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  • To innovate or wait: that is the question confronting IT managers on an almost weekly basis.
  • Perhaps the question instead should be how best to move in this direction yet avoid the faddish false starts that the Chronicle writer cautioned against.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 14 Sep 08
       
      I agree that this is the important question. Start with curriculum and then choose a tool/technique.
  • In a nutshell, this theory holds that learning is strengthened, deepened, and made more effective when it is social, is engaged, provides formative assessment (as opposed to just summative), is relevant (tying content to students' concerns), and offers learners multiple paths. But perhaps the single most important component of constructivist learning theory is that learning happens best when students are active—not merely taking notes in lecture halls but writing, thinking, experimenting, creating, and devising.
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  • In short, the Web 2.0 models the very active engagement that is central to the learning paradigm.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 14 Sep 08
       
      Well, that sums it up very nicely.
  • If one studies this table long enough, a gestalt emerges: the Web 1.0 looks uncannily like the teaching paradigm, whereas the Web 2.0 resembles the learning paradigm.
  • The opportunity lies in students being able to engage in activities and create content that lives outside the course site—in their own space, a space that is a resource and staging ground for their work across their entire academic career.
  • Michelle Krill on 13 Sep 08
     
    But how do we know that providing Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking or Facebook-like functionality will actually improve learning?
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