I woke up this morning thinking about tags.
Aside from the fact that tags are things which hang off the collar of your shirt, tags - in the world of the web - are used by people who create content (text on web-pages, blogs, media etc) and they are used to bring these like items together. The tag system is at its finest form on delicious where they have even gone a step further and created bundles (a way of creating uber categories for your tags) but you can also find them on youtube, slideshare and just about any web 2.0 website.
Examples of tags include the blue labels at the top of this and all my posting - they're there so that if you want to find another blog entry which is similar then all you have to do is click on one of those and travel around.
But I'm getting distracted.
Back to my point, the reason for writing this post:: I really, really, really, hate the term blended learning.
It doesn't say anything to me - a blended what? A mix of... oh man, what does that mean exactly? Are we talking about mixing skills or are we talking about mixing styles... I mean if I use a tape-recorder instead of my smartphone to listen to an audio recording then I'm now not blending? Why is that device any different to any other device.... And how exactly do I tag that in my posts - using the keywords blended+learning? Nah, don't like it. I just can't do it anymore, I simply cannot get my fingers to type this phrase nor to make my mouth to move that way. In fact I can't even get my head around it.
I even looked it up on wikipedia and then got a rather in-depth explanation that even they'd like to be cleaned up. The explanation brought me somewhat closer to its meaning, I guess, but sorry love the concept hate the brand, way too stuffy for my tastes.
So, you know what... from now on guys, I'm going to refer to the whole teaching with technology as TwIT: http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/TwIT
There's a little irony in there but ya kno', it says what it is.
Best,
Karenne
Aside from the fact that tags are things which hang off the collar of your shirt, tags - in the world of the web - are used by people who create content (text on web-pages, blogs, media etc) and they are used to bring these like items together. The tag system is at its finest form on delicious where they have even gone a step further and created bundles (a way of creating uber categories for your tags) but you can also find them on youtube, slideshare and just about any web 2.0 website.
Examples of tags include the blue labels at the top of this and all my posting - they're there so that if you want to find another blog entry which is similar then all you have to do is click on one of those and travel around.
But I'm getting distracted.
Back to my point, the reason for writing this post:: I really, really, really, hate the term blended learning.
It doesn't say anything to me - a blended what? A mix of... oh man, what does that mean exactly? Are we talking about mixing skills or are we talking about mixing styles... I mean if I use a tape-recorder instead of my smartphone to listen to an audio recording then I'm now not blending? Why is that device any different to any other device.... And how exactly do I tag that in my posts - using the keywords blended+learning? Nah, don't like it. I just can't do it anymore, I simply cannot get my fingers to type this phrase nor to make my mouth to move that way. In fact I can't even get my head around it.
I even looked it up on wikipedia and then got a rather in-depth explanation that even they'd like to be cleaned up. The explanation brought me somewhat closer to its meaning, I guess, but sorry love the concept hate the brand, way too stuffy for my tastes.
So, you know what... from now on guys, I'm going to refer to the whole teaching with technology as TwIT: http://kalinago.blogspot.com/search/label/TwIT
There's a little irony in there but ya kno', it says what it is.
Best,
Posts
And... it would seem that I am not the only one ;-)
Here's an article from Training Zone:
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=191689&d=1
Hmm, TwIT or elearning? Whatever!