narratives comunes
• Interdependència mútua
• Mecanismes de reproducció
• Pràctica comú
• Oportunitats d’interacció i participació
• Relacions significatives
• Respecte a altres perspectives i a les visions minoritàries

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Una idea original d’un professor de la UCAM, consistent a crear un concurs de blogs a veure quin alumne aconsegueix posicionar primer a Gogle una paraula inventada.

http://laazotea.blogspot.com/2007/02/concurso-de-posicionamiento-para.html

http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/farmer.htmlJames Farmer

“I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child’s powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself”. (Dewey 1897, p. 77)

Aquesta cita cobra tot el sentit i modernitat, 110 anys després, en el context tecnològic actual.

“…only through communication can human life hold meaning. The teacher’s thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students’ thinking. The teacher cannot think for her students, nor can she impose her thought on them. Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. (Freire 1970)
Derek Powazek in Design for Community (2002) describes how different tools promote different forms of interaction on the Web and in particular how these tools are situated (for example, behind administratively controlled authentication systems or controlled through karma points) impacts dramatically on the kind of interactions that take place within them.
…the focus has tended to be on what can be achieved through particular technologies rather than what it is that these technologies themselves can facilitate. Read the rest of this entry »

Els blogs que ofereix blackboard / WebCT o altres LCMS, no sempre són els més adients o amb més possibilitats. En varies ocasions s’ha comentat que si realment vols utilitzar un blog, amb tot el que això comporta, cal utilitzar un gestor específic de blogs (que n’hi ha molts i molt bons), per diversos motius. Read the rest of this entry »