e-Learning Ecologies MOOC’s Updates

Ubiquitous Affordance

I firmly believe that learning happens through using a wide range of tools. They could be books, art supplies, toys, digital devices and even other people that part of the learning environment or not.

Is it a human need to segregate, separate activities, link them to location and time frames? What is so different between homework and schoolwork? Do I stop learning when I leave school? Because for some students, going to school is not a positive action, learning is associated with this negative attitude. We might ruin fun if we asked about what was learned while playing.
A Ubiquitous Affordance I would support is to bring the outside in the learning environment. Let's ask students to make a weekly video of what they do inside and outside the school and guide them to practice critical reflections on their production; before recording the next video.
As they create a journal, to share or not, they access the opportunity to develop so many skills in defining their values and beliefs, building self-awareness and self-confidence, and give them the tools to grow (Mezirow, 1990). Most students have access to a mobile phone, have watched videos from websites, some will require support from their peers.

 

 

Mezirow, J. 1990. How critical reflection triggers transformative learning. In pages 1-20 of J. Mezirow (Ed). Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Fransisco.