virtual learning environmentsuni bridges workshop 12.12.2011

the community is waking-up

web as participatory platform – web of people:‘us-ness’ | community | connect | network | share

Learning institutions rethinking the possibilities around what can be learnt, where learning can happen and who is involved in the learning process.

Beyond the institutionalised logic of the school towards the network logic of the learning community.

pedagogy | learning networks

THE UNI BRIDGE NETWORK

•Students connect/share with each other and La Trobe Uni.

•Students interact with a range of content in a decentralised way.

•Access La Trobe Uni learning content.•Opportunities for informal

conversations, connections & learning.

ecology of virtual spaces

•School based curriculum.

•School specific content.•Digital portfolios.

•Students use a range of Web 2.0 applications.•Teacher sharing an collaboration.

Students connect/share with each other and La Trobe Uni.Students interact with a range of content in a decentralised way. Access La Trobe Uni learning content.Opportunities for informal conversations, connections & learning.

explore web 2.0 applications

http://www.diigo.com/user/digimuve

the flipped classroom

life in an inquiry driven, technology-embedded, connected classroom: science

• Teacher lectures less – students explore more. • Students spend time piecing together what they have learned, critically evaluating its

larger purpose, and reflecting on their own learning.• Students don’t acquire knowledge just for the sake of acquiring it. They need to do

something with it — “project-based” learning.• Technology is embedded into the fundamental structure of the learning: how research is

done, how information is captured, and how learning is displayed.  It’s never an accessory tacked on at the end.

What does it look like? Learn more – read the full blog post:http://plpnetwork.com/2011/11/04/life-in-a-technology-embedded-classroom-science-2/

project based learning example

The SARS ProjectEach year, student teams from all over the world compete in a well-known competition called ThinkQuest (http://www.thinkquest.org/competition). The challenge is to create an innovative educational website for use by other students on a topic the team really cares about.

In 2003, six high school students from Malaysia, Singapore, the Netherlands, Cairo and Philadelphia, collaborated online to create a site on a topic of great concern at the time – the deadly outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.

project based learning example

The SARS Project cont ....The global team of students had to do all the work involved in producing an engaging educational website:• researching the topic;• presenting well thought-out content• interviewing experts;• writing the text;• designing and creating the look and feel of the site;• programing the site’s interface, navigation; and• creating interactive games and quizzes.

The team’s challenge was to:1. Work in a team to solve an urgent problem: getting other students to overcome

their fears by learning more about the disease and about ways to protect themselves from the viral outbreak.

2. Present the work in a way that appealed to other students, engaging their interest through images, animations, video, and interactive games, as well as through clear and concise writing.

project based learning example

The SARS Project cont ....The six student team members, working from four different time zones used over a dozen different software and web tools to create and share their work online. The first time they actually met was at the ThinkQuest Live award event in San Francisco.

The SARS project website: http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00738/Project Based Learning Website: http://pbl-online.org/default.htm