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Meaning learning happens in practice, like you say. So it is our role, as educators to inspire new practices and help our students reflect about the reasons while we are doing so.
Kids know how to use computers, connect to the internet, create accounts in Social Network Sites, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they know how to use the web for learning. That is a totally different game. And the way forward is to guide them in effective practices. Engaging them in learning activities related to what they have to learn in class, in which they have to use the web to effectively achieve the challenges the teachers put forward seems to be a way forward.

Thanks for sharing

“El saber en la actualidad se extrae de un individuo en permanente circulación” (Deleuze)

Entonces, Si la idea es usar medios nuevos con una mentalidad antigua, seguiremos sin aprovechar la enorme cantidad de herramientas tecnológicas que tenemos a nuestra disposición.
¿Por qué muchas veces el aula y el mundo real no se parecen en nada? ¿Por qué muchos de nuestros alumnos usan las Ntics para comunicarse entre ellos y no para aprender?
Siendo que uno de los pilares de la educación es la comunicación ¿No es extraño que suceda esto?
Aprender es construir conocimiento. La tecnología actual permite comunicar, gestionarlo de una manera antes impensada.

Gracias por pensar conmigo
Mariana

Hello everyone,
I’m from Argentina, my native language is Spanish, so opinaré using both languages.
In a revolutionary way technological innovations change the reality and new perspectives. The key words are: development, rearrangement, adaptation, knowledge, creativity, innovation, wisdom, among others …

“Knowledge today is extracted from an individual in constant movement” (Deleuze)

Then, if the idea is to use new media with an old mentality, we will not use the enormous amount of technological tools at our disposal.
Why often the classroom and the real world do not look like anything? Why do so many of our students use ICTs to communicate among themselves and not to learn?
Being one of the pillars of education is communication is not that strange to happen?
Learning is constructing knowledge. Current technology allows to communicate, manage it in a way previously unthinkable.

Thank you for considering me
Mariana

We need to help individuals (and I am not only going to focus on your target group: pupils, but learners in general) in using these tools to their on learning advantage. And again the role of learning technologist and the educators in general becomes crucial. We are not to be replaced, but our role is to change. We have a critical role in instigating critical thinking and practice, encouraging collaboration and mentoring our learners abouts effective ways in which the web can be used to learn, foster their own personal learning networks and develop a reputable identity.

These days everyone is using the web. Some use it as a reference book (just another way of accessing information), some use it to connect to their friends, but only few are using it as a new context to learning, where knowledge can be develops socially, informally and in community.
As danah boyd refers in her phd research youth uses Social Networks Sites to socialise, not to network! That is the area we need to taccle… how to foster networked and communal learning effectively. There is a lot to be done there. First we need to prepare our educators so the can prepare the learners.

Humans are naturally a gregarious species, and social interaction is incredibly seductive and absorbing such that we all need to be able to self moderate. With the web, our tribes have effectively exploded in size and our inherent drive to form and maintain the social links that are the necessary cohesive force to sustain those tribes can go into melt down, with a feeling that we need to socially stroke so many people that it is impossible to sustain.

Is this something that can be taught or does it have to be learned? Do we need to guide youngsters through early experiences of ‘social web overload’ to embed the problems viccerally by experiencing the problems themselves, or can most people be advised of the issues and coping strategies to avoid having to experience it themselves?

Is it even something any of us really learn or do we just repeatedly bounce off the limits of our own abilities to maintain extended social networks? Eg building larger networks until we reach a point of overload and then back off to a ‘core’ network before repeating again?