This is a short script. I thought it was supposed to be a 30 second summary of Dr. Wagner's presentation that we would narrate into a PODCAST?
"I like Dr. Wagner's presentation. She seemed to have a teaching educational background with a private sector mentality. She is well informed and speculative about both, educational trends and how connectivism along with Web 2.0 are changing or shaping the way we learn. She also seemed concern about how to better utilize the tools of right now than focusing on the future, or in other words, we should embrace what is available now and prepare for the future.
Her website is full of useful insightful blogs about education and technology. I really enjoyed her presentation and look forward to reading her blogs."
Some pondering questions....
How do we prepare students for future technologies?
I would say by having students be more active with today's technologies.
How do we prepare ourselves?
Through reading, peers, playing with new tools that come to light.
How do we decide to stay with sustainable technology?
I really don't know... right now at least.
How is everything that is free (open source) going to help us implement it in educational training?
By using it, retaining what's good and letting go of the ones that have little to offer or that are too far ahead of their time.
What keeps me up at night?
How am I going to be of help to make sure everyone regardless of their location, age (kids, adults, seniors, people with disabilities), social economic status get their hands on these technologies and get better education and become part of the educational caravan? How?
Showing posts with label social education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social education. Show all posts
Mar 12, 2009
Mar 6, 2009
Education and the Internet - The Things to Come
Dr. Ellen Wagner presented her knowledge to class today. Opposed to Dr. Bonk last week, Dr. Wagner main concern is how we make the most out of what we have (Web 2.0 tools). Her way of taking on the class was less business-like and more of a instructional role by asking the class questions and concerns about the way we see and understand 1) web 2.0 and 2) present and future roles. Among the many subjects we discussed the following are the ones that grabbed my attention the most.
Web 2.0 Green Tech?
There was some discussion with the question about whether Web 2.0 was a green technology. In reality Web 2.0 was not meant or designed to be a green technology. For example, solar panels were designed as a green technology for energy conservation. They were and still are designed for that purpose. Whereas Web 2.0 is more of a continuous implementation of the ever changing online Internet experience. In fact this technology, the Internet, has created/contributed more waste, or e-waste.
Web 2.0 may reduce the number of prints-- reducing the number of trees needed to make paper, but it increases energy consumption and e-waste. Research by Harvard school shows that it takes as much energy to do a search in Google as it takes to boil a cup of water. Imagine how many times you do a search in one day, how many people? Google came out with a response on this subject. There are viable venues to combat such immense energy consumption and some seem very far in the future, but all we can hope is that at some point "Web x.0" becomes "eWeb."
Business to Education dilemma
One of the reasons I decided to get my Master in Instructional Technology was my desire to teach and to help: 1) kids/adults without the necessary tools (computer, Internet, phone, etc.) whether in poor cities in the US or anywhere in the world. 2) help people like who have that desire to improve and help reduce the gap between the have and the have nots. And this is where I come to the dilemma. How will my transition from the business/corporate world shape me as an instructor to the public sector? Dr. Wagner talked about her experience and how hard it is to push technology that could be use in education but fails to make money. Web 3.0 simulation? I don't see itDr. Warner asked the class what we thought about
Web 3.0 what will it look like?
Web 4.0? There were a interesting ideas, but I started thinking about how our society is all about "us", personality, what many may coin as "Narcissist". And we are, in general. I think Web 3.0 will be based on this modern social trait, we want to be different, customization. Thus, giving birth to cognitive search intelligence from a platform stance. We should be seeing a change in browsers and software and uniform cross-platforms compatibility.
Free Puppy vs Free Beer
This example was probably the best way to describe what I have always thought about all these "free" tools available to educators right now. My questions has always been when are they going to start charging people to use these tools? why are they free? and how much more improvement is there once fees start to roll in? Web tools like SlideShare, VoiceThread, etc ., are cool, but what exactly is their business direction? How will they survive and make sure they stay in business so that educator don't have to run from free services to free services?
Web 2.0 Green Tech?
There was some discussion with the question about whether Web 2.0 was a green technology. In reality Web 2.0 was not meant or designed to be a green technology. For example, solar panels were designed as a green technology for energy conservation. They were and still are designed for that purpose. Whereas Web 2.0 is more of a continuous implementation of the ever changing online Internet experience. In fact this technology, the Internet, has created/contributed more waste, or e-waste.
Web 2.0 may reduce the number of prints-- reducing the number of trees needed to make paper, but it increases energy consumption and e-waste. Research by Harvard school shows that it takes as much energy to do a search in Google as it takes to boil a cup of water. Imagine how many times you do a search in one day, how many people? Google came out with a response on this subject. There are viable venues to combat such immense energy consumption and some seem very far in the future, but all we can hope is that at some point "Web x.0" becomes "eWeb."
Business to Education dilemma
One of the reasons I decided to get my Master in Instructional Technology was my desire to teach and to help: 1) kids/adults without the necessary tools (computer, Internet, phone, etc.) whether in poor cities in the US or anywhere in the world. 2) help people like who have that desire to improve and help reduce the gap between the have and the have nots. And this is where I come to the dilemma. How will my transition from the business/corporate world shape me as an instructor to the public sector? Dr. Wagner talked about her experience and how hard it is to push technology that could be use in education but fails to make money. Web 3.0 simulation? I don't see itDr. Warner asked the class what we thought about
Web 3.0 what will it look like?
Web 4.0? There were a interesting ideas, but I started thinking about how our society is all about "us", personality, what many may coin as "Narcissist". And we are, in general. I think Web 3.0 will be based on this modern social trait, we want to be different, customization. Thus, giving birth to cognitive search intelligence from a platform stance. We should be seeing a change in browsers and software and uniform cross-platforms compatibility.
Free Puppy vs Free Beer
This example was probably the best way to describe what I have always thought about all these "free" tools available to educators right now. My questions has always been when are they going to start charging people to use these tools? why are they free? and how much more improvement is there once fees start to roll in? Web tools like SlideShare, VoiceThread, etc ., are cool, but what exactly is their business direction? How will they survive and make sure they stay in business so that educator don't have to run from free services to free services?
Mar 1, 2009
One for all and all for one: the world according to Dr. Bonk.
Class reflection; Feb-26-09
Our main activity was watching an online (live feed) presentation of Dr. Bunk on his studies and views of the current technology of social learning though Web 2.0. Some of his points were Media Sharing and common interaction among peers in which by sharing sources (on-line) WE ALL LEARN.
One of his main attention grabber phrase was his self made acronym W-E-A-L-L-L-E-A-R-N.
His presentation went on how things have changed from our grandparents/parents way of learning to ours and how technology is enabling access to speak, indulge and show the world our knowledge, our resources to all those with access.
Dr. Bonk's introduction to his "The World is Flat" presentation placed me back in my Latin American studies in undergraduate school. How significant changes over a short period of time can re-route the course of history. Defying moments driving by people seeking power and/or overthrowing power can resolve the enigma of how close, yet how far we are from understanding and learning from each other. Today in education and Web 2.0, our self determination of seeking for wisdom and the reforming impact on the many projects for OpenSourcessness vying for a better, more constructed way of information knowledge base, will open our participation and anticipation of the way we will learn in the future, or at least what we envision.
There were three points that grabbed my attention and what Dr. Bonk calls the "The Triple Learning Technology."
Pipes: the ability of tools and how it is set up.
Pages: What's out there? The availability of free educational content and resources, (OER) OPEN EDUCATIONAL SOURCES.
Participatory Learning Culture: A cultural move towards an open access and collaboration and global sharing.
One last note I would like to mention is the accessibility of these resources. With people having access to the open world/blended technologies through their phones, mobile devices and computers at home and work, will there be a divide between those use it to get what they need and those who put an input to the web of learning? Will we all be contributors or will we all be information gatherers. Something we know for sure is: the world is open and that way-- WE ALL LEARN.
Our main activity was watching an online (live feed) presentation of Dr. Bunk on his studies and views of the current technology of social learning though Web 2.0. Some of his points were Media Sharing and common interaction among peers in which by sharing sources (on-line) WE ALL LEARN.
One of his main attention grabber phrase was his self made acronym W-E-A-L-L-L-E-A-R-N.
His presentation went on how things have changed from our grandparents/parents way of learning to ours and how technology is enabling access to speak, indulge and show the world our knowledge, our resources to all those with access.
Dr. Bonk's introduction to his "The World is Flat" presentation placed me back in my Latin American studies in undergraduate school. How significant changes over a short period of time can re-route the course of history. Defying moments driving by people seeking power and/or overthrowing power can resolve the enigma of how close, yet how far we are from understanding and learning from each other. Today in education and Web 2.0, our self determination of seeking for wisdom and the reforming impact on the many projects for OpenSourcessness vying for a better, more constructed way of information knowledge base, will open our participation and anticipation of the way we will learn in the future, or at least what we envision.
There were three points that grabbed my attention and what Dr. Bonk calls the "The Triple Learning Technology."
Pipes: the ability of tools and how it is set up.
Pages: What's out there? The availability of free educational content and resources, (OER) OPEN EDUCATIONAL SOURCES.
Participatory Learning Culture: A cultural move towards an open access and collaboration and global sharing.
One last note I would like to mention is the accessibility of these resources. With people having access to the open world/blended technologies through their phones, mobile devices and computers at home and work, will there be a divide between those use it to get what they need and those who put an input to the web of learning? Will we all be contributors or will we all be information gatherers. Something we know for sure is: the world is open and that way-- WE ALL LEARN.
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