I first read Larissa's blog and a lot of it resonated with my post this week. She first talked about how prevalent collectives are and how how easily accessible they are now with technology. She then talked about gamer collectives as being one of the best example of a collective. Currently we are giving our seniors a reward for doing well on the recent round of MAPs testing. They are playing games and teaching and helping each other. They are totally engaged in what they are doing. It just goes to show the power of a game and the dialogue we can have when we are into what we are doing. Even thought the game is hard and they aren't always winning they still want to play over and over again. It has really made me want to gamify my classroom more. I just wish I either had the same group of students or taught the same classes. I'm struggling just to put a game together for my 8th graders. I have the bulletin board set up and they have each picked characters but I am struggling to get the other parts ready. I wish it was easy to recreate a game like environment.
Jim talked about how teachers should try to incorporate the collective as much as possible by using project based learning or collaborative or cooperative learning. This encourages students to connect and I think the authors would agree. He then went on to talk about how this is not new and I agree but I am not sure the collective is project based learning, collective learning, or collaborative learning. I think they could fit in but they are not the same thing. I think technology really helps to just connect people of like interests because I believe that is where the collective is. In a classroom you are going to have a lot of diversity but online you can get a group of similar minded individuals. I comment to Jim that I thought the authors idea of the collective was more about joining something that interests you and finding a way to leave your mark. In education you are forced to do what the teacher expects. In education students will always have to do things that aren't in their interests so I guess it is more about how to incorporate student interest when it might not naturally be there.
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