Re: Digital support for teaching as a design science

shukie, April 20, 2012

That mirrors experiences I have had with students, where online peer evaluation and collaborative projects did take place - when I have tried similar in the calssroom the tendency is to talk about the weekend, or TV or something other - not through a tendency to distraction, but I suspect through a fear of being critical in a one to one space.
The asynchronous discussion spaces we have are on a VLE, but they are without doubt the best places to go to se the thoughts o students expanded and with illustarted examples (links, photographs and other digital artefacts) taht wouldn't (couldn't) happen in a session.

Given taht much of this is down to personal experiences and preferences, the challenge seems to be around the ways in which different approaches can be facilitated without excluding sections of the learning community. Many people don't use social media for instance, so by linking discussion through social media they become excluded.
I think one thing that seems to be significant too is the need for diffrent forms of creativity, the need for an online presence to match the presence that characterises face to face learning. Creating videos, images, podcasts and spaces that appeal is a set of learned skills that will need encouraging - all in all, its the transformation that seems so massive! Ideas are exciting, and the best teaching sitautions carry with them a sense of shared exploration and of excitement, a tangible sense of a journey. Making that happen online is clearly possible, it attracts such traffic and explosions of 'trending' topicality. what do we all have to teach each other to ensure that can identify this excitement as well as offering accountability and vision? The collaborative spaces presented offer some solution, though I can't help thinking that it is hard to fix any such space, and that they will arrive, prosper and subsequently dissolve organically.
Not wanting that to sound pessimistic, but it seems to be a character of the online space that 'here today, gone tomorrow' is part of a universal psyche - at least virtually.

Is the first chapter of the new book available on Change11 somewhere by the way? I'd like to read it [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]