Section outline

  • Faciliator: Eduard Podgaiskii (RSHU)
    Date: 19-28 November

    This session will explore social networking for building communities of learners.

    • Education 2.0 discussion forum

      This forum will be used for discussions related to Education 2.0.

    • Introduction

    • Do you know what I am going to say? File

      Introductory conversation (iSpring). Some initial comments & thoughts to start with.

    • What is Web 2.0? Page

      Web 2.0 in just 5 minutes - from Michael Wesch, professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, USA. Dr Wesch made this video alone from his house in St. George, Kansas. He used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations. More than 1,5 mln people viewed the video on YouTube.

    • New Learners, New Skills

      Let's make a step further and consider two reflections on what a modern student is and should be. One is the teacher's perspective, "7 Skills Students Need for their Future" by Dr Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group (video and PPT of the talk are attached below), and another one is the group work of Digital Ethnography class at Kansas State University we've already familiar with, called "A Vision of Students Today". Dr Michael Wesch provides good summary in his "Rethinking Education" video, which you may want to follow if your time is really limited for the first two pieces (trying to introduce different levels of participation, as Maja suggested).

      Please use the forum to reflect on settings that would foster training the 7 skills and would better accommodate modern learners.

    • "7 Skills students need for their future" URL

      Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group, reflects on "the Net generation" and the new skills needed

    • 7 Skills students need for their future File

      The PPT of Dr Wagner's talk

    • A Vision of Students Today URL

      Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

    • Rethinking Education URL

      This talk by Dr Michael Wesch can serve as a summary to the chapter.

    • Classroom 2.0 for Education 2.0?

      This week the new CalMET session is going to start on Open Educational Resources (OERs). There are many of them online these days, and I'm looking forward to learn some new ones from Lucianne Veeck, Maja Kuna and Pat Parrish. But I believe even the world-best OERs alone can rarely be used for education. How many of you managed to learn a new languague or music playing technique using self-learning guides? 

      The most successful OER initiatives these days have tools and means to generate and sustain virtual classes of learning communities around them. A recent example of such initiative is covered in the video attached. How can we use this experience in online meteorological education?

    • Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education URL

      Daphne Koller is co-founder of Coursera, educational technology company. Launched in April, 2012, Coursera partners with various universities and makes a few of their courses available online free for a large audience. As of November 2012 more than 1,900,241 students from 196 countries have enrolled in at least one course.