Week Nine. Task One.
Wegner's theories on Communities of Practice are mainly about ideology. Groups of individuals grouped together with a shared ideology. With students, there are many shared ideology, the thirst and interest in learning is one of them.
Prensky believes in a "digital divide" between digital natives and immigrants, and this can be applied to education. As traditionally, the adult lecturers are immigrants and may struggle adjusting to the technology, as well as its relevance to the students they teach.
The students are able to learn and communicate digitally, through their knowledge and interest in social networking, msn and so on. These students can also research in their own time through different mediums. This makes the digital divide obvious and large between students and lecturers/teachers.
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Although i agree with the concept of "digital divide" between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," do you not think that he doesn't take into account that are the older generation that although they weren't born into the digital ages are more knowledgeable they say myself. Take my dad he know more about computers than i ever will, do you think this closes this digital divide slightly?
ReplyDeleteHe might know more about computers but do you think he still processes info the 'old' way? Reading everything in a linear way as apposed to hopping about from here to there in a quick non-linear way? Or has he learnt to do things that way? Quite possible (i think) as prensky talks of how brains can change throughout life depending on the stimulation they recieve.
ReplyDeleteI think Lauren that your dad will still retain his "accent", even if it seems he knows more about technology than you.
ReplyDeleteI think you need to go back to Wenger, this seems a very strange summary of his work to me.
ReplyDeleteHe writes about practice-oriented groups that form almost despite organisational ignorance of their need -and certainly without management's awareness. This hidden nature seems key to the issue of hyper-connected 'secret' learning groups.