This weeks tutorial was run by Maria and was based upon Connected Learning in an Australian Technology Program. In this lesson we had looked at the wide range of different technologies that were available in classrooms for teachers to use. Also, the benefits they have as well as the possible negative effects they might pose.
In my own experience during high school in year 12 my English classroom had the camera set as well as the Television for video conferencing. There was no use of this technology in terms of learning the content we needed in regards to school content. However, I do remember vaguely using the video conference once where my whole class as well as fellow year 12 English classes sat in the room and talked to another school.
But for video conferencing to be implemented in a primary setting I cannot see the relevance as to what students could be possibly discussing with other schools as they are too young. However, I came up with an idea that there might be a possibility for debating through video conferencing but other than that I wasn't too sure as to how primary aged students could use this form of 'Connected Learning'.
Other forms of connected learning could be achieved through Skyping where students now can communicate with anyone from anywhere just by having a webcam and the program Skype.
References
Hunter, J. L. (2012). Connected Learning in an Australian Technology Program: A case study. In I. Management Association. USA (Ed), Organisational Learning and Knowledge: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (pp. 1623-1632).
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