about 8 months ago - 1 comment
My final project is a powerpoint presentation entitled “Connectivism: Connecting & Sharing Meanings – Navigating Through Cultural & Social Layers.” My original idea was to sync with audio file and make it more like a real presentation. In the process of creating a podcast, I stumbled into many problems. So the final product is unfortunately [...]
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After exploring the concept of Connectivism and the role of emerging technologies in this course, media literacy, for me, would be the important keywords for the 21st century education. As Lipton states (2008), “[a]ny form of communication that carries and conveys meaning can be considered a medium of communication.” Although the emerging technology always dominates [...]
about 9 months ago - No comments
I took an online course on Instructional Design for Adult Education earlier this year. The cornerstone of any instructional design models is the construction of learning objectives. Everything else, such as learning support, the use of technologies, and teaching and learning resources are hinged on the clearly set-out learning objectives. Without well-defined learning objectives, you [...]
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Belatedly, I listened to the recorded session given by Steve Wheller at the PLE Conference. Wheller conceptualizes the ways in which the Internet environment with rich Web 2.0 resources facilitate self-organizing learning environments for the learners by themselves. His intention of the conceptualization is obviously to influence the established institutional learning and provide some alternative [...]
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My Statement on Connectivism: Connectivism [1] challenges the contemporary education system and its orientation by contrasting it with emerging ways of knowing, interacting, collaborating producing, mixing or any other significant mode of expression afforded by emerging technologies of the new century. Downes and Siemens initiated new discourse on learning that is relevant and required for [...]
about 10 months ago - No comments
I signed up on an online course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. This is the first week of the course, but people are already actively tackling with the definition of connectivism. For myself, I just don’t want to come across so critical, yet as a student of social sciences for many years, I want to [...]