lunes, 6 de octubre de 2008


Aprendizaje Sobre Redes y Mediaciones Pedagògicas


Mi aprendizaje con respecto a las redes y mediaciones pedagògicas ha sido muy significativo, he aprendido rotunda importancia de conocer sobre este tema en la actualidad y la aplicabilidad que tiene tambien en diferentes campos del desarrollo industrial.
Entre los temas que mas me han gustado están los relacionados los tipos de redes que existen a nivel tecnológico, creaciones de blogs en los cuales se pueden compartir ideas, pensamientos,etc con diferentes personas a nivel mundial.
Estos conocimientos pueden ser aplicados en futuros proyectos universitarios con el fin de compartir los trabajos que realizamos a nivel del aula de clases e incluso fuera de ésta.

Emergent Learning:Social Networks and Learning Networks

What social networking - and online learning - shouldn't be
When you spend $50 million on e-learning, you expect results. That's not what happened in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which purchased Pearson Education's Waterford Early Reading Program four years ago only to find after a study that the software didn't help, and sometimes hindered, student learning. But as a Pearson spokesperson says, "The findings confirmed what we already knew: you have to turn it on to have an impact." According to studies, teachers didn't have enough time for the computer program because they had to cover a reading curriculum introduced by the district a year before.

Bill Williams forwards this item from last October; it is a description of Scotland's Edinburgh's Interactive University (IU) which, over the past 18 months, "has attracted 75,000 students from more than 23 countries. In sharp contrast to the failure of its English counterpart, UkeU, which had signed up only 900 students when it was scrapped in June, the IU has seen a 75% increase in student numbers over the past year." The differences? The article highlights the personal contact between students and teachers, the ability of students to learn at their own pace, and IU's non-profit structure.
I understand why someone would say this: "To increase the sustainability of portal projects there is a need to 'work towards establishing common frameworks that will enable applications and services, from different sources, to work together.'" After all, it is precisely that failure that accounts for the indifferent success of community portals, the 'field of dreams' scenario, where you build it, and they do not come. But such an enterprise is perhaps best compared with constructing an artificial language: sure, it would make communication easier if evereyone used the standard - but who speaks Esperanto? The growth of community - and hence, community frameworks - is much more organic than that, a product of multiple simultaneous negotiations to create a network of compatible systems rather than a centralized planning department to create a structure.