I have previously written about myself as a loyal supporter of the socio-cultural view of learning. Throughout my teaching career, I have advocated the importance of collaboration and interaction to build knowledge. I also work with in-service training…
Topic 4: Assessing with ABC
To grasp online teaching, I have always taken a detour through what I already know, that is, physical teaching (and sometimes flipped classroom). This has unfortunately made online teaching a substitute or replacement rather than a form of teaching in …
Topic 3: Aha! My students are in a network!
I am a big fan of learning through collaboration. I am so “brain manipulated” in the sociocultural view of learning that I have a hard time seeing how knowledge can be built at all without interaction and two-way knowledge exchange between people. And …
Topic 2: Openness in my own practice
Together with the other members of PBL group 6, I have had fruitful discussions about openness, and what it means to us. One of the moderators during this period, Mark Gan, sums it up in well-chosen words in our presentation: Our group believes that Op…
Topic 1: What are digital literacies?
I have long seen myself as a child of the digital generation, a native user, if you’re using Prensky’s term. However, this view has been criticized from a broad front. White and Le Cornu summarize the criticism that the categorization of native a…