Had some major win by starting to read more of the set texts. I have early unwrapped my xmas present of a kindle which means that its easier to read on my coomute. I've got a lot from scaffolding text to see how scaffolding works which already has helped in my work in understanding how we can support multidiscipline ict skills in students. Also the skinner article and artefacts politics.
But the most useful test is Construction dialogue in ICT professional development for the transformation of teachers' pedagogical beliefs and practices' by Sarah Prestridge. This is based around qualitive analysis of discussion boards used by networks of teachers in australia to collaboratively reflect on ICT multiliteracy development support in schoolkids. Her points on the types of artefacts of interaction affirm a lot of what I have felt in discussion group tasks so far.
Before reading this I felt that they were rather competitive places. I had come into a forum with a poster who was clearly well read and felt rather inhibited to post my self. Threads may stop suddenly as users choose to disengage. There are warm up activities such as trialling technology, introducing or excsing yourself. Mechanisms by which feedback is given supporting and comparison, paraphrsing. That many things aim only to build/reinforce community. I took that to mean that not everypost has necessarily to cover new ground but may instead by used cohease posters. By having a community this allows for discussion to cover more ground and recognition of fuller argument.
Sometimes there is need for a leader, overtimes when that leader needs to de-peer themselves and make requesat for comments by 3rd party.
Sometimes postings are disregarded and threads ignored or ended. This may happen and domething I am guilty of myself. As the author points out this could be to do with disagreement or lack of understanding of perception being put forwars, or inconfidence to enter into critical discourse. I have found this on th forums I was at. Often this guys posts are so long and fullscoping a response would in itself be long and not fit into the flexible mode of use I require of discussion boards. Also the content so full ranging in motive and ideas already concrete makes it difficult to take forwards.
So I may feel safer to be a lurker in the hope of inactive engagement is recognised as a useful activity. A post made may well be misplaced, along the wrong track for the values required in area of analysis but there must be a 'spae fornegotiation and misunderstanding'. So I can again rest easy.
How will I ytake this forward? I will look out for and respond to community building, encouragement for critical thinking. I will feel more confident in my posts as my own experience can apply practical thought.
It related to the guest speaker in last weeks cie on the types of enagaement seen on bulletin boards and chat.
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