Ulearn Breakout #6 – Tony Ryan
Posted on October 4, 2007
Filed under Ulearn07
Web 2.0 Intelligence: How are strong relationships between family, whanau, communities and places of learning fostered?
Collaboration vs group work – Collaboration is coming through in the web 2.0 environment.
Clock face partners – 12, 3, 6 and 9′0clock – find partner for work during the session.
Making Connections
web 1.0 – one way – search engines, internet banking
web 2.0 – two way – second life, facebook (challenge to create a 2nd life avatar)
2nd life – Two countrues already have established an embassy
No one is overweight
no one has wrinkles
several unis have set up a campus on a 2nd life island – could schools do the same??
If you join IBm you must be in 2nd life as they do all their training.
OHMYNEWS.com go2web20.net
The Wisdom of 2.0 crowds – more than 1 is smarter than 1. group mind crucial. GEN Y life ethic involves learning with and from other people – no discrimination based on avatars – wouldn’t it be great if our world would be like this.
Deeper applications of technology
web 3.0 – Avatar synchronisation and Ubiquitous computing within the next 5 years
web 4.0 – around 2025 – download of entity; marrying robots – ethics???;
Neo-ludities – infecting tech companies when they are fired.
180 degree dialogues – into 2’s; one choose yes and one no; statement; defend your side. now change sides – Talking is Critical
Living in First Life
Two sets of meta skills – Goleman, Daniel – “Social Intelligence”
Personal – bounce back; need to feel good about self to collaborate; less resilient people focus on probs whereas more resilient people focus on solutions and able to cope with distressing situations better. Determined by your thinking – wake kids up to their own thinking “dumping crappy thoughts”.
Stress conditions -
Eustress – motivating stress – planning a party etc (Good Stress – for kids)
distress – situations out your control – indicators:loss of control, disturbed sleep, eating patterns, apathy, emotionally volatility
Hyperstress – burnout – overloaded with distress situations
Hypostress – unchallenged insufficient amounts of positive stress
Stress Busters -put them in place daily – exercise, meditation, listening to music, reading the newspaper, playing a game.
What do I do to destress – for rest of the year swim mon, wed, thurs and walk two days a week.
Social - Emotional intelligence
Mentoring across year levels – new kids buddied up with older kids; year 6s helping year 1s
Solution based projects within the curriculum – IBL, focus on solutions not the problems – personal, social and global lives.
Active citizenship opportunities – help kids help each other. Social Justice – helps centre kids in later life. Power of 100 – write letters because at least 100 people are thinking the same things. 6 degrees of separation rule, if we each know 37 people we are connected to everyone on the planet by less than 6 degrees.
Use collabortaive learning strategies
Generate supportive classroom – respect – respect- respect-
Help students to know more about each other
Fun activities – social venn diagrams, This is my life (one piece of paper, 4 things the’ve done in their lives, swap papers then people have to read it out and guess who it is), 2 truths and 1 outrageous lie;
Having a laugh as a group draws them together – humour not sarcasm – group collective
First 90 seconds of a lesson are critical – kids make up their mind about the lesson in this time
Teach the social skills -
1.Draw up a t-chart (looks like/soundslike) and writie the name of the skill at the top eg Top Listening
2.Role model the skill to the group
3.Clarify the specifics of the skill with the T-chart
4. Practise it immediately
Further WEb Options
tonyryan@headfirst.com.au (need to send a joke if I want anything)
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