Web 2.0 encourages and provides interactive (Voicethread, iSketch, etc.), interconnectivity (facebook, Myspace, etc.) and collaborative (wikis, blogs, etc.) to internet users. They construct and exchange knowledge among each other via Web 2.0 applications by sharing and construct their information or knowledge.
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Users can construct their knowledge on the basic information or knowledge uploaded by other users. Web 2.0 encourages users to create and publish their own professional knowledge or skills. These learning activities made users to be double identities – students and teachers / learners and coaches.
Teachers become "Networked Teachers" can use different materials (traditional textbooks, wikis, blogs, voicethread, digital photo sharing, etc.) to sitmulate students learning and let them collaborate to do projects. Teachers should know how to use them to build up curriculum or integrate them as a series of teaching tools to facilitate their teaching and student's learning.
Users (Teachers and students) build, interact and construct their knowledge via these tools.
If the identities of networked teacher and netwoked student can be interexchanged, then what is the duty of a "real" teacher ( teaching in the classroom or lab). The "real" teacher maintains the network learning curriculum, learning synthesizer and connected learning incubator.
I run into Howard Gardner’s article on Did the New Digital Media change anything? He said that the human system evolves slowly & fundamental human nature (e.g. cognition, emotions, characters etc) does not change as fast as culture. But he also predicted that these new digital media (NDM) in the long term (waiting for a tipping point) would affect human life qualitatively particularly how we experience the world.
What does network mean to me?
‘Digital divide’ is the first word not in sense of access gap but generation gap. A large portion of my school & work life is ‘pre-digital’. The word ‘network’ largely relates to people – family, friends, colleagues, business partners & many others. ‘Social networking’ means coffee breaks, drinks at bars, lunches & dinners talks, sports events at tennis court; golf courses, boating etc. ‘Collaborative learning’ means face to face meetings, brainstorming workshops, team building exercises & so on & so forth. People mediated.
To the digital native & immigrants alike, network means web 2.0 & all its variants. Social networking means MSN chats, facebook, Myspace, secondlife. Collaborative learning means blog, forum, wikis, skype, bookmarking & MMORPG ? Digital devices mediated.
At a personal learning level, I’ve never failed to be amazed by the creativity people continue to demonstrate through NDM. I enjoy the convenience & flexibility facilitated by NDM. My problem with ‘jumping in the waters’ is 2 folds – quality & search costs
• I don’t even have enough time to learn from the gurus and masters in the field, where do I have the time to participate? • When I am a novice in the subject matters, how do I know whether the network is good enough?
I already mentioned what social network means to me. Also, I am not comfortable with the personal identity issue on the network – “whom to trust, who is as represented, who is anonymous, who exists over time & in real space”. (Gardner, 2007)
I agreed teaching must be relevant to the learners (refer to all these learning theories). Teaching must also be related to real world and the digital world is 1 part of it, at least still so for the time being. At the same time, we need to preach other life skills too.
Web 2.0 encourages and provides interactive (Voicethread, iSketch, etc.), interconnectivity (facebook, Myspace, etc.) and collaborative (wikis, blogs, etc.) to internet users. They construct and exchange knowledge among each other via Web 2.0 applications by sharing and construct their information or knowledge.
ReplyDeletestella
Users can construct their knowledge on the basic information or knowledge uploaded by other users. Web 2.0 encourages users to create and publish their own professional knowledge or skills. These learning activities made users to be double identities – students and teachers / learners and coaches.
Teachers
ReplyDeleteTeachers become "Networked Teachers" can use different materials (traditional textbooks, wikis, blogs, voicethread, digital photo sharing, etc.) to sitmulate students learning and let them collaborate to do projects. Teachers should know how to use them to build up curriculum or integrate them as a series of teaching tools to facilitate their teaching and student's learning.
Users (Teachers and students) build, interact and construct their knowledge via these tools.
If the identities of networked teacher and netwoked student can be interexchanged, then what is the duty of a "real" teacher ( teaching in the classroom or lab). The "real" teacher maintains the network learning curriculum, learning synthesizer and connected learning incubator.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I am concerned, Network means a lot to me. It helps:
ReplyDeleteContact with friends and family members.(Yahoo Messenger,Email)
Share my life.(upload my photos, videos and words in Facebook and Blogs)
Promote my learning.(Youtube, MSN Video, other people's blog, Facebook group...)
Facilitate my study. (Google doc for group discussion, RISAL for recording the resources )
Improve my teaching in future. So many useful tools and resources for teaching can be found on NET.
To be continued...
I run into Howard Gardner’s article on Did the New Digital Media change anything? He said that the human system evolves slowly & fundamental human nature (e.g. cognition, emotions, characters etc) does not change as fast as culture. But he also predicted that these new digital media (NDM) in the long term (waiting for a tipping point) would affect human life qualitatively particularly how we experience the world.
ReplyDeleteWhat does network mean to me?
‘Digital divide’ is the first word not in sense of access gap but generation gap. A large portion of my school & work life is ‘pre-digital’. The word ‘network’ largely relates to people – family, friends, colleagues, business partners & many others. ‘Social networking’ means coffee breaks, drinks at bars, lunches & dinners talks, sports events at tennis court; golf courses, boating etc. ‘Collaborative learning’ means face to face meetings, brainstorming workshops, team building exercises & so on & so forth. People mediated.
To the digital native & immigrants alike, network means web 2.0 & all its variants. Social networking means MSN chats, facebook, Myspace, secondlife. Collaborative learning means blog, forum, wikis, skype, bookmarking & MMORPG ? Digital devices mediated.
At a personal learning level, I’ve never failed to be amazed by the creativity people continue to demonstrate through NDM. I enjoy the convenience & flexibility facilitated by NDM. My problem with ‘jumping in the waters’ is 2 folds – quality & search costs
• I don’t even have enough time to learn from the gurus and masters in the field, where do I have the time to participate?
• When I am a novice in the subject matters, how do I know whether the network is good enough?
I already mentioned what social network means to me. Also, I am not comfortable with the personal identity issue on the network – “whom to trust, who is as represented, who is anonymous, who exists over time & in real space”. (Gardner, 2007)
I agreed teaching must be relevant to the learners (refer to all these learning theories). Teaching must also be related to real world and the digital world is 1 part of it, at least still so for the time being. At the same time, we need to preach other life skills too.