FUTURE LEARNING TOOL WITH NO COST
For the last few weeks, we′ve been discussing some of the (im)possibilities of online learning and working with novel tools in learning spaces, a conversation that is perhaps particularly required given the learning circumstances that we find ourselves in. Specifically, we’ve entered into a consideration of some of the tools and spaces that people have established, developed, and organised to both (a) meet the needs of people moving online and working across vast distances and; (b) support new ways of learning that can enhance or change some of the fundamental ideas about what a medium of learning can look like (beyond, for example, a whiteboard or reading focused pedagogy). However, at the same time, these technologies are never perfect, fraught as they are by different problems: cost, capacity (whether technological or knowledge), and discomforts with using new technologies in educational spaces resistant to change. Your task in this question is to engage in some imaginative thinking, to create something that works for you. Cost is no issue here and you are to imagine that the space you are teaching in is receptive to your use of the technology. In this respect, assume no financial hurdles that need to be cleared nor any resistance to its introduction (ie. assume everyone is on board). Here, then, your task is to either (a) outline an online space (either by adapting one that already exists or imagining one from scratch) that could work for you as an educator and explain how it can be made to accommodate or address some of the real challenges that are discussed in class and/or in the readings or; (b) consider a digital tool that we haven’t discussed and provide a desсrіption of how it could be used to transform teaching and learning while, as with before, accommodating some of the challenges discussed in the readings and/or in class discussions. For Reference (From the Subject Outline) This task will involve you responding to discussions questions made available every four weeks. For each question, you are expected to do the following in approximately 500 words: You are not required todraw on every idea (indeed, this will likely dilute the strength of theargument) but rather, you are asked to demonstrate a broad awareness of whathas been discussed. These will be designed in such a way that no clear or “right” answer is beingsought but rather, what is being looked for is a well formed and insightfulinterpretation/position.