It is under hot discussion whether there is new way of learning.
At the beginning of March, CITE of HKU organized a 3-day Research Symposium: Learning Communities and Technology. On the second day eight presenters gave various speech about using Web2.0 for teaching and learning activities. The Q&A time raised a hot debate on whether there is a new way of learning. Of course, all Web2.0 is about user generated knowledge rather than knowledge transmission. It will of course trigger a lot of disucssion as most of the teachers in HK get used to tradition instructional approach, using web2.0 for knowledge construction is out of their comfort zone.
Yesterday, Prof Nicola Yelland gave a speech in my Institute on topic about "Critical issues for learning in the 21st Century: Multiliteracies, new technologies and knowledge building". Nicola also touched on the issue about new way of learning. Our education system is mainly developed for industrial age, should we consider to change our education system to fit for the new technological age. Nicola proposed that the curriculum should be shifted to knowledge generation under the digital technology trend. She also mentioned Literacy, Literacies and Multilieracies proposed by New London Group. Today kids are quite different as before and a new multimodality re-mix culture is emerging.
Of course, after the presentation, there was some debate on the new way of learning. Some academics insisted that traditional literacy should still be the main learning objective.
The debate will keep on though digital age has been developed far from we could re-think. To my opinion, 21st Century skills have proposed the essential skills for a digital society, though no concrete assessment to 21st Century skills have been proposed.
At the beginning of March, CITE of HKU organized a 3-day Research Symposium: Learning Communities and Technology. On the second day eight presenters gave various speech about using Web2.0 for teaching and learning activities. The Q&A time raised a hot debate on whether there is a new way of learning. Of course, all Web2.0 is about user generated knowledge rather than knowledge transmission. It will of course trigger a lot of disucssion as most of the teachers in HK get used to tradition instructional approach, using web2.0 for knowledge construction is out of their comfort zone.
Yesterday, Prof Nicola Yelland gave a speech in my Institute on topic about "Critical issues for learning in the 21st Century: Multiliteracies, new technologies and knowledge building". Nicola also touched on the issue about new way of learning. Our education system is mainly developed for industrial age, should we consider to change our education system to fit for the new technological age. Nicola proposed that the curriculum should be shifted to knowledge generation under the digital technology trend. She also mentioned Literacy, Literacies and Multilieracies proposed by New London Group. Today kids are quite different as before and a new multimodality re-mix culture is emerging.
Of course, after the presentation, there was some debate on the new way of learning. Some academics insisted that traditional literacy should still be the main learning objective.
The debate will keep on though digital age has been developed far from we could re-think. To my opinion, 21st Century skills have proposed the essential skills for a digital society, though no concrete assessment to 21st Century skills have been proposed.
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