Toward a Radically Critical Media Education: A Case of Wiki Pedagogical Integration in Greece - Marianna Vivitsou

Toward a Radically Critical Media Education:
A Case of Wiki Pedagogical Integration in Greece

Marianna Vivitsou
PhD Scholar, Researcher
CICERO Learning, University of Helsinki

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Networked Sociality: Virtue or Vice?
• “So what exactly are teens _doing_ on
MySpace? Simple: they're hanging out…..
This is important in the development of a
social worldview.” danah boyd, 2006
– SNSs profile grounded within the context of
offline friends & contacts (boyd, 2006; Zhao et
al., 2008)
– Social presence sustained through ‘catching-up’
technologies (comments, status updates etc)
(Miller, 2011)


On the other hand…
Collaborative Learning requires
• Common goals & joint efforts toward problem
solving situations (Rochelle & Teasley 1995)
• And negotiation targeting shared
meaning, cognitive field, knowledge (Nystrand
1986, Rogoff 1990; and others)


The Challenges
• In what ways Alexandros

– student networked sociality manifests ?
– students approach collaboration ?
– Teacher blended presence develops ?

Dimitris

Marianna


School BREAK migrates @Sch.I.P.

• Wiki technical functionalities allow for:
– Combination of Collaboration…
• Collaborative content development
• Editing & Commenting individually or not
– With Sociality: Creation & maintenance of pages
• personal & of general interest
– + Visual element embeddedness
• images & videos


Individual + Collective = (Sum)?

188 members • 121 active (118S : 3T)

(178S : 10T) • 26 admins (20S : 6T)

• 12 parent
100 pages (52 (environment, School, Web
tools etc.)
: 48PP, 38S) • 31 sub-topics
• 09 child-pages

Plethora of • images, videos, other
Media


Most Visited Pages

‘If I were the
Main page Education
socialization (V=8094, C=589) Minister’
(V=1709, C=83)

‘A School with a
Difference:
‘Topics’
Between Now
(V=1413, C=39)
and the Future’
(V=935, C=54). argumentation


Personal Pages

From the self to the external world

Visual
Arts, Music, Flirting, Friendship, Current Profiles
news, Obesity, Books & reading…


The Study: Participants & Methods
Male Female
School 1 23 38 61
School 2 31 43 74
School 3 10 15 25
64 96 160

• Qualitative Approach and Statistical analysis (SPSS)
of quantitative data (questionnaires)
• Content Analysis
– Questionnaire open-ended items
– Student contributions
• page edits, comments


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Student perspective shifts
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7
School as a Space for :
6
Collaboration
Ομάδα ζςνεπγαηών
5
Personality growth
Χώπορ ανάπηςξηρ νέων ςπεύθςνων
ανθπώπων
4
Idea exchange
Χώπορ ανηαλλαγήρ ιδεών

3 Σηήπιγμα –Enhancement
Life εθόδιο για ηο μέλλον

2

1

0 Q1 Q2
Απσικό Ύζηεπο


Traditional School in Doubt
Q1 Αρχικό Q2 Ύστερο

Schooling & Skill Development Mean St. dev. Mean St. dev.

Oral Communication 8,16 2,02 3,48 2,12

Written Communication 7,75 2,09 3,59 2,16

Internet Use 6,88 2,65 4,09 2,13

Willingness to Learn 6,39 3,00 3,41 2,03


@Social Virtual Space for…
• Dialogue development
• Collaboration & creativity boost; active participation (even for
less ‘sociable’ students)
• Peer learning & support; cognitive & meta-cognitive
development
• Student leadership & initiative
• Emotion expressiveness
• Real life requirements (“our parents will not always be able to
support us”): Self-efficacy, self-esteem
• Collective thinking; understanding the ‘otherness’ (“we needed
to function not only as individuals but also as a team, and we
did..”, “we managed to ‘see’ the other students’ perspective”
• Looking at reality Critically (“It would be great if the teachers
allowed more space for us…” «Agree... The majority of the
teachers… are restrictive… we can’t grow wings to fly away”»


The Difference
• Networked Sociality & Content development
– Internet & services as Tools for Learning
• Global perspective of the local, the regional, the
national
– The Self, the Other, the Community
• Human relations
– Negotiation, Conflict management
• (Shared) Knowledge (Co-)Construction


The School of the Future
Blends Reconsiders
• Virtuality & Actuality Student-Teacher
• Synchronous & Roles
@synchronous acts
• asymmetry reviewed
• multiple actor
involvement

Negotiates Enhances Student
curricular & Teacher
specifications Mobility


Connective technologies as…
• Vehicles of educational change toward the
School of the Future. In this space, content
emerges out of the learners’ definitions of own
needs in an on-going negotiation process.


Toward a Radically Critical Media Education

• founded upon the principles of
democratic, communitarian, global citizenship

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Thank You
for Your Attention! 

Mari@nna Vivitsou
• Contact: animavit@gmail.com

Presentation based on:
Vivitsou, Μ., Konetas, D., Gkikas, Αl., Kotoulas, V. (2009). From Social Networking
to Web-based Collaborative Learning in Lower Secondary Education: A Case
Study. In Proceedings 1st Conference Educational Sciences, University of Athens.
Athens, 28-31 May 2009.

Toward a Radically Critical Media Education: A Case of Wiki Pedagogical Integration in Greece - Marianna Vivitsou

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