Using Web 2.0 Teaching Tools for Motivating Students and Engaging Them in Creative Thinking @ The 20th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2012)

1. Mount Saint Mary College, Division of Mathematics and Information Technology, NY, USA
Dr. Bojan
Lazarevic
Using Web 2.0 Teaching Tools for
Motivating Students and Engaging Them
in Creative Thinking
Dr. Sebastian
Dr. Ilker Feller
Yengin
A*STAR, Institute of High Performance Computing , A*STAR, Institute of High Performance
(SSAEducational Technology), Singapore Computing, (SSALinguistics), Singapore

2. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective
Building
Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Online Negotiating
Tools Bubble Us Brainstorming Knowledge
Voice Thread Socratic Method
Type With Me Writing on Paper

3. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective
Building
Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Online Negotiating
Tools Bubble Us Brainstorming Knowledge
Voice Thread Socratic Method
Type With Me Writing on Paper

4. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective Building
Web 2.0 Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Traditional Media = Static Web

5. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective Building
Web 2.0 Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Main Characteristics
• Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just
retrieve information from the website
• Everyone is able to add to and edit the information
on the Web
• Active participation !!!

6. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective Building
Web 2.0 Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Main Characteristics
• Rich user experience • Metadata
• User participations • Web standards
• Dynamic content • Scalability

7. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective Building
Web 2.0 Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Ideas
• Individual production & User generated content
• Harnessing the power of the crowd
• Architecture of participation
• Network effect
• Openness

8. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective
Building
Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Online Negotiating
Tools Bubble Us Brainstorming Knowledge
Voice Thread Socratic Method
Type With Me Writing on Paper

9. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
The Unified Learning Model and General Rules of Learning
(Shell et al., 2009).
Rule 1. New Learning Requires Attention: “Teaching and instruction are about getting learners to attend
things”
Rule 2. Learning Requires Repetition: “Teaching needs to include retrieving and for skills, practice”
Rule 3. Learning Is About Connections: “Effective teaching and instruction are about insuring that learners
are attending proper connections”
Rule 4. Some Learning is Effortless; Some Requires Effort: “Since school is about deliberately learning
specific information and skills, learning in school will be difficult (needs effort)”.
Rule 5. Learning is Learning: “At the level of neuron, human learning is human learning, the only difference
comes from previous experiences. What we already know impacts what we can learn next or more easily”

10. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
The Unified Learning Model and General Rules of Learning
(Shell et al., 2009).
Rule 1. New Learning Requires Attention: “Teaching and instruction are about getting learners to attend
things”
Rule 2. Learning Requires Repetition: “Teaching needs to include retrieving and for skills, practice”
Rule 3. Learning Is About Connections: “Effective teaching and instruction are about insuring that learners
are attending proper connections”
Rule 4. Some Learning is Effortless; Some Requires Effort: “Since school is about deliberately learning
specific information and skills, learning in school will be difficult (needs effort)”.
Rule 5. Learning is Learning: “At the level of neuron, human learning is human learning, the only difference
comes from previous experiences. What we already know impacts what we can learn next or more easily”

11. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
Where to Use Cognitive Maps
1. Managing messy or complex data for understanding and easy access (C Eden & Ackermann, 1998; Colin
Eden, 2004; Colin Eden & Ackermann, 2004).
2. Showing someone’s conceptualization of a domain (Colin Eden, 1992).
3. Helping to make sense of the world (Kelly, 1992).
4. Communicating one’s own concepts and their relation (Johnson & Johnson, 2002).
5. Visualizing argumentations during brainstorming (Shum, Li, Domingue, & Motta, 2003).

12. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
Brainstorming & Creativity
Brainstorming : A creativity technique to find a conclusion for a specific problem ,
usually to generate ideas by exploring many different solutions (Coffer et.al., 2003).

13. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
Brainstorming & Creativity
A CONCEPT to A DESIGN
Ilker: A dog has a body
A Dog ‘s Sebastian: A dog has two legs
Basic Visual
Appearance
Ilker: A dog has a head
Sebastian: A dog has a tail

14. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
Pedagogic Problems

15. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
Solution : A Visual Coding with Cognitive Maps
Ilker: All Living Creatures have body in the end !
Ilker: A dog has a body
Sebastian: Yes you are right, they have
A Dog ‘s Sebastian: A dog has two legs
Basic Visual
Sebastian: I don’t think so, there are
Appearance 3 legs dogs also
Ilker: A dog has a head
Sebastian: A dog has a tail Ilker: They may have a tail different than a snake tail
Sebastian: What kind of a difference ?
Challenge Ask for justification or weaken a claim or attack. Support Provide support to previous entries.
Agree Accept. Inform Give information or answer a question.
Propose Generate a proposal, idea or present a solution. Question Seek information.

16. • A Dog ‘s Basic Visual Appearance
• Ilker: A dog has a body
• Sebastian: A dog has two legs
• Ilker: A dog has a head
• Sebastian: A dog has a tail
• Ilker: All Living Creatures have body in the end !
• Sebastian: Yes you are right, they have
• Ilker: They may have a tail different than a snake tail
• Sebastian: What kind of a difference ?
• Sebastian: I don’t think so, there are 3 legs dogs also
Challenge Ask for justification or weaken a claim or attack. Support Provide support to previous entries.
Agree Accept. Inform Give information or answer a question.
Propose Generate a proposal, idea or present a solution. Question Seek information.

17. Bubble Us Brainstorming
Cognitive Mapping Negotiating
Knowledge
Using a Web 2.0 Tool for a Visual Coding with Cognitive Maps

18. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective
Building
Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Online Negotiating
Tools Bubble Us Brainstorming Knowledge
Voice Thread Socratic Method
Type With Me Writing on Paper

19. Socratic
Voice Thread
The Socratic Method
Method Negotiating
Knowledge
• Guided knowledge building
• Active participation of student
• Problem solving in collaboration

20. Socratic
Voice Thread
The Socratic Method
Method Negotiating
Knowledge
Adjustments for modern learning
• Relaxing strict logical corset
• Asking deep explanation questions
– More contribution time for student
– Active problem solving by student
• Probing deep reasoning in student

21. Socratic
Voice Thread
The Socratic Method
Method Negotiating
Knowledge
VoiceThread
• Interactive online platform for dialog among
teachers and students
– Audio
– Text
– Pictures
– Videos
• Dialog can be carried on both online as well as
offline
– Contributions can be posted any time
– Incubation in problem solving

22. Socratic
Voice Thread
The Socratic Method
Method Negotiating
Knowledge
Self-Determination Theory
– Autonomy: make your own contributions
– Competence: intuitive usability
– Relatedness: build knowledge in collaboration
– (Deci & Ryan, 2000)

23. Socratic
Voice Thread
The Socratic Method
Method Negotiating
Knowledge
Using Socratic Method for Motivation with Voice Thread.

24. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective
Building
Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Online Negotiating
Tools Bubble Us Brainstorming Knowledge
Voice Thread Socratic Method
Type With Me Writing on Paper

25. Writing
Type With Me
Writing Paper
Paper Negotiating
Knowledge
TypeWithMe PrimaryPad
• TypeWithMe has been upgraded to PrimaryPard
TypeWithMe: http://typewith.me/
• However it still has the same and even better features
PrimaryPad: http://primarypad.com/

26. Social Construction
Individual’s perspective
Building
Conceptual Changes
Knowledge
Together
Online Negotiating
Tools Bubble Us Brainstorming Knowledge
Voice Thread Socratic Method
Type With Me Writing on Paper