Reflections on The Future and Research – Week 12
CCK08 - I missed the Friday session last week, and the review of it is one that I'm sad I missed. It's a huge relief to have it over. In the future I hope that courses in this reality we go in a couple of slightly different ways.
The Daily - you need some sort of central location to allow people to sift through the vast array of materials before they can select their aggregation of feeds.
Moodle - I would not use it next time. Strongly suggest blogs, and e-mail a listserv (the Daily listserv?) to announce your blog.
Emotionality - Stephen makes a point about emotions and motivation at 9 minutes or so in the wrap up, and how the student should be responsible enough, and intellectual enough, to disavow those emotions. I don't think that's right, or even just. I would hope that someone in my peer group would think of the consequences of their actions, and how it might have an effect on others. I would've thought that Stephen would consider another's emotions, and the emotionality of learning - this stuff isn't as dispassionate as that. Learning is confusing, frustrating, angering, reflecting... It's part of the role of a facilitator to consider the emotions of the participants. I don't know if there's anything else than that.
Twitter - I never really got this technology. I'm into depth of understanding. I don't think this provides it. I have an account, follow a few people... but largely I'm not that interested in twitter.