Education
Blog Posting #10 Burner
What is learning? Learning is being exposed to new information, formulas and theories. Your developmental stage would indicate how abstract the new concepts can be.
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Blog Posting for Situation cognition
Learning is making sense of the situation around you and using information you have and are receiving.
The use of social software in adult education
Deciding on a topic was indeed very difficult. As I searched for articles, I ended up with 20! I am now in the process of weeding out the ones I will not be using and refining my topic.
I plan to include a brief overview or history of the various social software that has been used in educating adults up to this point. This will be the history section. I will then narrow my focus to the newest trend of using microblogging. There have been several case studies that will be included and I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages that were found.
Microblogging supports the social aspect of learning, but does it also cause a distraction?
Borau, K., Ullrich, C., Feng, J. & Shen, R. (2009). Microblogging for Language Learning: Using Twitter to Train Communicative and Cultural Competence. LNCS, 5686, 78-87
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I was able to listen to the presentation of “Classroom in the Cloud” with John Kulgin. He is referring to the web based programs that allow easy access to all students boosting their abilities in the classroom. Kuglin said “Student achievement is the bottom line.” These web based programs create an environment of achievement for each of the students, allowing teachers and students to interact in ways that the traditional programs do not allow. Some of the different web based programs he presented were Buzzword a word processor, Sliderocket a presentation program, Square space webpage designs, Prezi an revolutionary presentation program, and Google voice. Some of the programs were free others have cost involved, usually with a discounted education price. This knew wave of computing brings huge quantities of processing power and storage capacity within easy access of the classroom.Click here to read more »
Posting for Foundations debates and controversies
In reading about video games in education and libraries I found few against and many for using the virtual world of video games to promote education. I have always been a supporter of technology in education and have always seen the benefits of games that promote education. I just think there are many games out there that are pointless and possibly bring violence in to our society. In 2001 U.S.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Diana Maughan on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 6:35pm
