EDEL2002 Assessment 1: Foundation Technical Knowledge

 What i have learnt that pedagogy has three models which are, Transmission, Generative and Transformative. Pedagogy is centred on elementary education. If one has adult learners it is beneficial to take the andragogy approach since adults learn in a different way as compared to elementary scholars. I paid attention to a few technologies that can help students to reach their full potential in learning.I acheived this by exploring blogs, Wikis, Images, Audio and Video to facilitate learning.

Blogs
A few case studies were undertaken to analyse the affordances of blogs and the details can be seen in my preceding blogs. Affordances of blogs can be best summarised in the table below

It is interesting to note that multiple images can be uploaded at the same, for the purpose of this assignment i have chosen to upload one, a link to upload images is found at the top of the page and simply use the prompts to insert or upload images

The educational affordances of blogs offer the opportunities for students to become self directed learners in a supportive social environment. Blogging activities can assist groups of students and their teachers in the development of cognitive, social and self directed learning skills.Blogging is a useful tool in elearning as teachers we need to be fluent in how it works so as to manipulate blogging to pedagogy and andragogy.

Students can use blogs to complete an assessment, in a class of say 12 students if one comes up with three different points and share it on the blog a total of 36 points will be covered in a session, this is extremely difficult in a classic classroom setting whereby the teacher has to draw on the whiteboard and explain everything, that has the disadvantage of one way communication and time becomes the main focus.

Images,Videos and Audio  

 I have also explored affordances of technologies in learning which are images,audio and video in scoop.it, follow the link below to have a read:

http://www.scoop.it/u/hazel-kuveya

Wiki

The functionality of wiki for uploading and embedding information on wiki is found in the link below

https://hazelkuveya.wikispaces.com/My+Home+Page


The function of editing is the biggest advantage of using wikispaces, however it falls short from the blogs because it does not show the chronological set up and time for postings. Wikis can be used in a setting whereby the students are required to google videos or images of say principle of operation of an Residual Current Device(RCD), these artifects will need to be embedded or uploaded on their wiki and comment on their findings, they can also comment and edit their peers findings. The use of this technology results in students having an indepth knowledge and problem solving skills due to the vast amount of information being exchanged amongest themselves. Facilitators can also use the wikis to assess the students' comprehension of given tasks and see who requires help in the subject field.

A summary of the affordances of wikis are shown in the table below

Although the example points to health professionals it can be applied to electrotechnology students by simulating the case studies in the preceding blogs.

The affordances of echnology have vast applications, as facilitators as well as students manipulating these technologies has empowered the 21st century learners and facilitators like never before.

References

http://www.slideshare.net/taylorbrett101/wikis-affordances-analysistable

J. H. Jung, Christoph Schneider, Joseph Valacich. (2010) Enhancing the Motivational Affordance of Information Systems: The Effects of Real-Time Performance Feedback and Goal Setting in Group Collaboration Environments. Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 4, April 2010 .724-742

Samuel K. W. Chu, Alvin C. M. Kwan, Peter Warning (2012). Blogging for Information Management, Learning, and Social Support during Internship. Educational Technology & Society, 15(2), 168–178

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