Monday, September 6, 2010

We are a good example of "students in the Cloud"

I agree that the “ extension of the learning conversation online (with blogs, wikis, e-mail, texting, chat, conferencing systems, portfolios, and so on), helps students develop online literacy skills. Though it is dependent on technology, it represents a return to the roots of human learning. Learning has always involved conversation. In fact, knowledge results from, or increasingly is, consensus-building through conversation.” (article about Cloud Computing). For centuries, knowledge was mainly acquired by conversation as the stories were passed through generations by “talking” to who was considered more expert about something, just a very few people were able to acquire information through books, so the learning conversation online is a return to the roots, but as it’s always been, it’s a process that must be guided in order to be more accurate. That’s the role of the college instructors and professors who design courses that uses one of the interfaces click-and-go, like our course, with the Diigo and Blog.

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