I believe that there are two different feelings when facing (open) online learning. The first one refers to the loneliness of the e-learning student. From my experience, I’ve been perceiving for all these years that students feel that they are alone in the e-learning processes, even though they have meetings with their professors. That’s why I think it’s really important to promote collaborative learning between e-learning students to avoid this loneliness feeling.
On the other hand, there is a privacy concern on this reflection, which is something I agree on. I don’t like to share my personal life in networks, so I believe some students might have the same feeling when they are invited to switch their cameras on and show to their colleages their homes.
Nevertheless, there is a difference between sharing your private information and sharing your work. I don’t like to share my private life on social networks, but I keep some accounts on social networks sharing just professional information.
Furthermore, talking about digital literacy, is important to remark that ICT are just tools than can help if used adecuately. But digital doesn’t neccesarily means neither learn nor innovation. We have to measure and evaluate them in order to use them whenever it means an improvement.
As a Computer Science teacher, I use a lot of digital tools. Futhermore, I’ve got the abitity to learn how to use and start using new tools very quickly. But I realized that my colleagues from other disciplines need help with ICT. That’s why I have developed a set of projects with easiness-of-use in mind. One of them consisted on the creation of a polimedia room in our center, where the teachers can record, edit and publish educational pills without effort.
In that sense, I believe that YouTube videos are a powerfull professional tool for teaching in our era, and there are a lot of papers about that question within the literature. There are a few keys, like the duration, the preproduction and to adopt an informal and close language.
References
“Guía para el docente de Formación Profesional. Guías para la enseñanza online: estrategias de enseñanza y evaluación” Francisco José Hernández Pérez et al. 2020. ISBN 978-84-09-24846-9