October 5 at 9:53 am
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"That's a good point about learning Charles. I was trying to get at that point in my discussion about note-taking. There is another angle to this though. Are our conceptions of what learning is technology-specific? That is, if we define a good outcome of a pedagogic experience to be what happens when lecturing and textbooks and FTF discussion are done well, then learning online or multitasking in the classroom would not make much sense. On the other hand, online pedagogies and and in-class, networked multitasking (like twittering), when done well, would almost certainly lead to outcomes that would be difficult if not impossible to achieve by traditional means. As such, the question becomes: are we going to be able to value the cognitive experiences of networked interaction as worthwhile learning experiences? And perhaps more pointedly, what happens if teachers are unable to adapt their pedagogies to the shifting technocultural contexts in which we all live? As I pointed out above,..." - Alex Reid