Participating and mediating in social software learning environment is closely related to the social construction of knowledge that Levy (2000) calls “collective intelligence”. Levy argues that in such an environment, the group as a whole can tap what any one person knows. Writing is as Bakhtin claims, “the product of the whole complex social situation in which it has occurred” (quotd in Todorov, 1984). The dialogical design of writing tasks in blogs and wiki or podcast production in the networked community allows conversations to fuel these writing and vice versa. Concepts and ideas can be amplified in such collective participation. This form of learning design hence requires a shift from the personalized media that was central to the idea of the digital revolution toward socialized media that is central to the culture of media convergence (H.Jenkins,2006a).
References:
Jenkins, H. (2006a). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press.
Todorov, T., (1984). Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
3 comments:
How funny is this, I have just posted a comment in my blog (http://melissapang.blogspot.com) regarding people lurking in online courses and I read your quote of the day:
"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there’s less competition."
Indira Gandhi 1917—1984
Collective intelligence is a good term for "dialogical design of writing tasks in blogs and wiki or podcast production". I like that word "dialogical". It captures the sense of a group mind working together on a project which will achieve great things.
Bill D
Thanks Melissa for pointing out the good coincidence that can occur in the dynamics of web 2.0 environment.
I've gotten the quotes of the day from some sites and incorporated it into the java coded widget. Let me know if you will like that in your blog and I can teach you how to do it, it's quite simple actually.
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