As we have seen in our readings, chats and discussions, emerging
technologies cannot be wished away in the present ever changing world
and especially classrooms, but all the forces we know of embrace it eg
social forces and economic forces. For the children who want to get a
good education, they have to keep up with the new technologies like
tweeter, blogging, IM, chats even texting, and not give in. With texting
though, once they get of age to have cell phones the gadget stays in
their hands constantly and so it comes easily. Here is a twist about Text Messages
But what I can see and I have to say that this is just a layman
retorting and not a research finding at all, is that although there will
be more than enough end point user hardware around the world, there
might be difficulties when it comes to connectivity. As we have seen in
our readings (Web 2.0 and Disrupting Class text), some countries are
far ahead when it comes to connectivity of the World Wide Web but none
of them has reached the perfect level (100%). So this will always be
hindrances as far as online learning and especially due to the
financial, technical and logistical difficulties attached to it. For the
majority of the countries finance is a problem, especially most of
third world countries. We have to bear in mind that it is not
collaborative learning until we hear from everybody in different parts
of the world. At the same time, I believe that every country is doing
its very best for their citizens to be connected and be part of this
great experience and even better become global citizens.
Putting that aside, my take for a good education is not just mastering
the lectures and readings provided by the teacher but also relating the
lectures and readings to the real world events. For example, apart from
just listening to news and getting satisfied by what you have heard, an
educated individual will try getting other views from other sources
using the internet, texting friends to know what they think and so on.
Paulo Barsio explains this better here .
Social networks have grown very rapidly and they offer fast ways to
organize things like get together, sharing, lazar fast communication and
meetings as they collaborate. Such are the functionalities I think
kids will benefit from but by using them for educational purposes other
than just socializing. See this Computer Games Another way
that student can learn better is using online based computer games. This
is well explained here Educational Computer Games
Friday, September 24, 2010
Linda Harasim on Online Collaborative Learning
Check out this Slide Share Presentation: This slide has provided vital pointers to collaborative learning. The most important take away is that online learning is not necessarily the cheapest option to acquiring an education. It could be very expensive irrespective of where you are. In the US though, it is relatively cheap though not for classes modeled around traditional brick and mortar classes. The other issue is that despite the expense, the graduation rate is usually high, something that is very encouraging. However, due to the advent of the information age, and the lightning speed with which it spreads, global online collaborative learning is yet to pick up like a bush fire on a very dry summer.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
First time blogging
Hey everybody. Welcome to my blog. I hope you are all excited too like me. This is my first blog and I cannot wait to blog more:)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
New Technologies
As we have seen in our readings, chats and discussions emerging technologies can not be wished away in the present ever changing world. For the children who want to get a good education, they have to keep up with the new technologies like tweeter, blogging, IM, chats even texting. My take for a good education is not just mastering the lectures and readings provided by the teacher but also relating the lecture and readings to the reall world event. For example apart from just listening to new and getting sutistied by what you have heard an educated individual will try to getting other view from other sources using the the internet, texting friends to know what they think and so on.
Social networks have grown very repidly and they offer fast ways to organize things like get togethers, parties, meetings such are the funtionalities that I think kids will benefit from but in an educational manner other than just socilizing. Another way that student can learn better is using computer game. THis is well expalined inthe following excapt
Social networks have grown very repidly and they offer fast ways to organize things like get togethers, parties, meetings such are the funtionalities that I think kids will benefit from but in an educational manner other than just socilizing. Another way that student can learn better is using computer game. THis is well expalined inthe following excapt
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