Ranvir Bahl – Learning Portfolio

I really enjoyed doing this project discourse with my colleagues Janet and Janice. I set up a website on Weebly and here is a link to our project work.

Here are some pearls of wisdom from Dr. Zhao’s presentation that I found valuable:

• Reflecting on Winston Churchil’s quote “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us”, we build educational technologies and thereafter the tools change the ecology in our teaching and learning environment.
• Reflecting on the sci-fi movie “Matrix”, he says  “Never send a man (person) to do a machine’s job”. All technologies and human beings should complement each other rather than replace them. We need to find the functional niche… what should teachers do and what should computers do in the teaching process.
• Reflecting on Henry Ford’s first car that was developed to reduce horse wagon congestion on roads, he questions whether the road congestion has decreased in all these years?
• “We tend to overestimate the short term effects and underestimate the long term effects of innovations” – Betram (Chip) Bruce Computers that were once a solution to a problem are now a problem seeking solution! We need to focus on multiple, digital literacy now and figure new ways to reach out to students.
• Focus on – developing teaching and learning networks; sometimes no change is very efficient rather keep changing learning modalities; PD for teachers should be activities where teachers can ‘play’ with computers; lots of technology uses are forced uses which may not be required; computers should be treated as part of our pedagogical ecology.

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