The digital age is amazing… technology is providing us new and amazing ways to be connected & distracted. Phones, email, wiki, twitter, facebook. We are even doing all this in classrooms, but not always effectively. And sometimes these same things that allow us to learn are keeping us from learning when we don’t pay attention in class in order to be connected to our other Social Networks. It wasn’t until I was sitting in class this quarter that I truly understood what it meant to be wired into a class AND to the rest of the world. The glitches and lag in instruction was not as bothersome when the instructor was sitting at the same table. I still was engaged with the learning.
Is it the glitches that are frustrating me, or is it the human resources gas tank I operate from that is not getting appropriately filled? This type of learning is the future and very quickly becoming the present. This type of learning requires some serious planning and forethought. It also ties into last week’s topic of teaching to people the way they learn and not the way the instructor was taught. The tricky part is that not everyone in the classroom learns the same way… how do you keep all parties present and actively engaged?
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