Hello and welcome to the WSTKS-FM Worldwide blog through which we explore Digital Collaborative Learning for the 21st Century What exactly do we mean by the term? Well, let’s start by breaking down the term and looking at each part of it in closer detail:
1) Digital Learning -- An instructional practice that makes use of a broad range of technology-enhanced educational strategies. It includes blended learning, flipped learning, personalized learning, and other strategies that rely on digital tools.
2) Collaborative Learning -- An umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together. Usually, students are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for understanding, solutions, or meanings, or creating a product.
3) 21st Century Skills -- Includes a broad range of knowledge and skills vital in the 21st century, including critical thinking, collaboration, compiling and managing information, creativity, problem-solving, and time-management among many others.
4) Digital Collaborative Learning for the 21st Century -- Involves the use of an array of technologies and applications to engage in an ongoing democratic process of examining, defining, analyzing, and understanding course materials. Based on that routine collaborative procedure each week, students present their learning through the creation and sharing of new knowledge.
As members of hybrid, online, and even face-to-face courses, students practice an array of 21st century skills – cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal -- to develop and disseminate their newly acquired knowledge through a variety of digitally created team projects. For our purposes in the context of this particular course, these assignments include image, video, and sound files, podcasts, flipbooks, infographics, interactive posters, blog entries, podcasts,and interactive scrapbooks for example.
And there we have it. Digital collaborative learning for the 21st century is how you and your student learning team will approach the material presented in this course. I’ll see you in class, online, or during Zoom office hours if you drop by with a question!
-- Prof. Schwartz
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