Grainne Conole. “New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies”. July 2008, Ariadne Issue 56 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/conole/
Below are some of the points summarized and quotes from Conole.
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“I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop ‘schema’ or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer.”
inherent tension between the rhetoric of Web 2.0 and current educational practices
- speed and immediacy, slow learning vs digital learning
- user participation, variety in form & challenges for setting assessment criteria and strategies
- Internet and access to information: validity for assessment focusing on memorization
- Wiki vs editing others’ work and combine sources (plagiarism?)
- academic referencing and difficulty in identifying sources as high speed and wide spread of information through digital channels & means
- “pedagogy is learner-centred, current educational systems are not – administrative processes and assessment practice remain firmly bound to hierarchical, differentiated educational structures”
Technology affordances mapped to different learning theories
“Recent thinking in learning theory has shifted to emphasise the benefit of social and situated learning as opposed to behaviourist, outcomes-based, individual learning. What is striking is that a mapping to the technologies shows that recent trends in the use of technologies, the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 echoes this; Web 2.0 tools very much emphasise the collective and the network.”
There are three interesting figures illustrating
- Pedagogy framework for mapping ‘tools-in-use’
- A framework of learning characteristics
- The impact of new technologies on organisations, individuals and practices
“It is evident that the new technologies now enable individuals to personalise the environment in which they work or learn, appropriating a range of tools to meet their interests and needs.”
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