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The meaning of open

These days of being what we like to call connected, I quite often come back to the image of viewing the world from a lawn (lawn is actually not the right word here, rather a bundle of grass slightly higher than surrounding, in Swedish called ‘grästuva’). A Swedish author Harry Martinsson wrote a book titled […]

First subject handed in

Today our group finished the work that begun with scenario 1. The scenario described the anxiety a teacher could have as a beginner of online teaching. During our fist meeting we had brainstorming of how we should proceed. We came up a lot of very different ideas and decided to think about how to do […]

The fallacy of nativeness

Prensky’s (2001) dichotomy of Digital Natives and Immigrants suggests that those born and nurtured in the digital age have an inherent ability to function within and understand this world. Conversely, those individuals not socialised within this world from a young age are never able to achieve complete proficiency in their access to and skill with […]

Attending first week’s meeting!

Actually I am still amazed by the possibilities opened by technology. Even though I have been using Zoom a lot during the pandemic I am impressed the our group distributed over several continents can come together live to discuss and share experiences not only professional but also personal. This way we are already after two […]

Topic 4: Pondering upon “Design for online and blended learning”

This was the scenario: “ A year ago we were forced to work online with the implementation of emergency remote teaching and learning because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It seems that in many instances we may still be approaching our teaching practice in the same way without using any of the existing theoretical models forContinue reading “Topic 4: Pondering upon “Design for online and blended learning””

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Topic 3: Learning about “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning”

(June 13, a very late blogger catching up finally!) Now this was a greatly inspiring topic, not the least as I had the opportunity to collaborate with Nadia Caldes in the PBL group – acting as “leads” for this particular topic during the run of two weeks. As a lead we were to design bothContinue reading “Topic 3: Learning about “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning””