Sunday, 6 March 2011

PMI

I enjoyed completing the learning wiki during the week on Digital Natives/Immigrants but mostly because I got to sit down and meet and more importantly discuss face to face with my GDLT colleague, Vanessa.  I really enjoy learning with group activities but the digital disconnect is really off putting for me.

The week 1 learning activities so far have been very stressful and mostly unfulfilling.  By this, I don't mean that I haven't learnt a lot (I think I have tried to absorb too much) but that I have felt like an anxious child not sure if I am doing the right thing, if my work is up to the teachers standard, if I am on the right track and where exactly is everything leading me.  I don't like being anxious or feeling like a child with little bits of information fed to me and hopefully I will say "Ahhhh Gravity" in the end.

I am also finding it difficult to read and absorb so much information and then to quickly turn around and produce a cohesive thought on same.  There is not enough time for true reflection in this manner and scaffolding does not help if you do not know what you are building in the end.

All in all, digital learning for me so far is not engaging but enraging!  I need to see a face and hear a voice and be heard.

1 comment:

  1. I think you're smarter than you're giving yourself credit for. I thought the other day that we maybe are just like digital natives... unlike them with their video games, facebook, ipod, computer on, tv on , texting at the same time etc etc... we've got our kids in our ear, we're making dinner at the same time, we've got two loads of washing on the go, we're chatting to our girlfriends about plans for the school run in the morning, we're mentally preparing for work the next day making the kids lunch AND we're thinking about ICT's, learning frameworks and Bloom's taxonomy, the assessment and when on earth we're going to fit it all in....Tim tams and a cup of tea at my house later this week!

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