07 May 2006
Education as a Product
Shane Dawson was our third presenter on 24 April.
- We are all online learners now.
- Prensky's digital natives or digital immigrants.
- www.Sticky.net.au - a QUT website for digital creativity.
- Univ of Ontario in Canada is the first university to include a laptop for each student in their enrolment fees. Observations of how those students use the laptops has shown they all multi-task while they are in lectures.
- Focus on the learning - only see tools you actually need!
- Shane drew an interesting diagram with "Technology" on the Y axis and "Time" on the X axis. He then drew lines representing staff, students and vendors. Result - There is a digital void. Students and technology vendors learn all about the technology in a quick timespan. Staff don't have the time to work up the technology axis which results in a digital void. The students are up there with the technology vendors. I personally think that is too broad a result - it depends on so many variables!!!!
- As leaders/change brokers what processes are we going to implement?
- Keeping up with our neighbours!!
