Reflection on MEDD 6024

To me, the chief learning priority of Teaching and learning with Information Technology should be the enhanced ability of students to manage knowledge, in a technological world that effective education should connect knowledge across fields and age levels instead of segmenting it particularly in higher education setting. The learning experience we gained throughout the eight lessons provided us an important e-learning platform that can be woven into the fabric of classroom-based education; this is better to cultivate connection and collaboration between students and teachers. To this end, it helps to transform the classroom into knowledge rooms that was shown in our digital portfolio – blog presentation and the collective contribution of knowledge management via RISAL upon completion of the course. I think this is an important process to build an infrastructure and horizons for depth education beyond just the provision of virtual classroom.


Another aspect in learning, we achieved, is the ability to solve problems that students can learn in any setting. I think learning objects and cognitive/mind tools provide us the learning strategies for provoking higher order of thinking and problem solving. Students are engaged into understanding processes and search processes that facilitate us to define and represent the problem, explore possible strategies, acting on them and evaluating the effects. To this end, students can achieve learning by continuous practicing, trial and error, doing and reviewing, as well as when the students is supported through interactive learning environments such as the experimental classroom to engage learners in critical thinking and support how to learn to solve different kinds of problems.



Last but not the least, is the role of teacher, who should be able to empower diverse learners to connect, communicate, collaborate and create in an interactive technology-rich environment.



Regina Chan