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Tag: power

This is about control, not learning

Jun 24, 2024

in AI, Learning

agency, personal learning, personalised learning, power

A model describing 6 levels of autonomy for personalised learning. Except, the model actually describes 6 levels of control, split between teachers and AI, ignoring the student completely. Let’s rather build a model for integrating AI into learning, where we recognise the agency of learners.
Bring your own device

Mar 9, 2012

in Learning, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Students, Teaching, Technology

bring your own device, byod, empower, information management, power, self-directed learning

For the past 2 months we’ve been operating under a bring–your–own–device (BYOD) policy in one of the modules I’m co-ordinating. Actually, it’s the module that I’m evaluating for my PhD, and the BYOD policy is just one component of a completely restructured approach to the curriculum. Some background: Physiotherapy students work to solve clinical problems…
HELTASA conference, 2011 – day 2

Dec 1, 2011

in Conference, Education, Learning, Research, Technology

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, case-based learning, cbl, collaborative groupwork, community of inquiry, conceptual threshold crossing, conflict management, control, conversational framework, cput, discourse, disruption, disruptive technology, emotional resilience, epistemology, garrison, gilly salmon, groupwork, hard technology, heltasa, heltasa11, heltasa2011, higher education learning and teaching association of south africa, interpretive boundaries, laurillard, learning events, learning management system, liberalism, lms, nelson mandela metropolitan university, online learning, online presence, Ontology, pbl, piet naude, port elizabeth, postgraduate supervision, power, problem based learning, public good, scientism, small group learning, social presence, soft technology, student wellbeing, teaching presence, transformative change, troublesome encounters, utilitarianism

Explaining, naming and crossing border in Southern African higher education Prof Piet Naude This was one of the most challenging presentations I’ve ever listened to. I didn’t agree with a lot of what Prof Naude said, but he made me question my own beliefs and biases. Ontology: language is the house of reality (language…