Hi Professor,
Although there was no group activity for my group during this lesson, I will have to say that our class behaved as a group due to their various comments, clarifications,etc on questions asked about assignments and postings. There are quite a few of students that have elaborately contributed to my learning experience besides what you have provided. Since there was no official team work, I will answer your questions in relation to me as an individual in this course. I am proud that I have made it thus far in your class, as well as others without experiencing a complete meltdown...lol. Although I haven't performed as I would have liked to, I still feel glad that I have made some contribution to my learning by producing products that you have requested and continuously using familiar tools to create more products. I have found it to be challenging to complete all the final projects in my all of my classes to my expectations. Even though I have written down a skeleton of my projects, time is not on my side. I feel that even if I complete my projects, I will not be able to complete them with the detail I would like. I guess I am saying that if I wanted to elaborate on an area that I was really interested in, I couldn't because I would have to spread my attention to my other coursework. Although I am not completing any teamwork activities, I will have to say the class has more than likely received more real-life situations on the topics we discussed in the discussion board. There are many issues in creating networked learning environments, especially if you want to incorporate popular web-based tools such as Web 2.0 and social media websites. The main problem I see is that the policies implemented in various school districts,etc is not current with the change in access to nodes of information. Another problem would be the support necessary to manage and secure these various websites that would be used. Overall, I am really understanding the time and effort that must be utilized to create EFFECTIVE learning environments. It is more than just placing information in an organized format. It is placing information in a manner that supports models of instruction, using learning theories in the activities such as Constructivism, and providing effective assessment that is not limited to multiple choice and true and false, but the creation of products such as a website or a multimedia presentation. Thanks!
Mary
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Mary,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great reflections! You have been an excellent observer in our class. It really shows how much you have learn from the class. Our unit or class assignments may not always turn out as the way we want. It is because that there are so many factors in designing and developing NLE instructions. NLE takes on real work examples, empower learners and community members which create many challenging; however, it is truly effective way to teach and to learn.
I think 647 provides us an opportunity to know such advanced learning environment. In terms of design and develop ones, it would take us more experiences and understandings to do it.
Now we finished our NLE unit and are reviewing our classmates’ NLE units. I would like to remind us four components of technology integration instructions for NLE: content; technology; instructional strategies; and assessments. Don’t forget to use these four components to evaluate units in additional Connectivism’s principles, such as UGC, meshup, social networking etc., particularly are there any UGC technology, instructional strategies, and assessment applied?