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2. My name:
PAUL TEO
3. My role in the SAF:
DIRECTING STAFF (NAS) - educate and train officers & military experts to be competent, confident and commited naval war-fighters ...
4. Why I am taking the Specialist Diploma:
to be socialised with the latest in learning and explore their applicability
5. What I hope to gain from the New Media Pedagogy course:
to be acquainted with new media and how this can be adopted
6. My notes and questions:
what is new media? what is so new about it? how can this be infused into current pedagogies? Linkage between new media and learning strategies (pedagogies)?
Where does knowledge reside? How do people learn?
Knowledge resides in our heads or in written form (physically or electronically)
People learn by watching, listening and/or practising
Cognitivism:
Cognitivism is the theory that humans generate knowledge and meaning through sequential development of an individual’s cognitive abilities, such as the mental processes of recognize, recall, analyze, reflect, apply, create, understand, and evaluate. The Cognitivists' learning process is adoptive learning of techniques, procedures, organization, and structure to develop internal cognitive structure that strengthens synapses in the brain. The learner requires assistance to develop prior knowledge and integrate new knowledge. The purpose in education is to develop conceptual knowledge, techniques, procedures, and algorithmic problem solving using Verbal/Linguistic and Logical/Mathematical intelligences. The learner requires scaffolding to develop schema and adopt knowledge from both people and the environment. The educators' role is pedagogical in that the instructor must develop conceptual knowledge by managing the content of learning activities. This theory relates to early stages of learning where the learner solves well defined problems through a series of stages.
Constructivism: (Cognitive & Social)
Constructivism is a theory of learning and an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways that people create meaning of the world through a series of individual constructs. Constructs are the different types of filters we choose to place over our realities to change our reality from chaos to order. Von Glasersfeld describes constructivism as, “a theory of knowledge with roots in philosophy, psychology, and cybernetics”. Simply stated, it is a learning process which allows a student to experience an environment first-hand, thereby, giving the student reliable, trust-worthy knowledge. The student is required to act upon the environment to both acquire and test new knowledge.
Connectivism: (an extension of Constructivism) ... knowing who and where (from knowing what and knowing how)
Connectivism is a theory of learning based on the premise that knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head of an individual. Connectivism proposes a perspective similar to Vygotsky's Activity theory in that it regards knowledge as existing within systems which are accessed through people participating in activities. It bears some similarity with Bandura's Social Learning Theory that proposes that people learn through contact. The add-on "a learning theory for the digital age", that appears in Siemens' paper indicates the emphasis it gives to how technology affects how people live, how they communicate and how they learn.
What is the link to new media and new media strategies?
New media as a platform and strategies as a bridge?
Notes on Virtual World (2nd Life)
Overcome shyness and encourage participation (eventually strengthening learning)
Virtual World creates new connections with real world
7. My individual presentation/assignment:
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