Rob and Alec and I sat down in our respective residents for our monthly discussion. This time we examined some of the challenges and successs of teaching outside the limits of time and space.
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Hi Dean, I am off for the weekend so I never got a chance to listen to your whole podcast. I guess only 15 minutes to be honest, but I caught the gist of what was being said. I thought I would post my experience to your ECMP class and how I feel about learning in general. Yes this class is very overwhelming, but what class isn’t in any semester. I remember last semesters hope to finish every task needed to be done. I always had to slow down and regroup. Life in general will always be like that. I believe that our reactions play a huge role in our outcome of the learning we absorb. A 6 week course is short and I have spend a few all nighters to get my work done, knowing that I will catch up on my sleep very soon. Crash time not only for this class but for sleep needed after too. In any learning environment whether it is a long or short span if we do not take our own ownership of our learning than we will not get a thing out of it. I think that students are too wrapped up on what grade they will get than the growth of their learning. It is how we grow up in our school systems. I agree when you said last class “If you do not get an assignmnet done, it is ok” We can not be expected to know and do everything in life! What do we retain? Well that desision is on our shoulders. Sometimes I may not be at the same level as some of our peers in this class, but when I look back to what I knew to what I know now, my learning has grown tremendously already. I may not know how to podcast right now but I will in the near future, because I want too. That is what is important to me. I am stubborn and will play around with it until I get it!!
I like the elluminating classes because they are recorded and can be referenced back to. How many classes do we ever get to do that in? If we get to keep all these recordings and links in our wet paint account it will be useful to be able to look back to whenever we need.
I hope to sit down here sometime over the weekend and listen to the rest of your podcast…
Karie Shielss last blog post..Final Project Part 1
Quote “The house we build with the tools given to us will showcase our skills with those tools”
Karie
Karie Shielss last blog post..Final Project Part 1
Technology is changing the face of the classroom. Podcasting lectures and videos are making the classroom more transient.
Nice discussion using this podcast. I too struggle with the debate and discussion that is talked about on the podcast. The debate is do people retain and learn more in the classroom over a longer time with other students or by yourself on your own on an online shorter class? I prefer an online format and believe completely it shouldn’t matter the format of a class, it’s more the individual person who is taking the course that can answer that question. I feel that doing my class work on my own time schedule and not have it planned for me is a better way for me to learn. I am a structured teacher in my profession, but in my own learning I like the flexibility of a shorter online class. The debate extends to does more learning occur in a three, six week, or four month period. I think it depends on how busy your life is and what goes on during that period. I tend to forget earlier things when it is spread over time, and would rather connect skills in a shorter period of time. The discussion speaks of process learning verses content driven learning, and process probably needs longer time periods and the content teaching can possibly be completed in a shorter amount of time. I like the analogies within the podcast, including building a house needs process driven teachings about tool usage and materials, all before actually building. This shows that technology can’t be learned without learning about the process before the application. I feel in a six week course, both content and process can be learned successfully. Nice job discussing this topic on the podcast.