Tag: #constructivism

Welcome to the Internet, Have a Look Around, Anything that Brain of Yours Can Think of Can be Found…

- Kelly Ziegler 7 Comments

Digging Deeper into Web 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0
(Week 3: Post 1)

“The web influences people’s way of thinking, doing and being, and people influence the development and content of the web.  The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used as a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement from Education 1.0 toward that of Education 3.0.  The Web, Internet, Social Media, and the evolving, emerging technologies have created a perfect storm or convergence of resources, tools, open and free information access.”

Jackie Gerstein
Photo Courtesy of 7 Generation Games.
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So We Keep Waiting, Waiting, Waiting to Enhance Learning with Tech.

- Kelly Ziegler 4 Comments

“Technology is not just a tool. It can give learners a voice that
they may not have have had before.”
-George Couros

Learning Theories, Perspectives, and Transformations

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Reading this week’s blog prompt, sent me through a flashback of writing my thesis (what feels like 100 years ago) and trying to define what an adult learner meant. Similarly, there are a lot of altering definitions of educational technology, however, like the term adult learner, there isn’t one universal definition that is accepted by all as a guiding definition of what it means. Therefore, there are many ways that educational technology has been defined, and is highly dependent upon one’s familiarity, place, time, and many other factors.

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