Re: Digital support for teaching as a design science

shukie, April 20, 2012

Some interesting points made and the focus on the teacher remains a significant one. I liked the possibilities offered by collaborative spaces and shared developments. I was drawn to HowardJ's comments that refelect the changing in the fundamental patterns of how people learn that will perhaps replace the very fixed notions of teachers and studnets themselves. It is not mereley the pedagogoies that are not maximiing the affordances of the technologies, but the structures that delineate teachers FROM students. Shared spaces and collaborative design can be equally well done through the involvement of a range of individuals and groups and the need for an established teacher becomes diminished. The Freirean concept of teacher-student being a shifting intercahnge is possoble, and now more than ever necessary. I don't think this reduces the needs for discussion on pedagogical innovation, it just means that it is open to everyone not jsut a select group of professional 'educators.'
Our students have just completed projects where they selected something they wanted to share, to teach, and then selected technologies to do that with - they are not on a technology course - and the range of materials was fascinating, what they chose refelected largely how they seem themselves, and as HowardJ specifies, who they 'want to become'. Social media was popular, but for mature stuidenst the use of websites gave them opportunity to design something they had some fear of and wanted to conquer - become producers instead of always consumers. Progress seems to indicate that involvement is a nnecessary part of lkearning and as such the old distinction between teacher-student seems to be certain to dissolve, or at least radically transform.
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