fabio suarez's List: apprentissage collaboratif

• y Cathy N. Davidson
• Attention blindness is the fundamental structuring principle of the brain, and I believe that it presents us with a tremendous opportunity
• Fortunately, given the interactive nature of most of our lives in the digital age, we have the tools to harness our different forms of attention and take advantage of them.
• t's not easy for us rational, competent, confident types to admit that the very key to our success—our ability to pinpoint a problem and solve it, an achievement honed in all those years in school and beyond—may be exactly what limits us.
• Unfortunately, current practices of our educational institutions—and workplaces—are a mismatch between the age we live in and the institutions we have built over the last 100-plus years
• Attention to task is at the heart of industrial labor management, from the assembly line to the modern office, and of educational philosophy, from grade school to graduate school.
• crowdsourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be limited in what we conceive to be the problem, let alone the answer.

  • este es un argumento de porque es importante el crowdsourcing en las competencias de los nuevos investigadores, es importante complementarse del punto de vista de los demas, ya que enriquecen nuestro trabajo, si trabajamos solos, nos vamos a limitar unicamente a nuestra experiencia y conocimiento
• Participatory learning" is one term used to describe how we can learn together from one another's skills
• Cognitive surplus" is another used in the digital world for that "more than the sum of the parts" form of collaborative thinking that happens when groups think together online.
• We used a method that I call "collaboration by difference
• Collaboration by difference is an antidote to attention blindness
• It signifies that the complex and interconnected problems of our time cannot be solved by anyone alone, and that those who think they can act in an entirely focused, solitary fashion are undoubtedly missing the main point that is right there in front of them, thumping its chest and staring them in the face.

  • una razon mas para justificar porque el chercheur debe trabajar en equipo y no solo
• Collaboration by difference respects and rewards different forms and levels of expertise, perspective, culture, age, ability, and insight, treating difference not as a deficit but as a point of distinction
• Wikipedia is an educator's fantasy, all the world's knowledge shared voluntarily and free in a format theoretically available to all, and which anyone can edit. Instead of banning it, I challenged my students to use their knowledge to make Wikipedia better.
• if bad writing is a product of the form of writing required in college—the term paper—and not necessarily intrinsic to a student's natural writing style or thought process?
• Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers. Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.
• The Internet, she discovered, had allowed them to develop their writing.
• The objective was to get rid of a lot of the truisms about "the dumbest generation" and actually look at how new theories of the brain and of attention might help us understand how forms of thinking and collaborating online maximize brain activity.

  • de pronto tocabuscar informacion sobre las teorias del cerebro y de la atencion para justificar mucho mas porque el investigador debe trabajar en red
• So I added the crowdsourcing component based on the way I had already structured the course

  • en este caso laprofe ponia como evaluacion a los estudiantes ,revisar los blog de los companeros

  • le crowdsourcing lo propuso como una forma complementaria de la evaluacion de los estudiantes
• That's not a role most students experience, even though every study of learning shows that you learn best by teaching someone else.
• Besides, if constant public self-presentation and constant public feedback are characteristics of a digital age, why aren't we rethinking how we evaluate, measure, test, assess, and create standards?
• They seem to love learning and sharing what they know with others. But much of our emphasis on grading is based on the assumption that learning is like cod-liver oil: It is good for you, even though it tastes horrible going down
• If we crowdsource grading, we are suggesting that young people without credentials are fit to judge quality and value.
• This Is Your Brain on the Internet" was intended to model a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. More than anything, it courted failure. Unlearning.
• athy N. Davidson is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Duke University. She served as the first vice provost for interdisciplinary studies at the university from 1998 until 2006, when she helped create the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. This essay is adapted from her book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, just published by Viking.

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• like saving current articles that relate to course content. For instance, I am constantly running across advances in genetics that fit perfectly into my medical ethics course. I put links to these articles into my wiki. Importantly, I encourage students to do the same so that they feel a part of a knowledge community that is exploring the topics together.

  • aca tambien explica como este profe trabaja su curso con aprendizaje colaborativo
• One of the biggest mistakes we make in education is keeping the good work our students do hidden from the public. While professors are supposed to make public their research to advance understanding in their field, student work is only seen by the instructor and the student. Why not make the best work public? Not only does this encourage students to do better work, but also makes that work a resource for future students. Other students can benefit from the work, and it can serve as a model of what the instructor wants from students.
• put my students into small groups and assign each the project of developing a learning module on a topic covered in class. The resulting module is posted to the wiki along with the other class content. That module needs to have learning content, such as a voice-over PowerPoint or VoiceThread, as well as an assessment module, like an online quiz, and recommended resources.

  • aca se habla de un ejemplo que utiliza el aprendizaje colaborativo

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• ’m probably most frustrated by the fact that there are huge gaps in the consistency of sharing/citation tools (not to mention the design and organization) across Gale database platforms and that some databases for K12 (like Student Research Center from EBSCOhost) don’t offer ANY of these options for students.  It’s difficult to pitch the value of database resources on “authority” alone when the search interfaces and sharing/posting/exporting options are so vastly different and confusing to young learners.

• Why does this matter?  Take a look at these skills in the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner:

   
   
  • 1.2.2 Demonstrate confidence and self-direction by making independent choices in the selection of resources and information.
   
  • 3.1 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners.
   
  • 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.
   
  • 4.1.6 Organize personal knowledge in a way that can be called upon easily.
   
  • 4.1.7 Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information.
• If database platforms aren’t consistent in basic features for sharing, bookmarking, and exporting bibliographic data, students will experience greater difficulty in utilizing these resources as they create personal learning environments and utilize contemporary curation and bookmarking tools (as well as social media tools for reflection and discussion of learning/research experiences)

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