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Communication and collaboration tools - Coggle Diagram
Communication and collaboration tools
The concept of community
Communities of Practice
Form workgroups, assign roles, teach and support each other, and develop identities defined by the roles
"Learning, thinking, and knowing are relations among people engaged in activity" (p.67)
Learning "as a social phenomenon constituted in the experienced, lived-in world, through legitimate peripheral participation in ongoing social practice"
(Lave, 1991, p. 64)
Knowledge-Building Communities
Goal- intentional learning
-support students to "actively and strategically pursue learning as a goal"
Students
own the knowledge
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committed to building knowledge, rather than merely receiving and reprocessing it
Technology - A medium for storing, organizing, and reformulating ideas contributed by each community member
Discourse Communitites
Communities with common interests
same species
Learning Communities
Learning communities emerge when
students share common interests and work together toward their common goals
This can be fostered by having participants -
conduct research, and share information, in the pursuit of a meaningful, consequential task.
Support reflection on the knowledge constructed and the process used to construct it by the learners
Supportive Technologies
The Internet - WWW
Network Technologies
"
World out there
" through communications and multimedia technologies
Strength
- decentralized nature
Distributed network
- Linking users and institutions, allowing all kinds of interactions to occur
Expands the potential adoption scale of learning communities
On-line Communication
Asynchronous
communication
Verbal Intelligence
-Capability to know what to say
Does not necessarily mean the best thinkers or communicators
Other people require time to consider an idea and formulate a response
Verbally deft, capable of carrying out stimulating conversation
Advantages
Reflect on ideas/ responses before making them
Different kinds of thinking can be scaffolded
Support discussions, debates, and collaborative efforts among groups of people
Synchronous
communication
Instant, real-time exchange of ideas
Etc; Instant messaging tools, Video conferencing tools
Different levels of computer networking technologies (Paulson, 1996)
One-to-One
Individual can communicate to other individuals
-Email
-Chatting tech
One-to-Many
Individuals broadcast information to entire groups;
Information can also be published at websites to allow other access
-Web pages
-Distribution lists
One-alone
Individual can access information resources on WWW, can also be used by groups
-Online databases
-Journals
Many-to-Many
Groups of people can engage in open communication
through various discussion and activity forums, both real time & asnchronously
-MUD/MOO system
-Listservs, chat and conferencing technologies