[Yr7-10it] Re: [elearning] No emotional connection = No learning
Roland Gesthuizen
rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 15:31:33 EST 2008
Nah, just a word smith (amateur class). Probably from having too much
laughing whilst reading Terry Pratchett and his Discworld fantasy novels.
:-)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld>
Seriously though, some of you already know that a decade ago I was helping
pen a science fiction novel. After a several chapters I fell out with the
co-writer and now only have half space adventure with a cliff hanger launch
of a Buran and other literary wounds to lick over. For the last few years I
have been hiding in an obscure corner of the Internet, sulking whilst
blogging, geo-tagging obscure photographs and selling ABC Friends a virtual
rain water tank I made in Second Life.
Regards Roland
2008/12/23 Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au>
> Ro, you never cease to amaze with your talents!! Impressive knowledge of
> history, OR, just a ripper story teller!
> (perhaps a bit of both?).
> KB.
>
> Kent Beveridge,
> I.T. co-ordinator
> St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
> http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/ <http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/>
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> email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
> Hear about the bloke who struggled and fell? At least he gave it a go!!
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> 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
>
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> 2008/12/23 Briant, Stephen L <briant.stephen.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>
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> Not sure I wanna invite 'em back to the 12th C discussion!!
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> Thanks for the link though.
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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 blog post
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> http://web.me.com/timholt/Intended_Consequenses/Intended_Consequences_Blog/Entries/2007/6/15_Not_Invited_to_the_Buffet.html#comment_37A1291C_0113_1000_81B7_CEEB57893D05
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Perhaps like some of our students, we have been disinvited from the
> decision making process.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Regards Roland
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au <http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
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