Day 2 - Afternoon

How does the technology you currently use enhance your students learning and your teaching? How do you know?

From the last post, really the focus of easing the management of learning for teaching and learning. I think the idea is that if you lessen the time needed to, say grade a test which can be done automatically, the teachers will have more time to interact and TEACH students. That's what I assume the theory is.

They really are learning MANAGEMENT systems. Not learning systems. The focus of Moodle and webCT is management. And the consensus among those I've worked with is that they don't enhance learning 'out of the box', but do enhance management 'out of the box'.

I do feel it enhances learning by opening and easing communication - but that is an indirect effect. They say "You can only learn by doing." Games allow the students to do things, experience things... and under their own steam. Exploring at their own pace and with little interaction from Teachers, game learners can learn in a more natural way than being led by the hand at a lowest common denominator pace and with constant presence of the instructor.

Free your _____, and your _____ will follow.