What is eLearning?

Misconception

I always thought that as long as my lessons consisted of IWB, iPads or computers I was exposing the students to the skills and knowledge they need to implement ICT. However after spending time listening and reading the lectures I have discovered just how mistaken I have been.

While there is a definite role for ICT in teaching and learning to support traditional learning, ICT provides the potential to transform learning and teaching. It is a way to enhance, support and build learning not an end in itself.

The challenge lies in shifting from teaching and learning about ICT to teaching and learning with and through ICT. This means rather than using technology to do old things in new ways, we want to do new things in new ways and use technology to enable and transform teaching, learning and the curriculum (as cited Smart Classrooms Bytes, 2008).

 

Upon reflection

While I continue to accept and adopt learning through and with ICT, my future planning and pedagogy will focus more on how am I going to construct and transform student learning.

‘We don’t teach ICT’s; we teach about learning and learning with ICT’s (University of Southern Queensland [USQ], 2017).

 

 

Information entanglement (n.d). Tools to evaluate digital conceptualization. Retrieved July 27, 2017 from< http://image.slidesharecdn.com/informationentanglement-151105123229-lva1-app6892/95/information-entanglement-13-638.jpg?cb=1446726850

Smart Classroom Bytes. (2008). eLearning for smart classrooms. Retrieved July 22, 2017, from < http://education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms/documents/strategy/pdf/scbyte-elearning.pdf&gt;

University of Southern Queensland. (2017). EDC3100 ICT and Pedagogy: week two. Retrieved July 21, 2017, from< https://usqstudydesk.usq.edu.au&gt;