This is a narrative written to summarize my learning journey during the Teaching for E-Learning course. The artefacts can be accessed in MyPortfolio. A Continuing Journey – Start and Finish Points in This Course This narrative describes the learning journey I embarked on during the course on Teaching for e-Learning. It is part of a [...]
Technology potentially can have a detrimental effect on human communication. It is important to humanize the experiences of combining technology with social activity (Kehrwald, 2008) to support the development of collaborative learning communities. In order to humanize the experiences it is necessary to understand the real and practical issues that face colleagues so that gaps [...]
Teachers should start out with having one technological skill that they feel competent at. They should integrate that pedagogically into their teaching/learning. They should suggest to their students that they use that technology in their learning, collaborating and sharing OR find another one that they can use and share with others. Then, they should integrate [...]
There is a need to rethink pedagogy in order to replace the learner as consumer and move towards learners as ‘prosumers’ (McLoughlin, 2008). A ‘prosumer’ refers to learners that produce and consume information. Knowledge is not valuable in a static form, but is valuable when it is shared, when it becomes a vehicle. Today, knowledge [...]
I recently read McLoughlin and Lee’s article, The Three P’s of Pedagogy for the Networked Society: Personalization, Participation, and Productivity (McLoughlin, 2008), which highlights the need to rethink pedagogy, our model for teaching and learning, in order to replace the learner as consumer and move towards learners as ‘prosumers’. A ‘prosumer’ refers to learners that [...]
Reflections from a course on Foundations of e Learning Recent teaching experiences has made it obvious to me that there is a growing disconnect between the learning that is expected to exist and the technology that is being introduced. Successful learning and teaching is mistakenly being measured by the use of the most recent technology [...]
Toastmasters Speech #4 – How to Say It Learning During the Information Explosion Click on the link above to listen to the speech. Learning and teaching does not just occur in schools and in classrooms. We have opportunities to teach and learn in our personal lives, in our businesses, in our community groups and within [...]
Our world is changing and many of our schools today are becoming dangerously irrelevant. Teachers need to re-examine the pedagogy they are using. It needs to take into consideration that information is out there, that we are all co-constructors of learning, and that we are all co-constructors of knowledge. A modern ‘classroom’ isn’t just four [...]