Reading the articles of this week, we meet with a diversity of learners such as undergraduate students, 8-18 M generation, girls, boys, hispanics, engineering majors, on-campus residents; and all in common trying to learn something through tehcnology. But may this technology be a barrier to learning? Or do they suffer 'a sea-change into something rich and strange'?
2007 ECAR research study states that students see the profileration of technology as a barrier to learning because of the emerging complex learning environment. And they see the expedience in instructors! It's noted that: when instructors use effective educational practices, students have a better academic experience. And also the instructors can effect the connectedness of the students with the course and making use/underuse/overuse of IT.
Reading the outcomes of the Generation M report, I was very surprised when I learned that there had been no change from 1999 to 2005 in the total amount of time kids spend with media(6:20); but they had increased the amount of time they spend using more than one media at a time (from 7:29 to 8:33). And this means more than 1/3 of their lives. So as Chris Dede noted in the introduction part of the ECAR study 'our ways of thinking and knowing, teaching and learning are undergoing a sea change; we are shaped by media actively and tacitly; and we should try to understand the richness, to welcome the strangeness and to fuse some synthesis'.
2 comments:
This is a key pt, Evren, "profileration of technology as a barrier to learning because of the emerging complex learning environment."
It is no longer just one technology to be concerned with but many. So I have tried to develop frameworks for that issue. Frameworks and models can help people better understand what is possible. Right? Looking at all the choices is overwhelming at times. And what will the coming decade bring?
I find it very interesting that the use of kinds of technology has increased and not the use of one type. This is just to show how people are keeping up with the changing times without acutally using the all the gadgets effectively. I think that none of the media has been explored to its actual capacity. We keep jumping from one new media to the next, fascinated by the 'newness' but never really making full use of any of it.
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