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 [...]
E-learning is an Evolutionary Change The adoption of e-learning implies a modification to my teaching. I have not had the fortunate opportunity to work in a school recently that I had access to enough working technology to incorporate e-learning into teaching practice. As a relieving teacher in the last school, I was not provided with [...]
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 [...]