Martin Jenkins said
- there is a need to identify barriers to accessing or using technology for learning, not just for preventing use, but restricting the use of the technology
- student expectations of technology is important – are we reinforcing students expectations to be ’spoon-fed’ learning
Research questions:
- curriculum design – researching the effectiveness of the design of curriculum across institutions and the sector as a whole
- web 2.0 technology – are these student-led or staff-led?
June 13, 2008 at 11:04 am |
I’m not sure I got Martins second point fully. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Kenny
June 16, 2008 at 11:38 am |
I think we were saying that so far technology especially in the form of VLEs has often been used as a dump for powerpoint slides. Students thus do not even have to attend sessions. Hence the reference to spoon feeding. We discussed students/learners fresh from sixth form with the expectation that they would be told what to do and be ’spoon fed’ the answers. ‘Dumping’ powerpoint slides seemed to meet this expectation and we felt this needed challenging via the curriculum design so that effort on the learners’ part was required.
Alan