Archive for: Classroom
Why, sometimes, learning with mobile technology fails?
As said in another post, I live in Spain. From 2008 to 2013, every student at primary school was given a laptop when started 5th grade. From my point of view, it was a failure, for many reasons that I have found in Warschauer & Matuchniak (2010).
Application in Database Class II
Phase II: Connectivism Last week all the separate wikis were made visible, and thus we started the connectivist phase. They can be browsed at http://dbavanzado.wikispaces.com/. Basically, we have constructed knowledge (blue cells in the chart below), and learners has become experts in different topics. Now it’s time to connect those nodes […]
Application in Database Class I
This is a real application of Constructivism and Connectivism in classroom using wiki. In particular, it is a course about Databases (MySQL and Oracle), part of a Vocational Technical Training program. The application of this experience with wiki started last Tuesday, and it has two main phases: The first is […]
Policy Paper: Wiki Technology in new Learning – I
This paper contains the background of the experiences reported in this section. It has been divided into two parts, to make the post more friendly. The first part focus on the theory, while the second focus on the real experiences. It was written as part of EDTED 467 Course, Emerging […]
Policy Paper – Second Part
This second part gives a brief description of personal experiences as well as other non-formal learning related experiences, most of them are well-known. Those personal experiences are going on at the moment of publishing this post. My intention is to report them more in-depth in this section of the site.