BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Clare Mitchell & Thea van Os Guest or canberratls or sign on Guest or canberratls or sign on Marist College 4 March 2008

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Connected to Learning  The Connected Classroom The Connected Classroom The Connected Classroom

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Producing Artefacts As Resnik says " learning is an active process in which people construct new understandings of the world around them through active exploration, experimentation, discussion and reflection. In short, people don't get ideas; they make them. (Resnik, M. Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age)

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Nature of Collaborative Projects?   Embraces a sense of the social nature of learning, and emphasise a social approach to the development of learning skills, work skills and life skills   assigning responsibility primarily to the students

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Collaborative Learning Fosters  cognitive skills  critical thinking  numeracy, literacy and visual communication skills  skills in interpersonal understanding  life long learning skills

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Features of Good Collaborative Projects   the problem to be solved is an example of the types of problems found in the real world   use of knowledge, skills and attributes that are part of the curriculum   the problem can be solved by a small team of students, none of whom possesses the knowledge or skills to solve the problem alone, yet each of whom is able to contribute to the final product.

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Successful Collaborative Projects   It can provide activities that encourage students to confront the logic of their own thinking, their own beliefs, and the accuracy of their understanding of previous learning. Nagata and Ronkowski 1991 in Adelaide University Leap into Collabotaion

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Features of Collaborative Projects. Students need to be encouraged to  Learn together with others  Develop their own questions and then to seek solutions  Share resources  Share in the task, bring different viewpoints and questions  Cooperate and not compete

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Features of Collaborative Projects. Teachers need to  develop good group development skills  be a resource provider  be an ‘expert’ questioner  design quality collaborative projects  see the learning potential in the ‘chaos’  support collaborative forms of assessment

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Successful Collaborative Projects

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Quality Teaching: Scoping Collaborative Projects  In order to achieve high level of Intellectual Quality, Quality Learning Environments, & Significance What do you want the students to learn? What do you want the students to learn? Why does the learning matter? Why does the learning matter? What are you going to get the students to do or to produce? What are you going to get the students to do or to produce? How well do you expect them to do it? How well do you expect them to do it?

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians QTF – Collaborative Projects & ICT  Addressing the Dimensions Intellectual Quality Intellectual Quality Deep KnowledgeDeep Knowledge Problematic KnowledgeProblematic Knowledge Higher Order ThinkingHigher Order Thinking Substantive CommunicationSubstantive Communication MetalanguageMetalanguage Wiki, Robotics, Visual Representation of Knowledge – Photostory Kahootz, Mind Maps, Blogs, Ethics, Online Research methodology

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians QTF – Collaborative Projects & ICT  Addressing the Dimensions Quality Learning Environments Quality Learning Environments Explicit Quality CriteriaExplicit Quality Criteria EngagementEngagement High ExpectationsHigh Expectations Artefact & Knowledge representation Artefact & Knowledge representation Student Self RegulationStudent Self Regulation Student DirectionStudent Direction Online environments that give students choice of direction, Rubrics on artefact expectations, Gaming and Social Computing

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians QTF – Collaborative Projects & ICT  Addressing the Dimensions Significance Significance Background KnowledgeBackground Knowledge Knowledge IntegrationKnowledge Integration ConnectednessConnectedness Electronic Portfolios, Online Learning Environments (myinternet, moodle, wiki etc), Authentic tasks using Web 2.0

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Digital or e-Portfolios Assessment OF learning Assessment FOR learning Aretfacts mandated Artefacts selected by Student Devt end of class Ongoing Artefacts “Scored” Artefacts reviewed by/ with the learner Extrinsic Motivation Intrinsic Motivation Audience external - limited Audience – choice of learner Adapted from Barrett, 2005 in Transforming Learning with ICT. Finger et al 2007

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Examples of Digital Portfolios   Mathematics guide to portfolio creation  es/seaver/geometryportfolio.htm es/seaver/geometryportfolio.htm es/seaver/geometryportfolio.htm  What is lacking in most examples of Digital Portfolios is the Reflection Phase.

BOSS Moderation Day Teacher - Librarians Rubrics When designing a collaborative learning project, the teacher has the opportunity to assess  students’ social interaction and development,  on-line skills,  creation of electronic resources  or the gain of knowledge and understanding

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