Digital Immigration - article 5
This article deals with the various ways universities could adapt their teaching so to adjust to the digital native way of learning which involves more computer based and visual teaching. The article includes a lot of data and how it gained this data through numerous different methods. There was a survey carried out on IT teachers in eight universities in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe to explore their ways of coping with large group teaching and the development of digital learning.
The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of various teaching methods in similar IT teaching faculties around the world. Interviewees were selected through web-based research to identify the most comparable teaching departments from various universities locally, nationally and internationally. In telephone interviews many of the respondents reported on their use of the Internet for teaching and managing large groups but none mentioned the use of mobile learning as a method of teaching. This article argues that mobile devices such as the video iPod, 3G phones and PDAs have the potential to revolutionise the teaching experiences of the 21st century students and the digital natives of this generation. I think this is an exciting study as it shows how teachers across the world are creating new innovative ideas to help identify with digital native students and how to teach them better.
3 comments:
this looks like an interesting website, but i thought that 3G video phones hadnt taken off as quickly as people had hoped, i know that im not really interested in being able to see the person that i am talking to on the phone, it seems a little to strange still. but i suppose there is new technology such as skype which has taken off. I still dont know whetehr i like it though.
Whats skype av never even heard of the at? yeah i don't think would like the fact the i could see the person i was talkin to and they could see me.
Lauren,
This seems to be a reasonably global study, so one would presume its findings aren't too generalized? It looks as though you are viewing the idea of new ways of teaching positively.
It's an interesting discussion has taken place as a result of your original post.
All the best
Emma
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