New Horizons

Our second lecture for The Learning Innovator was held on Monday 24 April. Four of Peter Taylor's colleagues gave presentations. Here are notes from the first presentation from Kar-Tin Lee.

Changing Pedagogical Practices: How far down the track are we and how can technology help?

1. If everyone in your organisation likes you, you are not fostering enough change.
2. If you never fail, you are not taking enough risks.
   
3. Leaders redefine people's paradigms about what is possible.
4. It's all about process rather than the tools!
5. How do we help Y gen create knowledge?
6. How do students learn today?
7. A teacher's learning environment is about communicating and collaborating, finding out how to assemble digital resources into structured sequences. It's about IP and digital objects. It's learning how to tap into technology for assessment.
8. Everyone has different definitions for "What is e-learning?". When I asked this question of a student focus group at Southbank Institute, they all thought it meant having to go to the Internet to access and print out their course notes!!!
9. Kar-Tin gave four key points about technology and learners. My favourite is to provide personalised feedback.
10. Informal learning Hole in the Wall (Sugata Mitra, NIIT, India) (Rennie & Mason, 2004 pp.118-121).
11. How do we think?

When questioned after the presentation, Kar-Tin suggested it was good practice to survey students to find out their learning styles. However after a few years she has come to understand the blend. A suggestion was to get students to undertake an online learning styles survey in week 1. This will not only help guage their learning styles but give them the opportunity to engage online.