http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/ I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly - Michel de Montaigne Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:18:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/#comment-38323 StigmergicWeb » Blog Archive » Podcast #1 Mon, 14 May 2007 19:57:59 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/#comment-38323 <p>[...] Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment [...]</p> […] Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment […]

]]> http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/#comment-9891 Blogs as tools to support a Community of Inquiry at StigmergicWeb Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:13:28 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/#comment-9891 <p>[...] Donna and Terry discuss the use of blogs as tools to create and sustain a community of inquiry. The community of inquiry model was developed by Terry Anderson, Randy Garrison and Walter Archer. It describes three elements of educational transaction - cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence - and their use in designing online education. Their original research is available online at the Communities of Inquiry (CoI) website, and is well worth the read. At the time of the original research, they were looking mainly at threaded discussion, but these elements also work extremely well if one looks at blogs as the communication tool. This line of thought actually occurred to me two years ago when I was at a presentation by Walter Archer entitled Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment at the Instructional Design conference in Saskatoon, in which he discussed the community of inquiry model. Dirk Morrison had also used the CoI model earlier in the day. One of my first thoughts when looking at the CoI model was that blogs could be used to create cognitive, social and teaching presence, not in any sort of centralized location, but in a much more diffuse and distributed fashion. Here are my notes from the presentation - Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment. (I also blogged some notes about Alec Couros’ presentation on education blogging, and Alec has his educational blogging presentation slides online) My first podcast also describes the conference - StigmergicWeb podcast #1. (link is to blog entry) OK - back to the paper. Donna and Terry (I keep wanting to retreat back into academic speak by saying “The authors …” or “Cameron and Anderson …”, but that wouldn’t be very blog-ish of me, would it? Informality is an inherent part of the medium. But I digress …) then show how blogs have positive and negative aspects with regard to all three types of presence. One particular thought I like is about teaching presence: This means that the design of LMS based courses tend to exclude use of emerging Internet tools such as collaborative bookmarking, FOAF, podcasting, synchronous web conferencing and other social software and external database systems. Thus, the design and organization component of teaching presence is generally more restricted when LMS based conferencing systems are used as opposed to blogging tools. [...]</p> […] Donna and Terry discuss the use of blogs as tools to create and sustain a community of inquiry. The community of inquiry model was developed by Terry Anderson, Randy Garrison and Walter Archer. It describes three elements of educational transaction - cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence - and their use in designing online education. Their original research is available online at the Communities of Inquiry (CoI) website, and is well worth the read. At the time of the original research, they were looking mainly at threaded discussion, but these elements also work extremely well if one looks at blogs as the communication tool. This line of thought actually occurred to me two years ago when I was at a presentation by Walter Archer entitled Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment at the Instructional Design conference in Saskatoon, in which he discussed the community of inquiry model. Dirk Morrison had also used the CoI model earlier in the day. One of my first thoughts when looking at the CoI model was that blogs could be used to create cognitive, social and teaching presence, not in any sort of centralized location, but in a much more diffuse and distributed fashion. Here are my notes from the presentation - Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment. (I also blogged some notes about Alec Couros’ presentation on education blogging, and Alec has his educational blogging presentation slides online) My first podcast also describes the conference - StigmergicWeb podcast #1. (link is to blog entry) OK - back to the paper. Donna and Terry (I keep wanting to retreat back into academic speak by saying “The authors …” or “Cameron and Anderson …”, but that wouldn’t be very blog-ish of me, would it? Informality is an inherent part of the medium. But I digress …) then show how blogs have positive and negative aspects with regard to all three types of presence. One particular thought I like is about teaching presence: This means that the design of LMS based courses tend to exclude use of emerging Internet tools such as collaborative bookmarking, FOAF, podcasting, synchronous web conferencing and other social software and external database systems. Thus, the design and organization component of teaching presence is generally more restricted when LMS based conferencing systems are used as opposed to blogging tools. […]

]]> http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/#comment-103 StigmergicWeb » Blog Archive » Podcast #1 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2004/11/19/fostering-critical-thinking-in-an-online-environment/#comment-103 <p>[...] ouros blogging presentation. Alec blogs at http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/couros <a href="http://stigmergicweb.org/index.php?p=129">Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment</a> Communities of Inquiry website Nine Myths A [...]</p> […] ouros blogging presentation. Alec blogs at http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/couros Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment Communities of Inquiry website Nine Myths A […]

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