It has sent me searching the web for information, especially about the concept of the global village which seems to have been around forever. I cam across an interesting interview of Marshall McLuhan, the man who originally coined the phrase, back in the 1960s. It was amazing how relevant his comments still are today - the movement from the individual 'Renaissance Man' of the book to the tribe. Current research looks at collective intelligence, and collaboration!
Monday, September 26, 2011
Wikpedia assignment
After my reflections on wikipedia as a teaching tool, I was very pleased to see it as one of the prescribed texts for the senior English syllabus. So my next assignment is looking at Wikipedia as part of the module Texts and Society, and the elective, The Global Village.
It has sent me searching the web for information, especially about the concept of the global village which seems to have been around forever. I cam across an interesting interview of Marshall McLuhan, the man who originally coined the phrase, back in the 1960s. It was amazing how relevant his comments still are today - the movement from the individual 'Renaissance Man' of the book to the tribe. Current research looks at collective intelligence, and collaboration!
It has sent me searching the web for information, especially about the concept of the global village which seems to have been around forever. I cam across an interesting interview of Marshall McLuhan, the man who originally coined the phrase, back in the 1960s. It was amazing how relevant his comments still are today - the movement from the individual 'Renaissance Man' of the book to the tribe. Current research looks at collective intelligence, and collaboration!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Musings
One assignment down, and another looming...and September is here. So off to the workshop in Shanghai next week!
Thinking about Wikipedia and why so many teachers are against student's using it; how we should be using it to teach our students to think critically; about the theoretical pedagogical frameworks such as Media Literacies that support this type of literacy.
Thinking about Wikipedia and why so many teachers are against student's using it; how we should be using it to teach our students to think critically; about the theoretical pedagogical frameworks such as Media Literacies that support this type of literacy.
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