May 31 2009
Final written task for EMT1
To access my final task for EMT1 on reflections of the group process please go to:
http://tatiloz.edublogs.org/assessment-2-task-2/
Happy reading!
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May 09 2009
Group work
Some initial thoughts on group work ..
Group work is something we can’t avoid in life – either in formal learning, at work, in community, and many other areas. Yet, it is something that is difficult, complex, and very challenging. There is much literature on group development and dynamics, some of which I have studied as part of my postgraduate studies, but when it comes to it knowing the theory does not make much difference to the participation and negotiation involved in group work.
I think group work highlights that social learning is very complex as it involves a group of diverse people coming together to achieve a learning outcome – each with a different approach, learning style, learning objectives, level of knowledge, and commitment to the learning process. Working with such diversity requires good communication skills, awareness of power structures, and an ability to be self-reflective and open to challenging one’s own attitudes and habits.
I think group work truley challenges us to work with diversity and even though it is something that we can easily say we practice it is actually very difficult to do in a fair and just fashion. There is the needs to truly share and let go of the need to control the learning process and see that there is learning in the process that is highly valuable.
To be truly inclusive in group work is difficult in an assessment context if one if fixed on a particular outcome rather than the process.
May 09 2009
Trying something new
I thought I might try something new on my blog by using it to express general thoughts/relfections on my learning process because now that I am reading more blogs and the educaitonal rationale behind them as an educational tool I see that their role can be infinite and can include a kind of journal-like record of everyday experiences like those I am having in EMT1.
I must say that I have often felt frustrated during this course and I think it is because so much of what I am learning is new in a technological sense and its taking to areas where I do not feel very confident yet. I guess in some ways I am having some disorienting dilemmas as Mezirow would say about my attitudes towards technology and its uses in every day life and now in learning.
When I started EMT1 I was open to the fact that I wanted to to learn about technologies that I really should already know about but I did not think that I it would be so confronting. I see my self as being a fairly resourcesful person when it comes to academic research in terms of my post grad studies but I am not sure what happens when it comes to new technology? My resourcefulness seems to vanish and instead I feel angry and frustrated because I don’t know where to start looking or its almost as if I don’t even start looking and just keep trying the same thing over and over again.
I am having such an experience in trying to work out how a wiki works and how I can create a story board within a wiki. I was nervous about wikis because I had not used them before and then once in there I feel lost and unsure of which way to navigate in there and create what I would like to create. In other contexts I would search for an answer but in this context I freeze and get stuck – I ask my self why is it so different in this context?
My patience goes out the window and and I want the answer now! which is not how it works – I think it takes patience and searching for help and guidance. In terms if learning I think I have some king of phobia perhaps about technology that makes me closed to it and hence the attitude of being perhaps somewhat dismissive of it. This work that I am doing in EMT1 makes me challenge that and hence the disorienting dilemma which if I am open to the learning process could result in transformative learning – but am I truly open to that?
That’s why I am thinking of trying something new and doing some search into how to work with wikis and give it my all so that I can learn from this experience.
Apr 29 2009
Assessment 1 Task 2
This assessment piece which analyses my learning experiences on the Freire Project is available at:
http://tatiloz.edublogs.org/assessment-1-task-2/
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Mar 26 2009
First assessment task
I am very glad to have found such a fantastic ecommunity to join for the first assessment task in this subject.
URL for the assessment piece see page title Assessment 1 Task 1 at http://tatiloz.edublogs.org/ or visit http://tatiloz.edublogs.org/assessment-1-task-1/
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