The shrewd instructor must find ways to direct and guide student learning in a
manner that facilitates interaction not just with technology, but with
meaningful and authentic tasks and content (Ford & Lott, 2009)
Communities of Collaboration
Students may discover peers
from around the world through
shared interests
EPA disapproved
Cons
Adaptation to commensalism
Pros
WebQuests
WebQuests use a central question based on a real world issue and ask students
to solve the problem or answer the question (ODonnell et al, 2007).
Example: History question about how those living in the United States during
the Civil War were affected by its various events.
Online Mentoring
Characteristics: Help can be provided for students that may have schedules that
are hard to work with, or students who need extra individual attention.
Students can work at home, and can develop great relationships with their
mentors.
Example: Online Tutoring
Knowledge Forum
Google Docs
Google Docs is a cloud based system used to share documents, sheets, slides, and forms with other
people working on the same project or assignment, and collaborate on different ideas as they see fit for
their respective tasks at hand.
People using Google Docs: High school students, college students, companies
Characteristics: Can collaborate on essays, presentations, and spreadsheets; can chat with other
members of group; do not have to meet in person
Example: Technology and Collaboration Project
Building Connections
Technology and
collaboration tie into
Eriksons framework of
psychosocial development
in the stages of identity
versus role confusion, as
well as intimacy versus
isolation.
Status Characteristics
Status characteristics focus on the manifestations of the classroom- how the student behaves, what their cumulative grade is, their
success at partner assignments, and overall how they are perceived by their peers according to external factors.
Examples: Everyone choosing the same peer and leaving out others.
Low Status Characteristics: The less popular partner to work with; unreliable, inefficient, ignored, useless.
a.
High Status Characteristics: The more popular partner to work with; reliable, organized, efficient.
2.
a.
Status characteristics need to be avoided in the classroom because it Affects interaction, participants rates, and the kind of
cognitive activities in which students engage in. (Alexander, P. & Winne, P., 2006, p. 157)
Mojojo LOW
Power puff HIGH
Teacher Prevention
Works Cited
Works Cited:
Alexander, Patricia A., Winne, Philip H. (2006) Handbook of Educational Psychology. New York, New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis
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ODonnell, A., & Reeve, J. (2007). Educational psychology: Reflection for action (chapter 9-10). Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley.
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