EDLD 5398ET - Week 2.3 Reflection for EDLD 5362 Information Systems Management

Week 2 Assignment, Part 2.3: Reflections on Course-Embedded Assignments for EDLD 5362 Information Systems Management as shown in the Internship Handbook, Course-Embedded Assignment document in the Resource section of the course.


Learners of today are becoming technological driven each day. Roles of teachers and learners must change (Texas Education Agency, 2001). Teachers need to understand how to implement this growing trend of collaboration and communication to their students. Technology media outcomes such as Web 2.0 are align with the common applications of blogs, video sharing, podcasting, and social networking which is a more socially connective media source where students can contribute as much as they can consume. Technology can also address the social dimension of learning by supporting not merely cooperation but also collaboration (Bose, 2010).

In this week’s reading, I’ve learned that Web 2.0 has a huge globally impact on people. People are becoming immersive captivated with using the Web to collaborate with their friends and family on a daily basis. Thereby, education institutions have taken advantage of the use of using Web 2.0 technology service to innovate their online classroom, library, and other data sources. One of the biggest growth areas in multimedia sharing are videos, podcasting, and photograph sharing. This development has been made possible through the widespread of digital technology such as hand held cameras, wireless devices such as cell phones that are equipped with video cam, and the Internet for real-time data usage.

Now that the horse and wagon days are long gone, the Internet has become a dominant force in the way world collaborate and communicate. Klamma et. Al (2007) also requires teacher’s interventions in collaborative learning. They further noted that in a Web 2.0 vision, the web is created by those who participate in it. Nonetheless, I think that teaching with Web 2.0 is a far better platform for collaboration in sharing ideas as a way to interact with student – to –student, student –to-teacher, and colleague-to-colleague. The social aspects of the Webs connectedness are becoming increasingly important to the way we communicate and learn.

References

Bose, S. (2010). Learning Collaboratively with Web 2.0 Technologies: Putting into Action Social Constructivism. Online Submission

Klamma, R., Chatti, M.A., Duval, E., Hummel, H., Hvannberg, E.H., Kravcik, M., Law, E., Naeve, A., & Scott, P. (2007). Social Software for Life-long Learning. Educational Technology & Society, 10(3), 72-83.

Texas Education Agency, A.v. (2001). Texas Star Chart: A Tool For Planning and Assessing School Technology and Readiness Aligned With The Texas Long-Range Plan For Technology. Educational Technology Advisor Committee [e-book]. 2001. Available From: ERIC, Ipswich, MA. Accessed January 29, 2012