community builiding final
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Chapter presentation for EME4406.TRANSCRIPT
Community Building with Technology
Karine, Rebecca and Holly
Learning Communities
• In general, what makes a community?
• What makes a learning community?1. Membership and responsibility
2. Respectful and affirming feedback
3. Common purpose
What makes a community succeed?
Dynamic Learning Community
Dialectical Process
• Thesis, Antithesis, synthesis– Drinking Age
– Knowledge Forum
Knowledge Building Theory (KB)
• Created by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia in 2003
• Sharing, group discussions and synthesis of ideas to create collective knowledge
• Teacher=guideIdea=medium
Technology=platform
Students= learners and teachers
Knowledge Building Communities
Learning Communities
+Knowledge Building Theory
=Knowledge Building Communities
Knowledge Building Communities
Rise above
Improvable Ideas
Diversity of ideas
Epistemic agency
Pervasive knowledge
Collective Knowledge
Democratizing knowledge
Authentic problems and ideas
Knowledge Building Discourse
Symmetric knowledge advancement
Constructive Use of Authoritative Sources
Concurrent, embedded and transformative Assessment(
E-pals
• www.epals.com
• “My contact in Israel has not only become a very valuable educational resource, but the teacher there and her students have become dear, dear friends. Through this website, children around the world are getting to personally know and appreciate each other. Differences in faith, culture and traditions are being appreciated, not feared.”
Debbie B.
St. Peter Celestine Catholic School in Cherry Hill, USA
• Cross cultural• Class-to-class projects• Safe and free• No software
Classroom Resources
Blogs and Wikis International CommunitiesBroaden Perspective- Expand Thinking- Complex
Mental Models
International Communities
Learning Circles online projects-outcome is document or collection
iEARN Learning Circles http://www.iearn.org/circles/
My Hero Bakrajo Agricultural High School
school #4 Novosibirsk
Mr. Kramer’s Class
International Communities cont’d
Global Schoolhouse collaborative projects sharing information with schools from other parts of the world
Letters to SantaEpals.com safely connect,
collaborate, and learn using
leading email and blog
solutions for schools and
districts
Dhruv
Kriti
Megan
Teacher Communities
• Engage in professional development
• Informal, collaborative activities with colleagues
Teachade.com
Why?
“Learning does not happen when students are unable to express their ideas, emotions, confusions, ignorance and prejudices…Only when the teacher,
the students and the subject can be woven together into the fabric of a community will it have the chance to happen” Parker Palmer (The
Courage to Teach)
• Increased Commitment in school
• Less behavior issues
• Increased positive school climate
• Improved attendance
• Increased mastery of subject material (Hawkins, 1999; Malecki and Elliot, 2002)
“No significant learning occurs without a significant relationships”
Dr. James Comer (Leave No Child Behind)