My dear colleague Ms. Ivana Brasic agreed to have me as her mentor for 23 things PD next year.
I look forward to working with her and I'll do my best not just to show her how things work, but to have her actively use these tools for her work in the future.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Reflections on 23 things
I remembered one TV comic show where a young guy asks his "nerd" younger brother to teach him to become a ".com" millionaire. He says "I don't wanna loose to much time, so just show me where is the "dot button", and where is the "com button". :)))
Well, I felt like I knew a lots of things before this course, and I thought it would be this easy as this guy did. Well, it wasn't so easy, and I realized how much I didn't know. The whole new world of sharing and getting usefull information opened to me thanks to this PD. I intend to use it as best as possible, and to show what I know now to other people. (I already have two friends who would like to benefit from my knowledge :))
I can say that in a way I am a .com millionaire, since I am so much reacher now with the knowledge from the web that I obtained and will get (and share) in times to come. :)
Thanks Jennie!
Well, I felt like I knew a lots of things before this course, and I thought it would be this easy as this guy did. Well, it wasn't so easy, and I realized how much I didn't know. The whole new world of sharing and getting usefull information opened to me thanks to this PD. I intend to use it as best as possible, and to show what I know now to other people. (I already have two friends who would like to benefit from my knowledge :))
I can say that in a way I am a .com millionaire, since I am so much reacher now with the knowledge from the web that I obtained and will get (and share) in times to come. :)
Thanks Jennie!
Comment on Mark Federman's lecture
http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Full_20081129_834108_MarkFederman
Very nice and interesting lecture. Good points of view presented in an appealing and charming way.
But watching again the video of Mark Federman's lecture, I couldn't help feeling sad and a bit angry about the education system in my country... The other day I talked to my friend who has just finished her studies of Russian language, I remembered this lecture and realized just how light years away we are from what this man is talking about. Not only that we are not encouraged to explore the possiblities of education through sharing and connecting, it seems that our educators try to prevent us from expanding our knowledge. Being narrow-minded (which is one thing educator must certanlly not be), they transfer their inertness to their students as well. I don't know how the new generations deal with this, but mine didn't benefit from that. We seem to be the "middle generation", we were not taught to think critically, we were demanded only to repeat what they dictated us on the lectures. Year after year they would deliver their lectures in the same way, not even bothering to change something...
I may sound bitter, but I can't help wondering, if my working environment hasn't been such as it is, would I ever discover this whole new world of opportunities on my own? Would it ever occur to me to search information on the web the ways I do now? I look at my friends, and I am the most PC literate of them all... Why is that so? They have computers, but they don't know how to use them in their full potential. Nobody showed them. My friend told me that she learned from her colleague about russian web sites she can use. God forbid that they were given that information on the actual lecture by the professors. And it didn't occure to her to try and find them herself. Now that she knows, she searches and finds stuff with no problems at all. The whole new world that she didn't know exsisted, opens to her now.
There's no Serbia on iTunes... How long will it pass until our Universities see as a perfect natural thing to put their lectures on iTunes U? I don't know...
Anyway, I did enjoy Mark's lecture (even though it was a bit long :)), and I am happy to know there are so many possibilities of learning which we can use better then ever before, as a life-long learners should :)
Very nice and interesting lecture. Good points of view presented in an appealing and charming way.
But watching again the video of Mark Federman's lecture, I couldn't help feeling sad and a bit angry about the education system in my country... The other day I talked to my friend who has just finished her studies of Russian language, I remembered this lecture and realized just how light years away we are from what this man is talking about. Not only that we are not encouraged to explore the possiblities of education through sharing and connecting, it seems that our educators try to prevent us from expanding our knowledge. Being narrow-minded (which is one thing educator must certanlly not be), they transfer their inertness to their students as well. I don't know how the new generations deal with this, but mine didn't benefit from that. We seem to be the "middle generation", we were not taught to think critically, we were demanded only to repeat what they dictated us on the lectures. Year after year they would deliver their lectures in the same way, not even bothering to change something...
I may sound bitter, but I can't help wondering, if my working environment hasn't been such as it is, would I ever discover this whole new world of opportunities on my own? Would it ever occur to me to search information on the web the ways I do now? I look at my friends, and I am the most PC literate of them all... Why is that so? They have computers, but they don't know how to use them in their full potential. Nobody showed them. My friend told me that she learned from her colleague about russian web sites she can use. God forbid that they were given that information on the actual lecture by the professors. And it didn't occure to her to try and find them herself. Now that she knows, she searches and finds stuff with no problems at all. The whole new world that she didn't know exsisted, opens to her now.
There's no Serbia on iTunes... How long will it pass until our Universities see as a perfect natural thing to put their lectures on iTunes U? I don't know...
Anyway, I did enjoy Mark's lecture (even though it was a bit long :)), and I am happy to know there are so many possibilities of learning which we can use better then ever before, as a life-long learners should :)
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