måndag 14 mars 2016

WOW ;) My learning will change my teaching

Today I made a pedagogical turnover. The webinar on Friday made me think, during the weekend I thought a lot about what I am doing and not doing. So today I have taken a decision  - my students will be active om Wikipedia .
The course begins the 30:th of Mars and they will be writing their first ? wiki in April. Really fun, to make a course visible , to make the students visible, they will learn a lot that takes hour and hours in teaching about source critic, licenses, ,,,

To push student in to be citizens in internet. I will learn and they will too.
There is a lot to think about - like what can you write (ethics,badmouthing) - And to be aware about the consequence, about source criticism (Watson.A.M, Lopiano.R.G, 2016) It is  a bit scary  -What will happen when I let 50 students, handle 50 pages ? 

Watson.A.M, Lopiano.R.G, (2016). Case Study Should we fire him for that post? Harvard Business Review, March p103-105. WWW.HBR.ORG 

torsdag 10 mars 2016

Videos from David White about Digital litteracy

Knowledge as private information shared with a very small number of people. Or knowledge as debate, as twitter, free for everybody. What difference does it all make? When anyone can spread thoughts to anyone who want to listen ? Will there be a black market of information/knowledge. So what will happen with academia when knowledge is free online?
A lot of questions arises:  Is it legitimate to discuss my thought? What will happen if I spread my thoughts to anyone who listens? Is Academia for the privileged ? institutions or individuals?

Recommended:  videos from David White on youtube, they are interesting and easy to follow.

onsdag 9 mars 2016

What do we expect of our students to know about the internet ? How should I use internet ?

Digital literacy  -  a kind of power. 

Digital literacy will probably be of great value for health, According to  Antonowsky,  sense of coherence, is  most important  for health (Antonowsky, 2005).  Digital Literacy might give a "sence of coherens" Digital literacy gives an opportunity to be social, find friends, a way of belonging, of beeing seen. And maybe Digital literacy will  give social status, making you visible, giving value. Digital literacy in earning money  like som bloggers do, they live on digital literacy. Digital literacy might it be seen as some kind of Marketing ? Marketplace for your Identity - as you want to bee seen. Giving your footprints.

 Digital literacy and health is already here - Like in E-health, internet for elderly and sick. And now Digital literacy för students and their teachers. You might think ,,knowledge whats that ?


Knowledge as private information shared with a very small number of people. Or knowledge as debate, as twitter, free for everybody. What difference does it all make? When anyone can spread thoughts to anyone who want to listen ? Will there be a black market of information/knowledge. So what will happen with academia when knowledge is free online?
A lot of questions arises:  Is it legitimate to discuss my thought? What will happen if I spread my thoughts to anyone who listens? Is Academia for the privileged ? institutions or individuals? 
 REF: Antonowsky.A, (2005) Hälsans Mysterium. Natur & Kultur, Lund. isbn 9789127110274
in english:  Unraveling the mistery of health

måndag 7 mars 2016

guess I m on a journey

WOW, guess I'm on a journey.  I am a visiter on the internet!. If I stay long and get familiar with the surroundings , I might be recident. I dont really grasp the point in beeing recident. Maybe becaouse I have lived on  without even knowing that i trip to web was possible. And there is no Ads about going resident on internet. Whats In it for me? I wonder. I saw on You tube something that made me think - take a look at David White: Visitors and residents (part 1) http://youtu.be/sPOG3iThmRI   

I will have to se more of David White, and to think about  " What will the world look like when  everybody is resident?" but now I'll walk the dog.

fredag 4 mars 2016

About my first Twitter meeting

Twitter meeting, is it really possible to have a twitter meeting from my place on earth , the middle of nowhere in Småland ??. YES it is, it was amazing that I could write short and consistent (as I am eager to say to my own student - be consistent! ) We had a Discussion , me and about seven of my PBL group participaters.

A twitter meeting is like an organized chat, where we had booked a time and day and all went there to the #ONL161 . We discussed together and sent messages as private comments. Participators from all around the globe :)  It made me feel as member of the future. I guess I wont tweet, not yet anyhow, but as a tool it is amazing.

And this morning the birds outside my window agreed , saying tweet, tweet, tweet :)

tisdag 1 mars 2016

To be student in a new world - Learning reflections after two weeks


The DISC as the most important perspectives of online learning to be successful seems to me very true. As I apprehend it the Discussion is what I am looking forward to. And then I missed the adobe meeting on Monday since I thought it was om Wednesday. Information, where and when and how is obviously also important. The doodle did not work for me this time - usually it pops into my calendar, I think, but not this time. But the 'I' was for Involvement and that I obviously did not enough - I was free on Friday and left the course for three days - too many obviously.  As a teacher myself -I know  structure is important to schedule or plan my involvement, being a student is really different . I will have more structure with me in my own courses. Structure for teacher is not always structure for students.  I will involve more - each day ? And I hope for a congenial support and learning. but how and where ? on the blogs or where ?. I think the new Google+  (for me) is like a new world, not like facebook at all ;)
Maybe I am like my own students - crying for help, instead of taking control over my learning process. That scares me.  Learning is exciting and takes time and practices again and again.  I want Support!!! As everyone else it seems (Comey , Stevensson. ) And I hope for and will strive for a congenial learning. And then it is Control that is important - but control is to have a plan and work for it as someone said : "If it is important to you, you find a way - If not you find an excuse"

I will find a way.