Question 2 (d)

d) When conducting and online learning classroom, it is important that learning is occurring at higher levels of thinking, as indicated by Bloom’s taxonomy.    It becomes important to facilitate a classroom environment in which these higher levels – creating and evaluating – are occuring within the students. Social collaboration, constructivism and connectivism are all ways [...]

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Question 2 (c)

c)When conducting an online lesson, classroom management becomes a key issue. It becomes very common for students to become easily distracted when they are on the computer. One of the key ideas that can be used for a teacher when conducting a computer class, is to acknowledge that distractions exist, but to incorporate these distractions [...]

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Question 2 (b)

a)     The encouragement of collaboration among students is a key requirement for a successful online learning environment, and through the implementation of Web 2.0 software and hardware. This brings into question the idea of connectivism, which is primarily collaboration in the online sphere.   Generally speaking, connectivism is the learning process, where interconnections for knowledge [...]

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NETWORKED LEARNING EXAM – Question 2 (a)

a)     Throughout the world of Web 2.0, as a student teacher I have realized that there is an immense array of possibilities for the way in which a teacher can convey information to their students. The current era is digital, and it becomes crucial to address the students of the digital and technological age using [...]

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NETWORKED LEARNING EXAM – Question 1

a) http://equalityanddifference.pbwiki.com/ b) One issue we had was that we were unsure as to what topic to do the project on. We had a fair idea of the subject area, but we spent a lot of time discussing on the specific topic for the project, because we wanted to make sure we could create enough [...]

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NETWORKED LEARNING – Web 2.0 Essay

Web 2.0 is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity. Discuss.             Over recent years the internet has undergone an intense transformation. The current technological era has evolved, with second generation technology and software influencing how we access and utilise the internet. This [...]

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