Something is missing in our equation for applying technology in education and that’s the cause for all failures – right, digital pedagogy! Technology is only a tool; we must get our principles right.
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5 Effective Uses Of Mobile Technology In The Classroom
Research has shown that though mobile technology is a great tool in our teaching and learning experience, many who use it only use it to increase efficiency and not necessarily effectiveness. This article provides 5 suggestions of how to effectively use mobile technology in the classroom.
Basic Learning Anatomy
What is Learning? There has been varied definitions and descriptions of learning and theorists have explained it in different ways. However, everyone (including me) has learnt one thing or the other, at one point or the other in life. So in the past few weeks, I had been thinking about what learning is to me …
Sharing Tribe, PLN, COPs – Different? Overlap?
Think of this blog post as a #ThinkingOutLoud kind of post and though it may not look perfect/finished, I wanted it out for some discussion (if I might get some). We just finished another #PKMChat tonight on Knowledge creation, sharing, exploring. Apart from all the discussions around portfolios and those around what stage of our …
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Getting Started with Twitter Chats
I’m sure you must have heard of “Twitter Chats” before now, and twitter chats are a good use of Twitter for professionals. I would just briefly give a simple description and show basics of what twitter chats are and participating in them. What’s a Twitter Chat? A twitter chat is a (usually) one-hour discussion, at …
Send PDF Documents via WhatsApp
Over the past weeks, WhatsApp had an update to its mobile apps. Whatsapp, which has grown from simply being a free texting service to the go-to app for communication, seem to be making series of updates to their app just to make it easier to keep in touch with family and friends. I can count …
Strategies for Writing Great Online Summaries
Have you ever been in a serious discussion or long chat and when the discussion was going on, you felt so much was been said but after it, you couldn’t identify much that you really learnt? This becomes even more critical when this discussion is done online. Either it’s a synchronous chat session that lasted …
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Encouraging Participation in An Online Course
As I continue my reflections and keep learning how to facilitate online, one of the activities this week was responding to a very interesting scenario on encouraging participation. Just like in a face-2-face classroom setting, the online environment also has a variety of students with different learning styles, personality types and technical skill level (peculiar …
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Facilitating Online – First things First!
I’ve been wondering how to approach my reflections here. I could pick it from the student angle which I am in the course and simply report how the course progresses, but I decided to reflect from the facilitator’s point of view. Since I am training to be a facilitator in an online environment, looking at …
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Online Facilitation – My Reflections!
I was so excited that morning when I finally received the confirmation email stating that I had been selected to participate in this online course on Facilitating Online, being offered by the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching of the University of Capetown, South Africa. I had previously received an email with the opening …