When Face-to-Face Fails
Opportunities for Social Media to
Foster Collaborative Learning
Tamara Clegg, Jason Yip, June Ahn, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Michael Gubbels, Becky Lewittes, & Emily Rhodes
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Help learners see the personally relevant aspects of science
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Develop SCIENTIFIC
DISPOSITIONS
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS around Science
Productive Collaborations in Science
Sharing insights and ideas
Providing critiques
Observing strategies
Barron, 2003; Puntambekar, 2006
Challenges
stigmatizing low achievers
dysfunctional interactions
Blumenfeld, Marx, Soloway & Krajcik, 1996
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning has
focused on the cognitive aspects of learners’ collaboration
If we do not address the social aspects of collaboration, many learners will not experience the cognitive benefits.
Blended Learning
How can technology support face-to-face interaction?
Social Media for Supporting Learner
Collaboration
Ahn, Gubbels, Kim & Wu, 2012
Individuals make Micro-contributions to the inquiry process
Voting to Negotiate norms of quality
Is this a novel question?
Do you wonder about this?
Is this hypothesis evidence-based?
Aggregate Collaborative projects
How can SINQ promote productive collaborations in science?
Kitchen Chemistry
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After-school or summer camp learning environment
e.g., Clegg et al., 2006
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ContextTwelve week after-school program at a local private Montessori school
6 participants SINQ, StoryKit, & Zydeco
Facilitators: Kitchen Chemistry researchers
Older version of SINQ
Comparative Case StudyYin, 2003
Distractions and contributions to collaboration
Interactions with SINQ
Whole Group Conversation Woes
Learner arguments
Competing Foci Learners easily derailed
Talking out of turn
Unproductive experiences
Clegg et al., Submitted
Interactions
How do I make green brownies?
Freddie & Eric
More focused
Shifting social landscape
How does cinnamon relate to cinnamon rolls?
Idea seeds
Do you wonder about this?
How do they make cinnamon sticks?
Facilitated conversation with facilitators
Arman
Donna Jason Anthony
Physical Proximity
PUFFLES! Hard Sugar
Why are most candies hard?
How do you make a hard sugar?
Authorship & Physical Separation
Focus Using SINQ
Enhanced collaboration w/ facilitators
Shifts in social dynamic
Collaboration across groups
Clegg et al., Submitted
Implications
Facilitating scientific communication
A community repository of contributions
Multiple entry points into science
TAKE AWAYFactoring the
context into the design of technology
Questions@tlclegg@jasoncyip@ahnjune@ebonsign@mokogobo