Emerging Technologies
I recently attended Elliott Masie's Extreme Learning Lab where he demonstrated how a number of emerging technologies are being used for learning. These technologies included videocasting, podcasting, gaming, blogging, and social networking sites. What are the affordances of these technologies? Does research show them to be effective? If research has yet to be conducted regarding their impact, should they be used?
The learning professionals in the group appreciated Elliott's enthusiasm for the affordances of these technologies but quickly began listing the barriers to their use: security concerns, cost, and the organizational changes (attitudes) they would necessitate. What other barriers exist?
posted by Frankie @ 5:50 PM
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To deternine how effective learning technologues are, first thing to consider is how learning technologies are designed to create learning environment? - under the worldview of "knowledge is not a commodity but socially created. Overall all learning technologies ( videocasting, podcasting, gaming, blogging, social networking)create social learning environment, not transmit knowledge. "I never teach anything to my students, I only create the environment they can learn" Albert Einstein.
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