After the completion of week 1, setting up my blog and wiki and I am feeling a little more secure. Apart from learning that I have a fairly balance learning style, I have discovered that i am a little lacking in the logical and musical intelligence areas- this doesn't surprise me in the least!
Although I already knew that the current generation has a love affair with technology I was unaware of how the divide between digital natives and digital immigrants might affect the learning abilities of today's students. It has made me realise the potential of this course on my teaching practises and that I must embrace technology and incorporate it into my lesson plans to be able to engage my students (especially with teenagers!)
The different types of learning theory have helped me understand the processes of learning. The You-Tube clip on connectivism was extremely helpful to me and helped me make the connections between a lot of the requirements in this course. It helped me to understand why we are creating blogs, wikis and discussion forums and why these are useful tools for the classrooms full of digital natives. I do feel that it is also important to know what to do with this information, how to digest it and apply that knowledge to everyday situations- which is what I see my role as in all of this!
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