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As part of my Open University H800 course I’ve just read Do Smart Devices Make Smart Learners? and feel like I’m missing the point. To me it was more like a hardware review you’d find in a PC magazine than an article about learning. Perhaps the title is misleading? Or perhaps it’s just me (in
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Whilst researching the above question for my H800 course I found the following interesting blog post from the Educational Paradigms blog: Teaching Is Not About Knowing (Anymore) I think this quote summarises the post very well: It’s not about knowing. It’s about pointing the way and providing the tools (for students to create, learn, succeed).
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The following quotes come from an article by Hara and Kling (1999): ‘Students’ frustrations with a web-based distance education course’. I have picked out the sections that seemed most interesting to me. The literature about distance education is dominated by enthusiastic studies and accounts. Distance education advocates argue that the increasing number of online courses
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A Vision of Students Today – a video by Mike Wesch. Overall impression and feelings about the student life it portrays Interesting quotes – particularly when we consider the dates on them. Walls need decorating. Students seem miserable (I guess that’s intended?). Good example of using GoogleDocs for a collaborative document. I complete 49% of
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Right. After a false start with blogging in February, here’s my second attempt. Block 3 of my Technology-enhanced learning course at the OU started last week, so I’m determined to use blogging as a way of recording and reflecting on my studies. And hopefully it’ll provide extra motivation to keep on top of things. I
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Whilst reading this article from the Times Higher Education website, I came across the following: “Web 2.0 has become a warm and dark space for people with too much time and too few ideas. They are shielded through the flawed assumption that if more “people” (and as a visitor to Second Life, I use this