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Classroom Salon – A 21 st Century Meeting of the Minds

Classroom Salon – A 21 st Century Meeting of the Minds. David Kaufer, English Ananda Gunawardena, CSD. How can S ocial L earning enhance Learning outcomes for Students?. Salon started in 2007 when we were Musing about Two Ancient Conundra :. Can we motivate students to read?

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Classroom Salon – A 21 st Century Meeting of the Minds

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  1. Classroom Salon – A 21st Century Meeting of the Minds David Kaufer, English Ananda Gunawardena, CSD

  2. How can Social Learning enhanceLearning outcomes for Students?

  3. Salon started in 2007 when we were Musing about Two Ancient Conundra: • Can we motivate students to read? • Can we monitor their reading? • We turned these ancient questions into modern ones: • Can we enhance student understanding of texts through social networking? • Can we make these social networks contagious?

  4. And We Built Salon: • A technology that transparently links • annotation • data analysis • visualization

  5. Leading To: Deeper Student Engagement Social learning Efficient and Effective Class Prep Real Time Formative Assessment

  6. And all you need to do is to upload or type a document into a Salon

  7. Users Annotate by Selecting

  8. They Respond to Questions and can Cite Textual Support.

  9. They Build a Community with their Peers

  10. Users Who are Part of the hotspot Darker Shades Indicate more User Activity They monitor activity in their community

  11. Take a Document with Thirty Five Users Where are the Hotspots? Salon finds the buzz….

  12. 11 Users Commented in the Highlighted Areas

  13. As we relax the requirements for a hotspotwe see more hotspots

  14. 10 or more

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  23. Here are all the annotations

  24. Collective attention is rare All 35 users annotated over 60% of the text; But no 6 users annotated even the same 5%.

  25. Salon Supports Perspectives of Reading • Students can select roles • moralists or pragmatists. • Salon can filter annotations made from these different perspectives

  26. Students identifying as moralists had one pattern of annotations

  27. Students identifying as pragmatists had another

  28. Moralists and pragmatists cited different regions of text to make their case

  29. Social MediaandKnowledge Assets

  30. Salon Can Form Communities of Readers of Popular Media

  31. Salon Combines Social Media and Social Learning

  32. Salon Enables Real Time Tracking of Knowledge Assets

  33. So much knowledge from user annotations…

  34. Salon is funded by • National Science Foundation • Innovation Works • Heinz Foundation (through CTTEC) • And Lots of Talented People who Donated their Time

  35. Who Uses Salon? And many others that we’d list except that you then wouldn’t be able to read the slide. South Fayette Public Schools Qatar Academy Grove City College • CMU Global Campuses • Allegheny Intermediate Unit • University of Pittsburgh Law School

  36. Salon is growing

  37. And we invite you torequest an account @http://classroomsalon.org

  38. Thank you Salon Team • YitzFrancus • Reed McManigle • Ari Lightman • Babs Carrier • Aaron Tan • Dev Doshi • And many many others …..

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