TWT2010_25.+Community+and+cognition+in+science+class+-+How+social+networking+sites+can+accelerate+learning

Description:
Middle school students accelerate their creative and productive learning when given a chance to learn in groups and to feel a part of a community. Many technologies give teachers the chance to enhance the learning community. In this workshop participants will see how a group of 7th and 8th graders use technology to learn science through collaboration. Wikis, Nings, multimedia production and Google docs are some of the examples of classroom work that will be shown. Each example will be coupled with a targeted cognitive skills and science content that the technology was able to enhance.

I will be running the session through this wiki. collaboratehere