Joshua pointed out a term "infotainment" in his blog that I have not heard yet. I like the description he provided, "Web surfing fuses learning and entertainment, creating infotainment." For so long we want to create a learning material that is "edutainment" and I don't think we have been successful.
I should have let students discuss about the article that they have read than I explain about it. After I read their blog entries, I kicked myself for not engaging them as I should have. Our class discussion would have been so richer but I made the discussion (?) very bland by taking an instructor role rather than a facilitator role. BAD, BAD. I didn't practice what I preach. Especially this week topic was on active learning and learner engagement.
Everyone seemed to know the differences between wiki and blog. Angela presented about Podcasting, and Sylvia showed her teaching site using various Web2.0 tools. I like to use Freemind mapping tool in this class as a collaboration tool.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Digital Learners
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I looked into freemind - I am going to use it as a platform to look at my hard/soft skills and a way of mapping out a portfolio.
We as a class share the responsibility for an off day.
I have also heard the terms
"entermation": entertain+information,
and
"entorm" entertain + inform
all great new terms for expressing learning combined with fun.
Freehand seems just as good as the other mapping/organization programs out there, and it's free. It does have those ugly OS 9/Windows 95 looking icons. Why are these programs so in love with the ugly icons that only a 4 year old could love? It's almost as if they broke into the house of the guy who made KidPix and stole his collection of icons. The icon for Freehand, the butterfly, looks good, but it was downhill from there. And what's with these lightbulb? Aren't people using halogen and fluorescent bulbs these days? People are debating about changing the "save" icon, generally portrayed as a floppy disk. People rarely use floppy disks these days, and for young people who didn't grow up with them, they don't get the connection.
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