think about it! encouraging reflection through new media
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presentation given at the 2009 Online EDUCA conference in BerlinTRANSCRIPT
Think about it!Encouraging reflection
through new media
Jan MarkovićAgnieszka Chrząszcz
Centre of e-Learning, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Reflection
Careful thinking
Active
Conscious
Voluntary
Purposeful
Complex
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Why reflect?
Deeper understanding
Personalization
Ownership
Development of metacognitive skills
Building a PDP
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Obstacles?
Surface learning (learning as absorption and reproduction of facts)
Assessment based on surface learning
Curriculum and certificate driven learning
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Why new media?
Common
Personal
Open
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Who are we?
Centre of e-Learning, AGH University Promote e-learning Research Develop and tutor online courses, adressed at
adult learners, mostly educators
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Our goals?
Relate teaching to professional practice
Personalize learning process
Put our courses in context of life-long learning
Encourage creativity
Engage learners in meaningful conversations
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
How we promote reflection?
Give explicit instructions
Give good practice examples
Ask for reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action
Don’t let learners settle down on conclusions too easily...
...but help them settle down eventually
Give a choice of tools with various affordances
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Tools - blogs
Reflection-in-action
Reflection on intermediate learning steps
Continuous commenting
Full ownership by learner
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Tools – forums, wikis, collaboration software
Meaningful communication and exchane of ideas
Reciprocal relation between reflection and external feedback
Tutor modeartion and feedback: stimulation and summarizing
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Tools for summarizing
Reflection-on-action
Getting the „big picture”
Mind-maps – for continuous building of the cognitive map of the subject area
Final written assignments – for summing up the work and building a narration
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Tools - e-portfolios
Putting course learning in a broader context
Reflection on personal development
Building block for a life-long learning
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Reflection on tools
Continuous reflection by learners and (us) tutors on new media, their: Role in education Affordances Limitations
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Summary
Reflection beneficial for a learner
Reflection beneficial but needs to be stimulated and guided
LEs that include new media more open and personalized, thus beneficial for reflective learner
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009
Jan Marković
Centre of e-Learning, AGH - University of Science and Technology
www.cel.agh.edu.pl
Centre of e-Learning AGH
Online EDUCA Berlin 2009