Designing for learning: Online social networks as a classroom environment

This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students’ interactions when using online social media as a learning environment. It makes links to chaos and complexity theories and to fractal patterns as it reports on a part of the first a...

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Autores principales:	Gail Casey, Terry Evans
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2011
Materias:	distance education open learning e-learning online learning pedagogy Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:971c4156df10461c9c0bfee9e209d8ad2021-12-02T17:16:07ZDesigning for learning: Online social networks as a classroom environment10.19173/irrodl.v12i7.10111492-3831https://doaj.org/article/971c4156df10461c9c0bfee9e209d8ad2011-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1011https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students’ interactions when using online social media as a learning environment. It makes links to chaos and complexity theories and to fractal patterns as it reports on a part of the first author’s action research study, conducted while she was a teacher working in an Australian public high school and completing her PhD. The study investigates the use of a Ning online social network as a learning environment shared by seven classes, and it examines students’ reactions and online activity while using a range of social media and Web 2.0 tools. The authors use Graham Nuthall’s (2007) “lens on learning” to explore the social processes and culture of this shared online classroom. The paper uses his extensive body of research and analyses of classroom learning processes to conceptualize and analyze data throughout the action research cycle. It discusses the pedagogical implications that arise from the use of social media and, in so doing, challenges traditional models of teaching and learning. Gail CaseyTerry EvansAthabasca University Pressarticledistance educationopen learninge-learningonline learningpedagogySpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 12, Iss 7 (2011)
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description	This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students’ interactions when using online social media as a learning environment. It makes links to chaos and complexity theories and to fractal patterns as it reports on a part of the first author’s action research study, conducted while she was a teacher working in an Australian public high school and completing her PhD. The study investigates the use of a Ning online social network as a learning environment shared by seven classes, and it examines students’ reactions and online activity while using a range of social media and Web 2.0 tools. The authors use Graham Nuthall’s (2007) “lens on learning” to explore the social processes and culture of this shared online classroom. The paper uses his extensive body of research and analyses of classroom learning processes to conceptualize and analyze data throughout the action research cycle. It discusses the pedagogical implications that arise from the use of social media and, in so doing, challenges traditional models of teaching and learning.
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Designing for learning: Online social networks as a classroom environment

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