This week is a bit of a hectic for me but I managed to read a paper from the list. In the blog, I'd like to share my experiences with OER and microlearning (Word & Dennen, 2021). I've been working on a community named Indischool for my community observation paper. And a similar pattern of sharing among teachers was also described in the paper. And it was very interesting to note that some teachers buy and sell teaching materials online. In Indischool, every action of sharing is purely based on voluntary good intentions. But if money starts playing a role in there, I think it'd look quite different. And I've been struggling to build my own website these days. I really like Dr. Bret's template and I saw him having the whole repository of his personal website on GitHub. I checked out his repository and among the bunch of files... I found the original template that Dr. Bret used. So I downloaded all the relevant repositories to my Gi...
I went through this week's discussion topics and here is what I thought about so far. First of all, I think Web 2.0 helps people learn, although I'm still not sure about social media's educational affordance. Good examples can be found in coding/programming topics. There are so many welcoming communities in that area full of people eager to share their knowledge about how to code or debug. You can easily get an essential piece of information to get through an obstacle you bumped into while programming, which will be very hard if you only try to solve it with published knowledge, such as books. Also, I'd like to note that lurking is definitely an act of learning, although it does not directly contribute to the community. Among the comments, Bobbi's comment reminded me of what I believed as a teacher. So, people say the younger generation is born with the Internet at the tip of their fingers, calling them 'digital natives'. Does that mean th...
I read two articles by Dennen, Rutledge, and Badgy for this week. I think both articles are based on the same data collected from a high school in Florida. Both of them had very interesting findings, which are similar to what I experienced in Korea. For example, there were two types of teachers- the ones trying to regulate students' phone use (Leave it out of your sight) and the others trying to integrate it into their class activities (I was one of them). I think schools require some sort of discipline in younger grades for teaching them how to sit properly, pay attention to a certain thing for a given amount of time, and get the given tasks done. But once the students pass that era of establishing healthy, basic studying (or living) habits, I believe schools are also responsible for teaching students how to use their social media for self-regulated learning, like a quote in the paper. "Students don't know how much information they have at their fingertips." Another ...
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