I am in Chapel Hill, working with educators from the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools, and I am telling them my Podcastercon story. In summary, I presented a session at January’s Podcastercon about podcasting and education. As soon as the 90 minute session was over, I checked my aggregator and there were already three blog entries written about the session, obviously moblogged. One of the blogs included a photograph that I took during the session. First thing the next morning I am translating blog entries about the session that are written in Dutch.
So what’s happened with information in this story? [contributions from workshop attendees]
- information was shared globally almost immediately
- the session lasted longer than the scheduled time, through blogoshpere
- Information was not interpreted and shared by one person, but by many, some of whom, didn’t even attend the session
- Because the learning is a conversation, it becomes what individuals need. It’s active.
- There’s no stopping place, constantly refreshing itself.
- The bias and perspective of the communicator is not always obvious.
- Learner becomes teacher and teacher becomes learner — conversation.
- New ideas/knowledge is constructed through the conversation.
Comments are from workshop attendees, exploring how the changing shape of information that was indicated in the story impacts on what and how we teach — and how we learn.
The structure and focus of the classroom need to radically change. Currently, the focus is on students acquiring information. However, we need to be leading students in the direction of creating, evaluating, and using information.
The fact that there are no boundaries out there, it falls upon us to educate our students about how to distinguish “good” from “bad” information.
For some years we have talked about building “communities of learners” – the blogosphere may actually take us a long way towards that…
It is great to learn new things from you. I use message board and guest book. I will add web block. Thanks a lot
I think that blogging can become a great tool for students to share their ideas with others who could have different perspectives.
This is very exciting for education. I think this medium will facilitate the transfer of information and conversation from a top down approach (teacher to student) to a more lateral conversation where all ( teacher and students) can be heard.
Blogging seems like a great tool to use in the classroom however, it becomes problematic with lack of typing skills in the elementary school. Should word processing become part of the preschool curriculum?
When addressing issues of equitable access to blogging and the internet, I think we, teachers, have quite a bit of control. As educators in a very wired and tech-savvy school district, you just have to get creative about how you provide access to your students. For example, in my third grade classroom, I integrated blogs into my literacy centers. The students were required to blog in class. (By the way, I have 5 computers in my class room that has internet acces. In addition, I can check out mac laptops from our media center.) If my students had internet access at home, they could blog outside of school for extra credit!
Check out my third graders’ weblogs.
http://www.chccs.k12.nc.us/scroggs
Go to grade 3 and click on Shirley Pyon. Then to Student Forum or Math Forum.
As as educator who continues to struggle with the devestating impact of post-modernism, I worry that elevating all opinions of students, especially the opinions of students whose view of the world is dictated by the interpretations imposed on them by their parents, to the plane of truth offers an untrue sense of what the world is really like.
One idea that we didn’t discuss is that the impact can be exponential — people in Holland replying in Dutch to a conference the previous day in Chapel Hill??!!
Another thought is that this is the way teenagers learn today, they are always on and want immediate answers to their questions.
students have access to multiple perspectives but will have to be on the look out for biases.
Blogs are great, but it can be dauting to think that a minor error can throw people off on a track of criticism. For instance I was distracted by the extraneous comma, and by this entry asking me for my URI…instead of my URL….
So the medium can overwhelm the message…
Students need to constantly be exposed to current technology. Blogging enables students to be active learners.
Educators endeavor to create classroom experiences challenging students to think critically and view information globally. This technology provides an avenue for teachers to enter this learning process along with their students. Blogging is a method for raising the level of classroom learning to the processes we find at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Because of the changing nature of information delivery, I think it’s more important than ever that students be able to determine the authority and accuracy of the information they receive.
this would be of value in the classroom because it requires an individual to be constantly functioning at the highest levels of thinking by constantly requiring evaluation of information
the process also removes the judgements human beings make about others based on who they are, where they come from and what they look like
The social construction of information is occuring at a faster pace. I think there needs to be a greater shift for students towards analyzing and manipulating information.
Interestingly enough the “curiosity of understanding the dynamic” of the blog as an instructional tool is within the complexity of determing how to access it as tool for two-way communication that bridges the gap between teacher output and sharing and student learning and the input AND output of information in a way that shared ideas become the standard instead of the exception. The desire is to make it a useful tool and the need is to determine the most helpful manner that blogging can be used within our educational environment to counter the media communication that our students are learning in a meaningful way. How do we “bridge the gap” without creating a further gap for technology resources for teachers and students? Where do all constituents play into this process? How do we address the “isolation” and maximize the tool as another way to reach the masses? We look forward to learning the “how” to use the “what” (blogging) and to explain the “why” of need to those who will be expected to utilize it. How exciting to us all!!
I think that the information changing can be a scary thought but in the same note can be a great thing for the classroom. I feel that this can eliminate the children being dependent on the teacher to answer all of the questions. I on the flip side worry that misinformation can be spread through to easily through these modern conveniences.
The ocean of information that our students are swimming in creates a need for teachers to provide life rafts of information evaluation at an earlier age. We are required to “teach to the test” when what the students need is for us to teach them how to access and process information from a globally connected society.
The new shape of information has changed and requires us as educators to change our instructional practices to include this concept. For some educators this seems like a welcome challenge. For other educators however, this is met with hesitation. While the pioneers in educational technology search for ways to create and implement digital informational best practices, how can we help others to understand this new way of thinking and learning?? How can we as educators ensure that we provide safe access for students and include all students in this exciting learning? We owe it to our students to give them the digital tools to be successful, productive citizens. The story we heard basically summarizes what most of the students in our district expect to be available and accessible in their daily lives.
Learner becomes teacher and
the teacher becomes learner
— conversation
Everyone is a learner.
But in our schools we make some learners teachers.
Sometimes they talk and talk.
Sometimes they show and show.
Sometimes they pass out papers.
Sometimes they test the other learners.
Sometimes they inspire the other learners to learn.
Sometimes they inspire the other learners to dream great things.
Sometimes they uninspired the other learner, even bore them.
Sometimes they forget about joy of learning.
Often they loaded down with paperwork that teaching is a second job.
Sometimes there is no conversation for an hour maybe even all day long.
Is blogging a way to start the conversations once again-QUIETLY ?
Could the teacher become a learner again?
Could the students become teachers?
Could our classrooms change so much that a school would not be a building but a community?
A school connected by conversation not walls.
A school in the world, not shut-up in crowded rooms.
A community built with learners of different ages working together on a project of intense interest to them.
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