The CEO iLearn model is relevant. As we move to a technologically driven context, it is easy to lose sight of what is at the core of what we do. And that is teaching young people. The presence of a teacher, a guide with experience, knowledge and maturity cannot be supplanted by technology in any shape or form. In fact the presence of technology actually requires MORE from teachers not less.
We have to learn faster, think faster and open our minds far wider than has ever had to be done in any generation before us.
As the iLearn vodcast says, we are in an Information Rich Age, we all have an unprecedented access to information. This means we can ENGAGE our students but it is both in the Physical AND Virtual environments that we do this. We still need to provide an engaging classroom, structures, rules and routines that all adolescents need. But we are competing with the digital age in which they are born and so we need to utilse technology available to us to present the learning in a context which is more familiar to them.
We all learn better when we are engaged and challenged and motivated. It is not always possible to guarantee that our students fit into all three categories, that would require a magic wand! But we have more tools at our disposal now than there has ever been before.
The adapted CEO version of the BLOOMs Taxonomy model is an excellent reminder that Students as well as Teachers are all at different levels of ability, even in the realm of technology.
It is very helpful in planning for eLearning to be aware that we still all learn differently and thus need various paths through which to access the information and learning.
My overall perspective is that the job of teaching is now facing exciting and challenging paradigm in e-Learning and all it encompasses. The Web 2.0 course is a fantastic launching pad from where to start the journey down this path, to better equip us to understand and augment all the new possibilities it holds.
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