Has learning changed? Pls tell us what you think?

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Permalink Reply by Nellie Makarova-Cross on April 27, 2010 at 6:25pm

Hi, Adam.It sounds interesting. I will try to follow your link.

NMC

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Colt on May 14, 2010 at 1:40am

Web 2.0 and Technology has changed the way Learning is the imparted and imbibed. And Social Media has added the feature of sharing and interoperability in the domain of education. I agree with what one of my colleagues said ' Mobile learning is certainly starting to change the way we students learn, no longer bound by the classroom walls and the end of day bell'. The Learning on the go Feature has made Learning more flexible.

The Internet - Web 2.0 is revolutionizing Education!! The fact that "everything" can be accessed and modified round the clock has led to a huge transformation in learning.

Millions of young students are thronging social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook and Social Media can thus influence casual learning in students who are already masters in the medium.

http://mashable.com/2009/04/16/social-media-college/ is worth a watch!

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Colt on May 16, 2010 at 11:28pm

Found one more cool resource, in fact two for creating and sharing Flash cards.

They are www.mobl21.com and http://cramberry.net/?home=1

Mobl21 promises a lot more as you can not only create flash cards and quizzes but also publish them for your audience to have a look.

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by ADJADJI Epiphane on May 20, 2010 at 6:12am

Hello Jeremy
I am Epiphane from Benin, in West Africa. I am an EFL teacher and would like to learn more on Web2.0 and education. Certainly you'll point to me Future of Education cause there have been some series on this topic but you know what is Africa. The internet connectivity is very slow and it's very dificult to download recordings.
Have you got better ideas as to how to learn more on this isssue offline?

I'd loved the link to mobl21. Although Benin has not yet reached that level of interating ICT into the classroom and a great number of teachers lacking the skill for educative technologies uses, I happen to be an isolated case to be interested in tthe 21st skill requirements for our next generation of learners and teachers as well.

Thanks for helping me build my knowledge background. Waiting for some help from you, I'll take delight reading your post and searching the internet for pieces of knowledge.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Epiphane ADJADJI
Benin; West Africa

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Colt on July 7, 2010 at 11:36pm

Hi

Sorry I was not active for a month, Can you share your email address, can send some information.

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Permalink Reply by sharon on May 31, 2010 at 3:29am

Yes, I believe learning has changed. The way we teach has changed, so learning must change also. By incorporating ICT into teaching, the way students are learning today has differed from learning in the 19th century.
I will leave you with a famous quote.
Ready or not...
The world is different
Kids are different...
Learning is different...
And teaching must be different, too. (ISTE, 2000, pp. 1-2)

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Permalink Reply by Shamini Dias on June 7, 2010 at 2:11pm

I think learning per se has not changed - we still need to engage cognition and affect, we still need to help students find an intrinsic motivation to learn. But what has radically changed (or SHOULD change) are the contents of education, and how we teach and learn. If you think about it, we live in a highly mediated, highly inter-connected context. So the old transmission model of teaching basic knowledge needs to give way to teaching and learning how to ask questions, find information, connect and shape and design our understanding and knowledge, interpret multiple versions of the same event etc. And of course this means the structures of our learning spaces must change as well - maybe the classroom of 25 students all working on the same thing, or paying attention to the same thing does not suit how we must learn.

I've seen changes in the responses of my students. one of them said to me she feels locked up and deprived of her senses in a classroom because she is so used to having information access in multiple ways all the time- chat, internet, blogs, phone. In the classroom she feels almost 'deaf and blind'. She comes alive with project work, when we improvise drama, and learns more by working part-time with a non-profit organization.

But I am also mindful that as learning changes so radically for many, the world is now being divided in terms of those who have and do not have access to technology, specifically the web. This technological divide can cause an intellectual and therefore add to the economic divide that causes this lack of access in the first place.

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Permalink Reply by ADJADJI Epiphane on July 8, 2010 at 2:49am

Hi Jeremy
Welcome back. here is my email: adjiphane07@yahoo.fr. I look forward to reading from you
Epiphane
Benin

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Permalink Reply by Deborah J. Boyd on September 4, 2010 at 4:29pm

YES!!! Technology and the Internet have sped up the pace of change. 100 years ago we were perfectly happy to teach facts as if they were written in stone. Now the way I see it we have the basic laws of nature and that is it for solid facts. Many things we thought were true are now under revision. So now what we need to do is switch to teaching process.We need to teach all the children how to tell the difference between good objective and balanced information on the Internet and unsubstantiated opinion. In today's world everyone is a reporter. Have cell phone with camera will publish!!!
Come join me in Peace by 2027. Remember, killing people is not the path to peace; education is.
Love & Peace, Deborah

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Permalink Reply by Shamini Dias on September 4, 2010 at 7:57pm

I agree with you Deborah. The most critical skill today is the ability to sort through information (and noise) and come to a clear understanding. But more important even is the ability to balance multiple perspectives without condemning differences to one's own perspective as wrong. And yet, in public education today, we are not developing/training teachers to have such mindsets, nor training or helping them learn how to develop such mindsets in children. I think this aspect of education is so deeply needed and it worries me how little attention is given to this.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah J. Boyd on September 5, 2010 at 2:45pm

Yes, it is still disturbing to hear from some people that they feel discriminated against by some teachers. I got both my degrees in online education and I heard over and over how people of color felt more accepted in online classes because people can not tell they are not "white". I know also that many of the students I had in class who were not from America said that they needed extra time to respond to the discussion questions because of the language differences. I helped many people to learn to write in a more typical "American" way in an effort to have their opinions held in higher esteem. It is the same with special needs people. If we put in a little extra effort we can understand them and be patient with some of their unusual tendencies. I feel the special needs people are here to teach us something.

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