Week 2: Learning in the Digital Age

Reflection (video W01)

John Seely Brown Lecture: Learning in the Digital Age

Learning is very different in digital age, as a teacher, we should change our mind and teaching approach to suit this latest trend. As what John Deely Brown said in the video: “In campus, as much happens outside the classroom as inside, we need to facilitate both”, I agree with that, I think this will also happen in primary and secondary school soon. This remind us as a teacher, should prepare ourselves for that, so that we will be able to prepare our students for a “world of constant change”.

As a teacher from X generation, we have to teach students from Net-generation which born and grow up with the technology. They are much more technologyable than us. How are we going to teach them with the help of technology? It seems a biggest challenge for us. I agree with what John Seely Brown said: "Not the technology but the pedagogy that matters". Technology is just a tool that we can make use to deliver the content, don't just eager to pursue technology and neglect pedagogy. 

In order to make learning effective, it’s important for us to know what kind of learning is in tune with the net-generation. John Deely Brown proposed a concept which support the blended epistemology by network affordances, it constitutes by 3 important components: knowing, making and playing. In Youtube, Facebook, Blogger, Wikipedia, World of Warcraft …… which fond of the youngsters, we can find all these components. I like this concept, and do believe that if we know how to repurpose all this technology as teaching tools, it will be very useful for us to deliver our content successfully.