Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 10 views
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social and technological networks subvert the classroom-based role of the teacher.
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Zach Lonsinger on 12 Jun 14This is a powerful opinion. I disagree. But I guess it all depends on perspective. I feel as if social and technological networks would add to the classroom-based role of the teacher by allowing the teacher to bring in the experts and be able to direct the students in the right direction. Again this may come back to being able to "know where to look" for information in an age of digital literacy.
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In the future, however, the role of the teacher, the educator, will be dramatically different from the current norm.
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I see this happening now, especially with my class last semester (spring 2014 Design Studio). The professor knew what he was doing, but the class was more less about him teaching us, and more about us teaching each other and ourselves. We simple went to class to discuss what we have been doing, new exciting technology discoveries, and to ask questions on projects or any edtech related issue really.
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The Knotted Ball of Education
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I’d like a learning system that functions along the lines of RescueTime – actively monitoring what I’m doing – but then offers suggestions of what I should (or could) be doing additionally. Or a system that is aware of my email exchanges over the last several years and can provide relevant information based on the development of my thinking and work.
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“To teach is to model and to demonstrate. To learn is to practice and to reflect.”
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An educator needs a point of existence online – a place to express herself and be discovered: a blog, profile in a social networking service, Twitter, or (likely) a combination of multiple services. What do you do when you meet someone? Most likely, you search for them in Google.
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And now LinkedIn. I know I always look up my professors on LinkedIn, RateMyProffessor, twitter. I like to know who they are and how they teach. I also do this with job applicants and job hire-ers as well. We are in an age where privacy is far and few between. Pretty soon we will be able to facially recognize someone through a devie like Google Glass, and immediately bring up their information. Scary.
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Persistent presence in the learning network is needed for the teacher to amplify, curate, aggregate, and filter content and to model critical thinking and cognitive attributes that reflect the needs of a discipline.
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I’m often surprised when I hear a declaration of web company’s birthday – Facebook at six years, Youtube at five years. It seems like these tools have been around much longer.
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This always blows my mind. I remember graduating high school in 2008 and going to college. This was when I learned that YouTube was only 3 years old at the time. I thought YouTube was around litearlly forever, being a young teenager, I had no idea. The first video ever on YouTube still cracks me up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
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