[elearning] No emotional connection = No learning

[Roland Gesthuizen]

ROTFL 12th century? .. ow well, that could put an interesting spin on things
..

King Richard is entering into some long overdue peace negotiations with
Saladin whilst Robin is doing his bit to encourage tree planting in Sherwood
forest. The Mongols about to stomp over Asia toward the edge of Europe
bringing a horse based telecommunications system we must engage with. My
Cambodian students can consider their flourishing Khmer Empire and
contribute technical variants on the construction of the Angkor Wat temple.
Before the candle runs out, I'll finish carving another set of wooden clogs
then pen some notes on my blog scroll and reflect on an idea of binding them
together to create a 'book' ..

They reckon it will never catch on :-)

Regards Roland

2008/12/23 Briant, Stephen L <briant.stephen.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>

>  Not sure I wanna invite 'em back to the 12th C discussion!!
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> *From:* elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> elearning-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 23 December 2008 2:28 PM
> *To:* eLearning mailing list; Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List
> *Subject:* [elearning] No emotional connection = No learning
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> Here is an interesting angle on eLearning that I picked up from this 2007
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> As we bore our students by teaching with 19th century techniques and refuse
> to invite them to be part of the 12st century discussion about their
> learning, they "emotionally move away from learning and we *disinvite*them from process." No emotional connection = No learning.
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> With Moodle, I get my students to grade my questions and activities. I also
> openly solicit their feedback in a discussion forum. I am passionate about
> my year 9 Research Science course and share this with my students. I even
> recall a decade ago running a series of staff and student focus groups to
> help me define and describe the kind of 'next millennium' infrastructure we
> expected from our computer network. Following an invitation, we  forwarded
> this onto Paul Dougherty, the then Education Department IT division head.
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> Do we currently engage students and staff in wider discussions about how
> eLearning should be implemented and adapted? When I consider the current
> blind push to deploy a commercial Ultranet solution, I am now not surprised
> that there is no real emotional connection and ownership. Although it is
> interesting to read reports of implementing pilot school reports, nothing
> beats asking grass root users what they think to develop a sense of
> ownership in order to build an emotional connection. This would have been
> easy to do but seems to have been ignored.
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> Perhaps like some of our students, we have been *disinvited* from the
> decision making process.
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> What do others think?
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> Regards Roland
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
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> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
> Mead
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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