Today I had the opportunity to run on the Oviedo trail with my fiance and her mom near Orlando. The trail, as you can see, is beautiful.
I also had the chance to think about mobile learning using web 2.0 technology. Produsers can explain about what they see in the field to educate their students. Students can produse from the field as an assignment from their instructor. Also, both parties can use mobile resources like email and internet.
Which side of mobile Web 2.0 technology do you think will be more widespread, teacher or student?
I think I'm going to do a mobile web 2.0 technologies post later giving specific examples of mobile web 2.0 in education later, but if you want to help me get the ball rolling on that, feel free to fire away.
....in case you were wondering, yes that's my fiance and me, but she's WAY faster than me, so we rarely run actually with each other. :)
As far as whether teacher or student will lbe more widespread, I think both of them will be an important factor in education for the future. The roles are changing for sure, and students are becoming more technologically savvy, however, experience is still the trump card that teachers hold no matter how student-centered everything gets.
ReplyDeleteHowever, teachers are adapting, Like Dr. Dennen, and others to becoming more facilitators that guide us through the process. Doesn't mean we students can't teach them some things, it just means that they have a greater knowledge base and experience in the field. So I hope society values that and doesn't squeeze out the importance of our teachers, however much it tries.
I hope you're right about society valuing teachers. Having worked in the K-12 environment and still knowing many teachers, I see how important they are in the development of kids. Also, at the risk of turning this into a constructivism/ direct instruction debate, students need a teacher to some degree.
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