Illumination Text
"Participatory media cultures sometimes include very productive learning environments."
Online media sites are biased toward the social and tend to be inherently collaborative in nature. When people get together and discuss certain concepts regarding their works, learning is taking place. There is healthy criticism and analysis taking place, which often times leads to the fine-tuning of one's skills.
"I believe that current classroom practices which focus mainly on individualized learning need to learn from what I and others (Gee, 2004; Williamson and Facer) have noted about online learning collaboration; that each individual can achieve more by interacting with others."
Whether you're scrolling through Twitter or online forums, you can't help but notice that there is actual learning making place in an online environment. And it's not one person doing all the work--but rather it is a collective effort.
In order to truly analyze genuine learning taking place, I look outside of the school. Learning is all around us, and it is increasingly becoming a collective effort.
We need to take this collective learning style and directly apply it to the classroom setting. Students of today are created for this, and we owe it to them to design our curriculum around 21st century style learning.
"Groups are an excellent way of structuring activities and, while allowing a whole range of creative responses, provide rules for participation and learning."
I find groups to be an ideal atmosphere for learning. Good and consistent learning does require a bit of structure, and groups can offer that by providing general social rules for participation. By engaging in group learning, students have the potential to develop good learning habits that primary come from working with a group like cooperation and persistence.
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