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Brrr…her er lit kald

jakovela — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:01:13 +0000

Desverre har jeg ikke mulighet til å være med på den siste forelesningen før eksamenen. Jeg håper at dere – Mari, Ingunn, Lena, Ole, Eirik, Aril, Lova bli flink å blogge sine reaksjonen på bloggene slik at jeg kan finne ut mer om oppgaven og eksamenen

Ellers dere må gjerne bruke mine notater hvis dere vil. (ja, det sikkert bedre å bruke wiki for de samendrager som jeg publiserte, men rett og slett vil jeg gjøre det enklest,raskest mulig)

Lykke til med opgavver og snakkes neste onsdag!

Overview of texts

jakovela — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:18:09 +0000

Nr.	Author/Year	Title	Theme
1.	J.H. Murray 1997	Lord Burleigh’s Kiss	Digitale kompetanse
2.	S. Turkle 2004	How Coputers Change the Way We Think	Digitale kompetanse
3.	T. Amstrong 2000	The Foundation of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences	Læringsteori
4.	D.Chandler 1994	The transmission Model of Communication
5.	M.J. Gremmo 1998	Learner autonomy: Defining a new pedagogical relationship
6.	D. Laurillard 2001	A framework for analysis/ Designing teaching materials/ Setting up the learning context
7.	E.Glasersfeld 1991	Radical Constructivism in Mathematics Education. Itroduction
8.	R. Blood 2000	Weblogs: a history and perspective	Web 2.0., Blog ,Wiki
9.	Walker, J. 2005	Weblogs: Learning in Public
10.	A. Ebersbach, G.Markus, R. Heigl 2006	The Wiki Concept
11.	J. Dibbell 1993	Rape in Cyberspace …	Digital kompetanse/ Spillteknologi og læring
12.	J. Feilberg 2001	Samarbeid i virtuelle rom. Problembasert læring ved hjelp av IKT
13.	C. Jopp 2001	Reell læering i virtuell by. Bruk av virtual-reality-omgivelser i (språk-) læringen

Some ideas from Janet H. Murray’s “Lord Burleigh’s Kiss”

jakovela — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:58:55 +0000

If we could someday make holographic adventures as compelling as Lucy Davenprot, would the power of such a vividly realized fantasy world destroy our grip on the actual world (47)?

All the representational arts can be considered dangerously delusional and the more entrancing they are the more disturbing.

The Star Trek story can be seen a fable differentiating humane and meaningful digital storytelling from the dehumanizing illusions that the dystopians warn about (25).

As these utopian and dystopian fictions remind us, we rely on works of fiction, in any medium, to help us understand the world and what it means to be humans.

Learner Autonomy: Defining a New Pedagogical Relationship (by M.J.Gremmo)

jakovela — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:36:31 +0000

What is learner autonomy and what should it be?

The definition for learner autonomy is “the capacity of the learner to learn without being taught”.

Teaching systems are based on the assumption that teaching produces learning. Teachers are experts in two areas. Firstly, they are experts of the subject they teach. Secondly, they are also experts in knowledge transfer. The problematic aspect is the contradiction between the “homogeneity” and “heterogeneous”.

homogeneity is the principle on which teaching is based
heterogeneous means nature of the learning process (no two individuals have the same learning style)

Beliefs about what learning are very much influenced by the way learners have been to make to learn, and these beliefs then influence the way they should learn.

SDLS- self-directed learning schemes are taking learner autonomy as a starting point. Learner autonomy is seen a capacity which must be developed in a dynamic process. Such learners must accept that the development of their linguistic competence is linked to the development of their learning competence.

M.J. Gremmo introduces the new pedagogical role, which is counsellor (helper, tutor and advisor). The role of the counsellor is to help learners to develop an adequate set of values, ideas and techniques in the fields of language and language learning. They help learners to learn better. Contrary to what is expected of teachers, counsellors are not necessarily experts in the subject. On the other side, counsellors help to develop their learning competence during counselling sessions.

Disadvantages of “new technologies”

Materials that are available are pre-adapted, taking into account the specific characteristics of the group in question, their objectives or their difficulties.
The most multimedia learning materials offer in place of “autonomous work”, work detached from the actual presence of a human teacher.
Even though the new technological media create new authentic resources which represent communicative use of language, it does not provoke better learning.

Good sentences

Learners learn better if they know what they are doing and why they are doing it.

New technology is new for the older generations, but it is not new for younger learners.

The Foundation of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (by T. Armstrong)

jakovela — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:31:18 +0000

A Harvard psychologist Howard Gardener proposes existence of eight basic intelligences in his theory of multiple intelligences (MI). Gardener suggests that intelligence has more to do with the capacity for solving problems and fashioning products in a context-rich naturalistic setting.

Eight Intelligences

Linguistic Intelligence – the capacity to use words effectively, weather orally or in writing
Logical – Mathematical Intelligence – the capacity to use numbers effectively
Spatial Intelligence – the ability to perceive the visual – spatial world accurately and perform transformations on those perceptions
Bodily – Kinesthetic Intelligence – Expertise in using one’s whole body to express ideas and feelings and facility in using one’s hands to produce or transform things.
Musical Intelligence – the capacity to perceive, discriminate, transform and express musical forms
Interpersonal Intelligence – the ability to perceive and make distinctions in the moods, intentions, motivations, and feelings of other people.
Intrapersonal Intelligence – self- knowledge and the ability to act adaptively on the basis of that knowledge.
Naturalist Intelligence –expertise in the recognition and classification of the numerous species –the flora and fauna – of an individual’s environment.

MI theory is a theory of cognitive functioning, and it proposes that each person has capacity in all eight intelligences. Everyone has the capacity to develop all eight intelligences to a reasonably high level of performance if given the appropriate encouragement, enrichment and instruction. Intelligences are always interacting with each other. MI theory emphasizes the rich diversity of ways in which people show their gifts within intelligences as well as between intelligences.

The Transmission Model of Communication (by Daniel Chandler)

jakovela — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:01:25 +0000

The transmissive model of communication is a model which reduces communication to a process of “transmitting information”. It is the best-known example of the “informational” approach to communication.
Chandler in his text describes the model of communication developed by Shannon and Weaver (1949). The model consists of five elements:

an information source (produces a message)
a transmitter ( encodes the message into signals)
a channel (to which signals are adapted for transmission)
a receiver (which reconstructs) the message from the signal.
a destination (where the message arrives)

Noise is a dysfunctional factor (any interference with the message travelling along the channel). My mouth is the transmitter, the signal is the sound waves, and you ear is the receiver.
There are three levels of problems of communication:

the technical problem: how accurately can the message be transmitted
the semantic problem: how precisely is the meaning “covered”
the effectiveness problem: how effectively does the received meaning affects behaviour

Advantages of Shannon and Weaver’s model: simplicity, generality, quantiability.
Disadvantage is that the model is linear, one way model, ascribing a secondary role to the “receiver”, who is seen as absorbing information. Same critics argue that the model improves a communicator’s ability to manipulate a receiver.
This model is based on the human desire to increase the speed and effect of messages as they travel in space. (James Carey)
Alternatives to transmissive models of communication are normally described as constructivist. Such perspectives acknowledge that meaning are actively constructed by moth initiators and interpreters rather than simply “transmmitted”.
Good sentences
Perfectly transparent communication is impossible
The “same” text can be interpreted quite differently within different contexts.

Weblogs: Learning in Public (by Jill Walker)

jakovela — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:21:58 +0000

Weblogs provide a chance for students to experience writing in a public space where their work can have real value both their classmates and for a wider community. How?

Blogging is a good way of practicing writing
Blogging helps to discover new way of writing
Blogging helps to realize and express your opinion
Blogging helps to take over control of your own learning
Blogging helps to find your own voice
Blogging is about responding to the world around you and listening to the responses you receive in return
When you write tutorials for others, it gives you possibility to learn and understand the subject deeper.
Blogging helps to learn how to connect to the ideas of others while being explicit about the connections between your and others opinions

Interesting sentences

This is not a game. Performing in public means performing with real people, who has real feelings and real lives.

Blogging do not suit everybody’s needs.

Between Human Rights and “Cash Back”

jakovela — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:07:40 +0000

This year the Rafto Prize was given to the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights. For their brave struggle to prompted alit rights and for its emphasis on recognizing that the oppression resulting from caste prejudice is a serious violation of international human rights.
The National Campaign on Dalit Human Right was established in 1998 as a large coalition of Dalit organizations, human right activists and academics. They are all determined to address the issue of caste-based discrimination within a human rights perspective, and to protect and promote the rights of Dalits.
After the Rafto Prize giving ceremony on Sunday I saw the movie. The name is “Cash Back”. The movie was one of the nicest I have seen lately. Together with love, money and boredom the film basically was about stopping the time. The brightest thought I remember from the movie is:

“You can speed it up, you can slow it down, you can even freeze a moment, but you cannot stop time. You can’t delete when it’s done”.

How Computers Change the Way We Think (by Sherry Turkle)

jakovela — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:33:44 +0000

The chairman of a parliamentary session opens a meeting by declaring it closed. Freud interpreters such error as revealing a person’s mixed emotions. My experience on slips of the tongue is quite similar to the chairman. In the first meeting with the important person my response to his “welcome” is exactly the same word “welcome”. Even though my answer should have been most probably ”thank you” my tongue produced the sounds inappropriate to this situation. Personally I sympathize with Freud’s idea of mixed emotions because in that moment I felt excited, nervous and confused.
Sherry Turkle argues that the mind is computer. She explains “open” and “closed” are designed by the same symbols, separated by sign for opposition. ”Closed” equals “minus open” in the chairman’s case, but I just wander – what is the “minus of welcome”?
Just the highlighted lines in the text:
What the computer is doing for us and what it is doing to us.

We are learning new ways to think about what it means know and understand.
The contested terrain is a field of struggle between competing definitions of benefits and restrictions of changes in thinking.
Thinking about privacy
Save space the personal experimentation that is so crucial for adolescent development (avatar or a self)
In expressing multiple aspects of self may find it harder to develop authentic selves.
Information technology has made it possible to have the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
It is possible to manipulate text on a computer screen and see now it looks faster than we can think about what the words mean. (Word processing vs thinking)
Can make dedicated students into better writers.
Can make bad writers even worse.
Taking things at interface value – when people say that something is transparent, they mean that they can see how to make it work, not that they know how it works.
Computer environment puts users in worlds based on constrained choices. In computer word you experience life as a reassuring dichotomy of scary and safe.
Good sentences
We live in a culture of simulation.
The idea of thinking ahead has become exotic.
Might be useful
The journalist’s traditional questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how.

1. who wrote these words?

2. what is their message?

3. why were they written?

4. how are they situated in time and place, politically and socially?

Hei!

jakovela — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:28:53 +0000

Vet ikke hvor jeg skal begynne…(ja, for statistikkens skyld må jeg jo endelig begynne å blogge). Ellers er jeg en person som liker å skrive, men liker ikke å skrive hvis jeg bare må skrive noen, meningen i teksten er viktig for meg. Jeg er heller ingen stor fan av å skrive dagbok men det sikkert er sant at ”blogging is a good way of practicing writing and expressing personal opinion”.
Kanskje litt seint, men bedre seint enn aldri, så skal jeg introdusere meg. Jeg heter Anda og er student ved Universitetet i Bergen. Som de fleste i klassen HUIN102 går jeg på språk og informasjon. Som de færreste i klassen er jeg fra Latvia og mitt morsmål er latvisk, så beklager overfor mine medstudenter hvis min norsk høres litt fremmed ut. I tillegg kommer jeg å skrive på engelsk.
Etter all min skepsis er jeg likevel positiv, fordi jeg tenkte å bruke blogen som min grønne notatbok. Tenkte å oppsummere og analysere tekster som forberedelse for eksamen.