An "off-the-record" study group for idea development
John,
You've done a wonderful job in outlining a proposal and crafting ideas about issues to be considered and a daily breakdown for how we might begin to consider them!
I do like your suggestion of an "off-the-record" study group since we are in the beginning stages of "idea development" and it may become too difficult, as you say, "to manage a genuinely open invitation" until we further clarify some of the issues.
That being said, I'll join in as participant whether it's formal, informal, or even if we hang out on a sidewalk somewhere with a Margarita in hand! ;-) (hmmm...maybe not a bad idea!)
About the topics, I'd like to suggest that somewhere in there we address how our developing theories and research methods can inform the practical development of some type of web-based learning scaffold. I keep going back to that idea we were envisioning at your session of some electronic environment that guides readers/learners in identifying their purpose, background knowledge, text structure, strategy selection, etc and then provides them with open-ended tools/supports/features that enable each learner to customize them according to his/her needs. Just a toolbar or two and a frame with certain levels of features that incorporates each of our perspectives could be so powerful, I think, in seeing how technology can be used to inform, support, track and modify strategies readers use as they interact with and respond to Internet text. (and these same tools/features can simultaneously be used to track, analyze and report data collected within these environments). The teacher in me continues to harbor just below the surface of the researcher in me :-)
Thanks for pulling this together so quickly. What do others think?
:-) Julie
You've done a wonderful job in outlining a proposal and crafting ideas about issues to be considered and a daily breakdown for how we might begin to consider them!
I do like your suggestion of an "off-the-record" study group since we are in the beginning stages of "idea development" and it may become too difficult, as you say, "to manage a genuinely open invitation" until we further clarify some of the issues.
That being said, I'll join in as participant whether it's formal, informal, or even if we hang out on a sidewalk somewhere with a Margarita in hand! ;-) (hmmm...maybe not a bad idea!)
About the topics, I'd like to suggest that somewhere in there we address how our developing theories and research methods can inform the practical development of some type of web-based learning scaffold. I keep going back to that idea we were envisioning at your session of some electronic environment that guides readers/learners in identifying their purpose, background knowledge, text structure, strategy selection, etc and then provides them with open-ended tools/supports/features that enable each learner to customize them according to his/her needs. Just a toolbar or two and a frame with certain levels of features that incorporates each of our perspectives could be so powerful, I think, in seeing how technology can be used to inform, support, track and modify strategies readers use as they interact with and respond to Internet text. (and these same tools/features can simultaneously be used to track, analyze and report data collected within these environments). The teacher in me continues to harbor just below the surface of the researcher in me :-)
Thanks for pulling this together so quickly. What do others think?
:-) Julie
posted by Laurie | 9:43 AM
1 Comments:
Hello Everyone,
I echo Julie's thanks to John for putting this proposal together. I'm
also happy to participate in either an informal or formal group. And, I
also really like Julie's idea that we come with ideas and examples of
what a supported web-based learning toolkit/environment might look like.
Some might want to create storyboard or powerpoint mock-ups, others
might want to provide a description, etc. I know Maya and I have
examples of scaffolded searching/learning tools we have been working
with, and others may as well. I would like to see the benefit of our
combined thinking about what might be a useful set of tools, and/or web
learning environments for students across grade levels.
Best,
Bridget
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