Welcome Students Near & Far Catalina Laserna, DPhil Wednesday, February 11, 2009 to EDUC E-104 Theory and Practice of Web Pedagogies Week 3: Learning Communities

AGENDA Learning Communities - articles you found Intro to the article by Kate Bielaczyc and Allan Collins Group work Break Discussion

Learning Communities What did you find? Small group work Distance students- write brief summary to add to feedback form

Report back to group Title and summary of article Why relevant?

Learning Communities in the Classroom A reconceptulatization of educational Practice By Kate Bielaczyc and Allan Collins

Why Learning Communities? Social-constructivist argument Learning to learn argument Multi-cultural argument

A framework Goals of the community Learning activities Teacher and power relations Resources Discourse Knowledge Product

Knowledge Forum

Different Genres of Knowledge building games Different Epistemic games

Inquiry Cycle - cont –INTU –A better theory –……. –Putting out knowledge together

Start with WITIK What-I-think-I- understand –WITIK… What I think I know –INTU …..I need to understand –My Theory –New Information

Establishing a learning Community

Note in inquiry cycle

Example of a “View”

Notes on a view

Developing own inquiry

NOTES with Scaffolds

One of the Last Views the group built

Group Work Three groups meet and describe the features for each case. Report back and compare and contrast how their case contrasts with other cases using the following table:

Analysis of Learning-Community Classrooms Knowledge- Building Fostering a Community of Learners Inquiry Math Classroom Goals of the community Learning activities Teacher roles and power relationships Centrality/peripher ality and identity Resources Discourse Knowledge Products

Group reports

Principles for the Design of Effective Learning Communities 1. Community Growth 2.Emergent Goals Articulation of Goals 3.Metacognitive (monitoring, awareness of known and not known, reflection) 4.Beyond the Bounds 5.Respect for others 6.Failure Safe

Principles for the Design of Effective Learning Communities 7. Structural Dependence 8. Depth over Breath 9. Diverse Expertise 10. Multiple Ways to Participate 11. Sharing Principle 12. Negotiation Principle 13. Quality of Product Principle

Reflection In what ways are you expecting to develop a learning community in your project? What challenges and opportunities do you foresee? Write a memo for your self - to be shred later in the CCDT

Lab tonight: The Yard

Next week: Unit 2 AFFORDANCES Starting with Gibson's seminal article, in this unit we introduce the concept of affordances Readings We can also discuss Cook and Brown on “dynamic affordances” p.389