Are Your Students REALLY Collaborating?

Jon OrechInstructional Technology CoordinatorCooperative Learning TrainerSouth High School,Downers Grove, ILjorech@csd99.org

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What have you read recently that has impacted your

teaching?

What is the difference between Cooperation and

Collaboration?

How do you make your classroom a

“collaborative learning space”?

What about here?

Or here?

Or even here.

Web 2.0

Are you over the

Hoopla…

and ready to focus (again)

on learning?Handbook of Emerging Technologies for

Learning

(Siemens and Titterberger, 2009)

http://tinyurl.com/handbookemerging

BLOGS NING SOCIAL BOOKMARKING WIKIS

Wikis in the Classroom:Theory…

Wikis in the Classroom:Reality…

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

Cooperative Learning (Johnson and Johnson)

Positive Interdependence Individual Accountability Group Processing Social Skills Face to Face Interaction

Positive Interdependence

• Goal

• Role

• Environment

• Resource

• Task

• Identity

IndividualAccountability

• Small Groups

• Frequent Assessment

• History

• Random questioning

Face to Face Interaction

• Preparation

• Revision

Group Processing

• Peer reflection

• Teacher interaction

Social Skills

• Netiquette

• Negotiate revision

• Recognizing strengths

The final product…

MUST be valuable to others.

Lord of the Flies wiki

The “Alice” projectChristian Long

Isabelle Menke

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?

Successful teaching today requires:

Experimentation.

Co-creation of content.

Relinquishing control.

Tolerance [encouragement] of failure.

Siemens and Titterberger