tisdag 23 juni 2009
Selling out technology?
Well well, just finished the first three forum-assignments, lots of interesting stuff, and it makes you think, net cultures, digital competence, media literacy, those kinds of things. Still, I'm always bothered by the startup-fluff that makes its way into pedagogy discussions. Someone invents a new tool and all of the sudden the world of teaching is supposed to change. I wonder how aware people are that they are buying into a frame of thought that is actually a lot like sales-talk for new technologies.
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Hi there, now my blog is also launched. I'm the mad hatter... or perhaps the anxious rabbit, it depends. Anyway, it was fun to get started with the blog thing. Now, what's the deal? I'm always keen at starting new things, but to keep them going, that's the real deal.
SvaraRaderaJust had to comment on entries in English :)!
SvaraRaderaPerhaps one of the things that is most difficult about writing for a blog is the feeling of exposure, that suddenly my opinions have to be publicly aired to the world. Now according to Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University, who has written a number of papers on blogging for learning, blogging can both be felt to be good at motivating students since they have to think just a bit more carefully before they write for a public than they would for just their tutor. But it is also rather scary to realize that you are writing for a wider audience. Check out this slideshow: http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/getting-the-bloggers-to-write-presentation
The sales-pitch analogy is an apt one, I think Jonas. If we look at the changes in curriculum, grading systems, teaching methods and so on it seems like as soon as someone launches a new idea we immediately have to throw out all the old stuff in order to take up the new. All new is good, all old is bad... Since the guineapigs are our children, I'm not sure this is the best, most thought-through idea :/ I don't want my daughter to be experimented on just because a scientist has a new pet theory s/he wants to try out. And it doesn't matter if it's the old lecture-hall pedagogy or ICT-based, interactive, webified learning - not everything that's new is better than the old...
SvaraRadera