As an adult student who is quite technologically literate, I found trying to manage multiple digital interfaces in the design challenge quite confusing. I felt that the online collaboration, recording and blogging requirements were too strenuous and took away from my enjoyment of the design process. In an attempt to avoid this as a future educator, I would probably have the students working collaboratively with a project book (this would have ideas, research, designs, adjusted designs, trial notes, etc. just like a wiki would) and still have them using a blog for personal reflections. This is because I find a group of students will engage more in collaboration face-to-face which is a notion supported by Johnson and Johnson (1999, as cited in Brady, 2006, p.126). While I am not intending to use wikis, I do feel the need to incorporate the use of blogs as they are powerful digital tools that “allow learners to define their own spaces and to prepopulate them with words and media of their choosing” (Caldwell & Honeyford, 2015, p. 24).
References
Brady, L. (2006). Collaborative
learning in action. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia.
Caldwell, H. & Honeyford, G. (2015). Blogging to support digital
literacy in schools and universities. In S. Younie, M. Leask & K. Burden
(Eds.),Teaching and learning with ICT in
the primary school (2nd ed., pp. 24-38). New York, NY: Routledge.
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