Welcome to my website
This website has been developed to showcase my learning in my university unit Living and Learning with Technology. This unit encourages us to take ownership and responsibility for our learning. Creating a website provides me with the opportunity to showcase my technology skills and to share my knowledge and finished resources with my peers. My blog is where I will reflect on my learning throughout this unit.
For Task 1 we simply create our web and blog. In Task 2 we will research digital citizienship and explore social learning using social media. Finally in Task 3 we will work together in small groups to develop an authentic learning project to demonstrate how technology can be used in the classroom as cognitive tools to support student learning and engagement.
For Task 1 we simply create our web and blog. In Task 2 we will research digital citizienship and explore social learning using social media. Finally in Task 3 we will work together in small groups to develop an authentic learning project to demonstrate how technology can be used in the classroom as cognitive tools to support student learning and engagement.
Authentic learning
Herrington (2006) and Lombardi (2007) agree when learners are immersed and engaged in authentic learning environments they are exposed to the complexities of ill-defined real-world problems that provide opportunities for students to learn and practice these important “portable skills”. The more students are exposed to authentic communities of learning the better prepared they will be to deal with “the messiness of real-life decision making” (Lombardi, 2007, p. 3) required in our rapidly changing global economy. The increasing availability of new technologies provides the opportunity for educators to offer students a more authentic learning experience (Lombardi, 2007) but if educators ignore the potential of the Internet and affordances of new technologies (Reeves, Herrington & Oliver, 2002) they will fail to meet the needs of 21st century learners. |