Have just finished this online article entitled Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age recounting a lecturers journey of learn - unlearn - relearn - as she challenged some theories of learning within her own teaching. I found the article quite thought provoking and paralleled some of the ideas around about the value that collaborative technologies can change and improve learning (eg blogging - peer review). Well worth a read. What are your thoughts? Agree or disagree with anything? And of course the comments are worth a read too......
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Collaborative Learning for the Digital
would love the free iPods. Crowdsourcing seems an effective way to develop uses for different technologies. The grading debate/issues were interesting...great for tertiary/secondary...but maybe not for 5 year olds...in saying that, if it starts in a New Entrant classroom...by the time they are in Year 3 or 4 it could be a possiblity. But for this to happen, all students would need access to their own 'tool' in all learning, not shared between 5 students and who carries this cost? Great concept but not so practical.
ReplyDeleteAnother thought provoking article thanks Dave.
ReplyDelete'Learn, unlearn and relearn' to me it relates to the Teaching as inquiry action research cycle re NZ curriculum.
Within our profession we do test and evaluate our work in according to the children needs in relation to the curriculum and nat standards but what about also being willing and able to critiquing our practices to with what is happening in the business sector and our children's worlds too? I would like an iPad or a computer, and reliable too, for most of my class accessible throughout the day because the benefits can be great but so is the expense to the school.
At the ITL conference last holidays I really enjoyed James Nottingham 'Challenging Learning'. Challenge children to be good thinkers because they need to be able to learn, unlearn and relearn effectively and confidently if they are going to effectively participate in their future jobs. Even with the little access we do get to having technology within our classrooms we can still challenge children to think and collaborate well without technology always in the classroom. Children are often accessing technology at home anyway.
I agree, the article is very relevant to our practice. Thanks for sharing :)