Connected Learning: Collaboration, Audience & Authenticity

Design technology-rich learning that connects students with peers, experts, communities, current information and meaningful audiences.

• Connect for a learning reason — A connection is only useful when it adds something the classroom cannot easily provide alone.
• Design for an audience that changes the work — Authentic audiences create reasons to clarify, revise and care about communication.
• Use experts for perspective, not performance — Expert access is valuable when learners prepare, interact and do something with what they learn.
• Design collaboration across distance — Technology can distribute expertise, evidence and perspective across people who are not in the same room.
• Make authentic connection safe and proportionate — Real audiences and external connections still require privacy, consent and good judgement.