Tag: #understanding

I Found a Love, For Me, Darling Just Dive Right In, and Follow Me Please

- Kelly Ziegler 9 Comments

My Love-Hate Relationship
with Social Media

Let’s Take a Trip Back in Time

flatlay display of electronics next to eyeglases
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Hmm… I guess I would have to say that my relationship with social media is somewhat complex. I am of the age where I grew up alongside social media, learning about it and engaging with it from its early infancy, until what we see it as today. At first, I jumped on board without even knowing what it was. I had an email address at a young age, and of course, MSN. I wasn’t adventurous enough to dabble in online chat rooms that were open or anything of that nature. I played it quite safely. My peers started to jump head over heels into MySpace and Hi5, so like them, I too eventually ended up on those sites. Can I say I remember them well? Not really. I was really young and also not really into it. I was skeptical of a lot of it, and wasn’t comfortable using it, nor did I have enough computer access to really want to dive into it (that took away from MSN time and playing The Sims, remember?).

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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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