The introduction of mobile devices to the institution could mean that students have the potential to be connected to their work at anytime. Whilst this can be seem like a good thing, it also has the potential to make a situation where students are unable to detach themselves from their work.
This would add additional pressure to students in terms of feeling that they need to keep up with what is going on online. With people having the option to log on anytime and anywhere collaborative learning situations such as discussion forums can move on really fast it would be easy to miss important collaborative opportunities and discussions.
I do not think this is a healthy learning situation for young students who need to keep a balance between studying and other areas of their lives.
Sarah Dawson
Student Representative
Score so far: 4 - 0 to the Antis.
ReplyDeleteThe Pros have not turned up to this football match as yet!
best,
Willi
However, as the referee, I have decided to deduct points for bad spelling. The Antis have so far mis-spelt 'argument' 4 times.
ReplyDelete4 points deducted levels the score at 0 - 0.
I looked at that and thought it looked wrong, then realised they were all the same! Managed to fix it! :o)
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ReplyDeleteSurely that counts in our favour?!?! It must prove something about an over reliance on technologies and especially blogs and forums that don't have spell checkers (darn!) could be detrimental to students spelling and grammar!! If we blur the boundaries between the formal and informal use of these technologies then the same language and style could also come across and ppl mite use the spellin that they R used 2 in those areas!!!! L8R ;-)
ReplyDeleteStudents are online 24/7 already - maybe if they can access their coursework this way, they may use some of the time they spend texting each other actually talking about their work! It has the potential to foster greater interest and genuine conversation and collaboration about their studies - make it more relevant to their lives, not something that is separate and only happens when they're on campus. Kids need to learn how to manage all these facets of their time, so this is a chance to develop an important life skill. I see the point you raise as supporting the FOR argument!
ReplyDeleteAs for the spelling issue - you are all mature-age folk who can't blame technology for poor spelling!
I can however, blame the copy and paste technology for the repeated spelling error, and the technology of spell check that doesn't check titles, talk about doing half a job! :o)
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