1. Building Collaborative Learning Environments Jon Orech Instructional Technology Coordinator Downers Grove South High School jorech@csd99.org Jim Gerry Innovation and Entrepreneurship Director Illinois Math & Science Academy jgerry@imsa.edu Students from IMSA

3. The Paperless Classroom

4. What have you heard here at Tech Forum that will transform student learning?

5. How do you make your classroom a “collaborative learning space”?

6. What about here?

7. Or here?

8. Or even here. Wiki Solution Manual

9. Are you over the Web 2.0 Frenzy…

10. and ready to focus (again) on learning? Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (Siemens and Titterberger, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/handbookemerging

11. “Collaboration” is NOT the goal.

13. BLOGS Discussion boardsWikis Where do I want to go?

14. Why Discussion Boards? ”Anytime, Anywhere” learning Increased process time Permanence Empowers “quiet” students Deeper meaning, richer discussions

15. Duration Frequency Audience Assessment Instructor involvement

16. A “quality” post looks like…”

19. Discussion boards must lead to A purpose.

22. Wikis in the Classroom:Theory…

23. Wikis in the Classroom:Reality…

24. “Wiki” is a tool “Collaborative writing” is a process.

29. Role

30. Environmentx

31. Resource

32. Task

34. Frequent Assessment

35. Random questioning

39. Negotiate revision

51. Research “Asynchronous writing results in richer communication” (Mabrito, 2006). “Online collaborative writing produces higher quality writing than face-to-face collaboration” (Passig and Schwartz, 2007). Why?

52. Successful teaching today requires: Experimentation. Co-creation of content. Relinquishing control. Tolerance [encouragement] of failure. Siemens and Titterberger