I’ve posted a tweet linking to a page on Twitter as a learning tool, here’s the link here as well: http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/twitter-as-personal-learning-and-work.html
I wonder about the most accurate category for Web 2.o applications such as Twitter. My questions come from my experience in a course on Second Life I’m also taking. Many educational institutions appear to view SL as simply one of a range of pedagogical tools one can apply in a “classical” classroom setting. In other words, nothing has changed about the context or environment in which learning takes place: we simply have new (maybe better) tools.
Sure, in one sense SL and Twitter can be used as a tool. But behind that use lurks the larger issue of the ways in which maybe they are changing the learning environment itself.
truemmer said
Hi grant I share the same opinion about the tools, the use and the environments of classic and new learning settings.
But I also think a change in the uses of the techonology will come slowly but permanent. We can lean back and wait.
I’d like to say thanks for the groupwork and I published a photo of you, as a part of the seminar in a real “modern classic” style…
see you and take care..
ahoi ina
http://artoflearning.edublogs.org/2009/02/02/i-like-to-say-thanx/