What to do and what not to do??!!
Since I came to work for the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, I have been enamored by the idea of "always on" learning. In many of the articles I have examined before, during and since the article presentations, as well as, in my experience as an educational technologist, I noticed a trend that this approach to learning is best adapted by the younger college-going population rather than the older, "continuing education" population.
The college-going population is used to being bombarded with different messages from different devices. For example, I specialize in providing content to students commonly via course management systems and podcasting. However, some technologies lend themselves to learning than others. Podcasting and wikis have been clear winners in this domain, while the jury still seems to be out on how effective Facebook can be.
I am considering the following:
- Exploring the value of Wikis in social learning
- Exploring how podcasts and RSS in general assist in social learning
- Exploring how Facebook has been used as a social learning tool to date
- Exploring suggestions you may have
My "epiphany in the shower" is due any day now!
The college-going population is used to being bombarded with different messages from different devices. For example, I specialize in providing content to students commonly via course management systems and podcasting. However, some technologies lend themselves to learning than others. Podcasting and wikis have been clear winners in this domain, while the jury still seems to be out on how effective Facebook can be.
I am considering the following:
- Exploring the value of Wikis in social learning
- Exploring how podcasts and RSS in general assist in social learning
- Exploring how Facebook has been used as a social learning tool to date
- Exploring suggestions you may have
My "epiphany in the shower" is due any day now!
1 Comments:
I think any of these areas would be interesting to explore. At this point, you just need to choose one and run with it! :)
For all of them, however, I think you'll need to be specific what you mean by social learning. This may entail reading an article or two, so that in the introduction you can give a solid definition that. Also, how does "social learning" relate to "always on learning?" This may be something you'll want to make clear as well.
By SarahL, At November 18, 2007 1:43 PM
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