How's this for a mouthful..."Without appropriate pedagogy, use of high capacity communication services cannot provide significant improvements in learning outcomes. In general, it is the pedagogy that provides for learning, not the technology or the software alone.” James Carr, PhD., the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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One of the problems (or advantage?) of a group blog is that no one knows who posted an entry unless you sign your name. But I think this may be Gill? is that right Gill?
Interesting quote. Do others agree with it?
Yes, I think that pedagogy is paramount. Technology can provide one mechanism to facilitate the learning process.
Anita Haniford
An interesting point is "Which came first?".
The new technologies are emerging and people are using them and then educators are thinking "How can we use these for learning?"
But it's already being used informally for that - and we educators are doing catch up.
For instance, consider the use of Blogs, wikis, YouTube, mobiles. They were out there way before being used in education and people were learning from their use.
I think pedagogy is important but perhaps with the new technologies, it's when we put our brains into gear to work out how to maximise the learning drawing on what we know about how people learn - and being prepared to be surprised when they do something different!!
Ann Davenport
Technology is often the cause of many communication issues - however i tend to believe that its benefits far outweigh its downsides. I guess two of the most frustrating issues I have to deal with are the following;
1. the constant blocking of websites and technologies for students by our ICT dept.
2. the wide ranging connection speeds or sometimes lack thereof from our students.
I have been trying to facilitate blogs for students since 2005 and am constantly amazed at how hard it is to get them to participate in this more than once. Seems that class work will never be more exciting than myspace or facebook!
OK Greg - apart from the fact they may be blocked, if that's what students want why not have students blog in Facebook? Why not create a Facebook site for the class?
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