Before the 'Quality sharing on Blogs' toolkit, I was idly reading through some of the resources the presenter had linked into their slides. I noticed Woolf Fisher had mentioned DLO's vs. DLA's. I am a naturally curious person so I asked what the difference was.
The presenter outlined it like so: A DLA is a digital learning artefact, something from a student's learning that they are proud of and want to show the world, but are not inviting further comment on. Whereas a DLO is a digital learning object, something that captures current learning and invites a conversation; or if I were to put it in knowledge building terms 'build on' the students work.
Wow.
This is just a small titbit that may not have been of any interest to other people in the toolkit, but it has just triggered a connection for me.
I can now see clear links between knowledge-building communities, which has been of huge interest to me in my teaching practice for the past four years, and learn-create-share which has formed the other string to my teaching inquiry.
I can see how I could leverage the affordances of blogging for knowledge building conversations with my students.
Oh, the possibilities.
Thank you I am now also clear on the two concepts!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I had fully realised the community/'share' aspect of blogging until now. Learning as a conversation not a monologue.
ReplyDeleteYesssss - spot on! It's proving incredibly challenging for teachers to come to grips with the importance and role of socially constructed learning, or as you and I know it, sense-making in knowledge building communities. I see Learn-Create-Share as a stepping stone to the more theoretically and practically complex practices of working in Knowledge Building Communities (Scardamalia / Bereiter). The mindset around only sharing what is 'finished' and 'perfect' is such a barrier for true understanding and learning, and knowledge acquisition - there is a place for 'DLA's', but the rich memorable learning experiences come from treating a DLO as a 'place holder' or frame for learning discussions rather than a finished artifact.
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