Designing for Learning: Online Social Networks as a Classroom Environment

Autor/inn/en	Casey, Gail; Evans, Terry
Titel	Designing for Learning: Online Social Networks as a Classroom Environment
Quelle	In: International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 12 (2011) 7, S.1-26 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1492-3831
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Action Research; Learning Processes; Classroom Environment; Social Networks; High School Students; Interaction; Learning Theories; Student Reaction; Instructional Innovation; Student Role; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Group Activities; Student Projects; Computer Mediated Communication; Web Based Instruction; Web Sites; Instructional Design; Web 2.0 Technologies; Video Technology; Electronic Publishing; Class Activities; Educational Strategies; Classroom Techniques; Instructional Effectiveness; Virtual Classrooms; Laptop Computers; Discourse Analysis; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Projektforschung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Interaktion; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Schülerkritik; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Gruppenaktivität; Schulprojekt; Computerkonferenz; Web Based Training; Web-Design; Lesson concept; Lessonplan; Unterrichtsentwurf; Elektronisches Publizieren; Lehrstrategie; Klassenführung; Unterrichtserfolg; Laptop computer; Laptop; Computer; Digitalrechner; Diskursanalyse; Australien
Abstract	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. (Contains 10 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10