Creating elearning experiences

There are many facets of learning. None of which I fully understand, but a basic knowledge and just some simple commonsense prevail. Learning from my own experiences has been, tough, and thwart with many perils… these perils being the many facinating distractions surrounding our digital age. Mark Pesce recently spoke to a group of educators in Sydney about kids these days. His speech ranted on the fact that kids nowadays communicated in very different ways to what we as adults perceive as “normal”. Normal is in inverted commas as it is a word that has a varied meaning to each indivudal. What is normal to our kids in terms of communication and social interaction is very different to how we use to communitcate. Even some of us adults are adopting the communication and getting ‘hyperconnected’.

In order for our model to work we need to remove the boundaries of mis-communication and open the social networks in which our children openly interact with each other everyday. Obviously there needs to be education in terms of netiquette and we will also need to monitor the communication between the students to combat bullying, foul and offensive behaviour etc. Having a semi closed system could combat the outside world looking in and poluting the childs mind, but then they can go home and connect to these mediums anyway. The system is not perfect but maintained and built correctly could really take advantage of the social interactive learning our children take on board so easily.
Those Whacky Kids – M Pesce