Brief scan of the environment
- Making improvement of the quality and effectiveness of learning experience
- Student control is integral to the future of learning and teaching
- harmonising disruptive technologies
- promising signs of web2.0 ubiquity and functionality
- 21st century students are NOT deeply digitally engaged, empowered, skilled nor homogenous
- Getting out and presenting ourselves and information, focusing on the relationships
- choosing the right tools - is the VLE dead, on life-support or live and kicking? www.go2web20.net - lists over 3000 apps
- Long-standing research into formal learning and groups
- Established set of tools to aid learning - classrooms, VLEs
- Need to develop f2f AND collab tools, security. trust, decision making and project mangement, a/synchronous dialogue
- Groups as communities of practice - distributed web2.0 group tools e.g. Wiggio
- Problems with groups - restrictions - tech and expectations, isolation from real world, low tolerance of international differences;
- from groups to flocks - do groups still make sense in learning today?
- frontiers of group learning -
- Groups are necessary but not sufficient for deep learning
Useful blogs - good work
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