Comments on: Learning 2.0 http://e4innovation.com/?p=251 E-learning innovation: research, evaluation, practice and policy Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Gráinne http://e4innovation.com/?p=251#comment-4310 Gráinne Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:37:00 +0000 http://e4innovation.com/?p=251#comment-4310 Hi Phil thanks for your comments - yes i totally agree - exciting and scary. I worry sometimes that the rhetoric of web 2.0 in learning can give the indication that its all down to the learners, that they require no support. I disagree. Whilst some students will embrace these new technologies and all their associated affordances with ease, others will need some sort of guidance, support, scaffolding. This might be through some changes role for teachers/facilitators, through peer support or through some embedding functionality in the embedded environment. But I still think learners need guidance, always have done always will do. Would love to talk more specifically about what we are doing in cloudworks and how it can link into your work. Grainne Hi Phil thanks for your comments - yes i totally agree - exciting and scary. I worry sometimes that the rhetoric of web 2.0 in learning can give the indication that its all down to the learners, that they require no support. I disagree. Whilst some students will embrace these new technologies and all their associated affordances with ease, others will need some sort of guidance, support, scaffolding. This might be through some changes role for teachers/facilitators, through peer support or through some embedding functionality in the embedded environment. But I still think learners need guidance, always have done always will do.
Would love to talk more specifically about what we are doing in cloudworks and how it can link into your work.
Grainne

]]> By: Phil Greaney http://e4innovation.com/?p=251#comment-4309 Phil Greaney Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:09:15 +0000 http://e4innovation.com/?p=251#comment-4309 Thanks Gráinne, really useful set of issues and links. We've been tackling this very issue from a tutor perspective in the SNPL project - I see you mention teachers in your outline above. My feeling is that whenever I get into a conversation about the issues surrounding Web 2.0 and education, there is a sense that it won't just go away (so we better deal with it, as best we can); and that the enormous shift in the teaching dynamic illustrated by such things as user-generated content is dizzyingly powerful - and sometimes scary, too. I'm keeping an eye on Cloudworks, since I see that it addresses some of the issues we've tried to grapple with in establishing and sustaining a social network. Interesting times... Bye for now Phil Thanks Gráinne, really useful set of issues and links.

We’ve been tackling this very issue from a tutor perspective in the SNPL project - I see you mention teachers in your outline above. My feeling is that whenever I get into a conversation about the issues surrounding Web 2.0 and education, there is a sense that it won’t just go away (so we better deal with it, as best we can); and that the enormous shift in the teaching dynamic illustrated by such things as user-generated content is dizzyingly powerful - and sometimes scary, too.

I’m keeping an eye on Cloudworks, since I see that it addresses some of the issues we’ve tried to grapple with in establishing and sustaining a social network. Interesting times…

Bye for now

Phil

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