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Social software applications
- What is the impact of social computing on student learning?
- How can teachers use social software tools to participate in professional learning through a 'community of practice'?
- How can teachers share resources, ideas and pedagogies?
- What benefits will socail software bring?
- How do we engage students in multimodal learning though learning technology applications?
- What are the challenges facing teachers in adopting Web 2.0 tools for their own professional learning?
- What are the challenges facing teachers in adopting Web 2.0 tools for their own professional learning?
- The challenges in building on the activities emerging through social software to create learning communities that offer personalised collaborative learning experiences to engage students and to facilitate their students' learning?
- The challenges facing academics and teachers as they use Web2.0 tools to develop a collegial working relationship?
Section title: Social Software Applications
Section facilitator: Chris Reading & Catherine McLoughlin?
What we focused on: the \221social\222 aspect of social computing
Key issues discussed
\225 student learning \226 need soft skills, risk taking, multiple authorship, focus on process not content
\225 teacher professional learning \226 bring unwilling onboard, small steps, distributed learning
\225 academics/teachers link \226 establish individual relationships, need industry links
Contentious issues
\225 how to build social software into the curriculum
\225 how to bring the \223unwilling\224 onboard
\225 how to ensure ownership of spaces for participants
Overall impressions
More work needed on narrowing the gap between student learners, teachers and academics in relation to new technologies and how they are used.
What questions remain?
\225 how can students\222 online social skills be brought into the learning spaces?
\225 how can teachers develop online social skills?
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