Hi All, I have been watching this discussion with a certain amount of facscination. Having completed some research into the impact of technology in education it is interesting to see the same rhetoric - provide the technology and they will come. Students know what to do with it. Not so according to the latest research in elearning and technology in education. Text on screen, moving objects or simulations are no more interactive than TV, DVD or video. What makes any learning experience is the teacher and the way the learning tools are embedded into the curriculum. Only when this happens will students engage with the learning and participate at a level that can be described as deep learning. By all means provide the technology, but this is only half of the equation. We also neeed to think in terms of quality here. :) BC
Convenor for the Transforming Information and Learning Conference http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/TILC Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia Ph: (08) 9370 6072 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tednellen Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 4:50 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: RE: [DDN] personal vis social and the academic i have come to the belief that this new iteration in technology is way different from previous technologies. for one thing and most importantly, this technology is interactive. the former technologies were one way: book, lecture, television, radio.. now the internet is interactive. each user is both a consumer and producer. with this new technology all participants have 24/7 access, unlike the former technologies that required physical presence. in this new environment, all are responsible for their own producing as we see it on the web for instance or in a blog...no longer is there one purveyor of all knowledge be it the teacher or the text book. now the learner interacts with the learning environment and no sputnick or "new math" or NCLB can stop this juggernaut. as more and more students and learners understand and take advantage. in the end the reactionaries cant kill it, they can and have slowed it down, but they cant kill it. please remember too the internet was created to withstand nuclear war. since it of the public and for the public and the public has it, the internet and the hopes and dreams it holds cant be supressed. ted _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
