Comments on: New Technology Supporting Informal Learning http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/02/19/new-technology-supporting-informal-learning-2/ learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:56:23 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Lauren http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/02/19/new-technology-supporting-informal-learning-2/comment-page-1/#comment-40424 Lauren Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:51:57 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4627#comment-40424 In graduate school we incorporate many aspects of social media, that are actually very tactful, I was even surprised. Twitter, Jing, HotPotatoes, are just a few of what I've been using in my classes. The character and timing constraints make it challenging to provide learners with the most central and key ideas, which allows creativity to become cultivated. I believe knowing what professors want to teach is attainable in creative ways, I think a lot of it is based around innovative inventions for teaching in an online classroom. In graduate school we incorporate many aspects of social media, that are actually very tactful, I was even surprised. Twitter, Jing, HotPotatoes, are just a few of what I’ve been using in my classes. The character and timing constraints make it challenging to provide learners with the most central and key ideas, which allows creativity to become cultivated. I believe knowing what professors want to teach is attainable in creative ways, I think a lot of it is based around innovative inventions for teaching in an online classroom.

]]> By: Doug Belshaw http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/02/19/new-technology-supporting-informal-learning-2/comment-page-1/#comment-40077 Doug Belshaw Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:02:44 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4627#comment-40077 I wish everyone used something like http://digress.it (as I do on my thesis blog - http://dougbelshaw.com/thesis) Would make life a bit easier... :-) I wish everyone used something like http://digress.it (as I do on my thesis blog – http://dougbelshaw.com/thesis)

Would make life a bit easier… :-)

]]> By: Doug Holton http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/02/19/new-technology-supporting-informal-learning-2/comment-page-1/#comment-39540 Doug Holton Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:06:21 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=4627#comment-39540 Wish there was a way to annotate articles. Virtually every paragraph has issues. Elgg the successor to Drupal? Simulations must have a start point and an end point and are inherently static? It is impossible for simulations & games to design unerringly for the learning needs of the student? Is that every possible? The digital natives / digital immigrants idea has been refuted by many, along with ideas like "A child raised on text will think and learn differently from a child raised on cartoons or Facebook" "to push learning decisions down the hierarchy or out to the edges of the network" - it really pushes decisions to those with the loudest, most frequent voices and strongest opinions And it is quite obviously false that no one knows what they want to teach: "an essential element in learning today, the simple fact that we don't know what we want to teach" Wish there was a way to annotate articles. Virtually every paragraph has issues.

Elgg the successor to Drupal?

Simulations must have a start point and an end point and are inherently static?

It is impossible for simulations & games to design unerringly for the learning needs of the student? Is that every possible?

The digital natives / digital immigrants idea has been refuted by many, along with ideas like “A child raised on text will think and learn differently from a child raised on cartoons or Facebook”

“to push learning decisions down the
hierarchy or out to the edges of the network” – it really pushes decisions to those with the loudest, most frequent voices and strongest opinions

And it is quite obviously false that no one knows what they want to teach: “an essential element in learning today, the simple fact that we don’t know what
we want to teach”

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