Discovery Learning for Digital Natives in Class and Online

Abstract

Empowering todayââ¬â¢s students to bridge the external world and the internal dynamic of a classroom community is demonstrated here through strategies to encourage informationââ¬Â and technologyââ¬Ârich interactions within classroom discussion and to create opportunities for coââ¬Âcreation of Action Research goals, procedures and outcomes using a wiki. Illustrating techniques for encouraging the use of student mobile technologies within class as a means of fostering discovery learning (and avoiding linear transmission lectures), this session will include attitudeââ¬Âframing technology etiquette statements for syllabi and ââ¬Åplaysheetââ¬Â challenges motivating student engagement. These techniques and additional strategies are then applied to student discovery via Action Research in the field with a student authored and coââ¬Âcreated wiki. Attendees will briefly experience a discovery process, receive assignment handouts, discuss lessons learned, and be prepared to integrate such activities in their own coursework.