DIVIDE (YOURSELVES) AND RULE, HERE’S THE SIGN-UP TOOL

ByBart Cornille

Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle - BBC wildlife

Session 1

How does a group of social animals like ants organizes its own behavior?How can ants build such complex infrastructure and at the same time be so flexible towards its environment without any form of management or design?

Questions?

Gravity_baby , 9 months & a day

Session 1

How do individuals organize their own behavior?How does a group of human beings organizes its own behavior?How are groups being created?What determines a leader?

Questions?

SELF ORGANISATION !!!

One Answer?

Learning outcomes:

Participants will be able to define the concept of connectivism

Participants will be able to analyze the importance a self-organizing learning process

Participants will learn to create a sign-up list

Participants will be able to explore GTP with sign-up

Participants will be able to explore GTP with adaptive release and sign-up

Divide (yourselves) and rule, here’s the sign-up tool

Session 2:

Food for thought about learning today:

Think holistically

All the knowledge is in the connections (David Rumelhart)

The structure of the device becomes the structure of the knowledge (James Bosco)

Learning today

Connectivism

Connectivism is one of the theories that explore how learning happens in the digital age.

Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, complexity, and self-organization theories.

Connectivism

learning as a self-organizing process

Stand ad random in a closed circle with your group. Try to reorganise yourselves within the circle according to month + year of birth… without talking. Ssssssstt.

GAME/ACTIVITY

How can you effectively divide a group of 600 international students into groups of equal English language levels?

GROUPDISCUSSION

The sign-up tool in Blackboard

It is a tool which you make available through a content area in your course so that students can enroll themselves (sign up) for:

Tutor groups Activities Workshops Practicums Essays etc.

Example of GTP with sign-up

Example of GTP with sign-up

Example of GTP with sign-up

Added value of sign-up tool

controlling the group size allowing people to reserve places not displaying the names of those you have

signed up using the sign up lists generate blackboard group

membership add or remove users or use the list to populate

new or existing groups in Blackboard flexibility in allowing you to create multiple sign

up lists

Thank you!

Bart CornilleEducational Technologist

E-Campus

University Antwerp

Email: bart.cornille@ua.ac.beBlog:

http://backtoblackboard.wordpress.com/