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Teacher/Librarian Role: acts as coach/peer-learner to facilitate learning
Learner: member of an emerging, evolving community (potential
for all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy)
Software flattens distinctions between teacher and learner,
maximizes peer-to-peer interaction and group synergy
Assessment can be dynamic, flexible and complex
Real-world assessment includes ongoing and interactive feedback and
critiques, valuing (blogroll, trackback), changing a working product,
developing an idea.
Retrospective evaluation of archived discussions, processes and products.
| Example | Purpose | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher Chatboards | Topical group discussion and archive for peer support among educators. | topic chats
option for e-mail |
| Collaborative concept map creation | Share, link, edit and criticize concept maps synchronously across sites. | IHMC Cmap Tools |
| Matches an expert to a learner for peer-to-peer personalized learning or networking. | ProfilerPro (knowledge) Friendster (social), Linkedin (corporate) uses surveys and database. | |
| Political,
social and creative networks manage knowledge and
interconnectedness with less
administration and blog-to-blog "voting" on important
entries.
Simple-to-use technology, socially complex ecosystem. Digital repository of artifacts (private or shared within communities), weblog links to repository artifacts facilitating reflection. The social networking protocol allows users to join and create various learning communities. |
social
analysis tools e.g.InFlow
Elgg - weblogging, e-portfolio, social networking |
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| STKE | Supports (mainly asynchronous) scholarship of novices and experts in a common interest knowledge network. |
Web pages and database, real-time data, images, resources and links, alerts and folders (STKE), access to experts and research, real data, primary sources, career information (STKE), personal field experience reports and data. |
| Collective action (smart mobs) or information dissemination (moblog) | Wireless networks, mobile communication and pervasive computing facilitate peer-to-peer-to-group networking | |
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Supports asynchronous and real-time collaborative group
work in a Virtual Learning
Environment.
Integrated software called Blackspace has a flexible interface for collaborative writing, drawing, compiling multimedia presentations |
eGroupWare
includes
individual and group calendars, file sharing, address books, forums,
reviews, and voting NBOR (No Boundaries or Rules) |
| Amazon | Interactive, decentralized opinion and knowledge management based on personal interests and taste. | Flexible
blog-like
software, applications and database
Readers review and rate books, responses by authors and others, member pages, wish lists, purchase groups and discussion boards create online communities around purchases. |
Effective teaching with technology matches the teacher's goals and the learner's characteristics and needs, with tools that enhance understanding.