Posts: Interactions online
Interactions are very important online. Discussion Posts serve as the main way for asynchronous communication between students. Here is an example of a reply from my preceeding post on Culture, Technology, and Religion.
Subject: Re:Culture, Technology and Religion Topic: Module 9: Favorite Questions
Author: Leslie Dawes Date: July 21, 2011 8:55 AM
Hi Irene,
Thanks for your reply. I like how you summed up what you think the future of religion and technology should be. You wrote,” We try to save lives, or improve the quality of lives, that is what religion should be about I think, and what technology should be used for.”
Perhaps that should be a curriculum focus in our pedagogy. In Dr. Feng’s paper about “Contribution of Quotidian Pedagogy to Environmental Education: Revisiting Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Nature in Technological Culture,” he comments that ,” reviving existentialism in education (Feng, 2004), by valuing our position as limited, caring beings, for whom meaning and compassion need to be infused with pedagogy.”
Teaching students that accountability and responsibility is important when using any technologies. Ethics and how we engage students with technology needs to be part of the equation. Students are our future leaders and they need to be prepared for the challenges of the world in the years to come.
Leslie
Reference:
Feng,F. (2005). Contribution of Quotidian Pedagogy to Environmental Education: Revisiting Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Nature in Technological Culture, Paper presented at AERA, Ecological and Environmental Education SIG, Montreal, Canada.