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Beginnings
Submitted by tstorr on Tue, 06/02/2007 - 4:11pm.
Wow! First may I give my heart felt thanks to Vince, Michael, Ann and the team at CORE-ED for making last week such an enjoyable and useful experience. To spend the week in the company of teachers who have such interesting and challenging ideas of what education could be like in the 21st Century was something special.
At an individual level the week was spent crystallising my ideas about what my research topic should be on. At the start of the week I knew that I wanted to research something to do with how Moodle is used in secondary schools - probably some aspect of what 'community' means - how to sustain and cherish learning communities but was concerned that I'd not be able to look at what what types of activities in Moodle appear to be interesting for students to use. After having an Eureka! moment, I realised that what teachers perceive to be interesting, engaging and successful is not always the case from the learners point of view. Web2.0 activities are often promoted as being effective means to teach and learn using social or co-constructive methods. My research will look at the experiences of teacher and learner - (Y13 students) when using Moodle to learn about Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP to build interactive websites.
The running title of my project is "What does co-constructive learning in a web2.0 context mean from the perspective of facilitator and learner?" Hopefully at the end of the year I'll have a more firm idea of the educational possibilities of using Web2.0 tools with senior classes.
At an individual level the week was spent crystallising my ideas about what my research topic should be on. At the start of the week I knew that I wanted to research something to do with how Moodle is used in secondary schools - probably some aspect of what 'community' means - how to sustain and cherish learning communities but was concerned that I'd not be able to look at what what types of activities in Moodle appear to be interesting for students to use. After having an Eureka! moment, I realised that what teachers perceive to be interesting, engaging and successful is not always the case from the learners point of view. Web2.0 activities are often promoted as being effective means to teach and learn using social or co-constructive methods. My research will look at the experiences of teacher and learner - (Y13 students) when using Moodle to learn about Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP to build interactive websites.
The running title of my project is "What does co-constructive learning in a web2.0 context mean from the perspective of facilitator and learner?" Hopefully at the end of the year I'll have a more firm idea of the educational possibilities of using Web2.0 tools with senior classes.
An interesting perspective