Bewarethegeek Goes Digital

I’m currently writing the theories and frameworks section of my wiki at the moment and finding it interesting just how interrelated a lot of the theories are. They all have roots in each other and it makes it difficult to see what came first but also makes applying aspects of them to case studies interesting.  [...]

Having just finished reading about a study involving the SpeakEasy knowledge integration environment, I was thinking about how the experiences of the students in the study related to my own. In the experiment, the students were assigned use of the discussion board for homework, making it a compulsory task. In my science degree, we had [...]

I decided to reflect on my own experiences in science and use them as a case study to which I would apply some of the theories and frameworks I’ve been reading about in the process of doing this assignment. I am finding the theoretical aspect of this project particularly interesting because it seems to be [...]

I’m reading the ACACE’s report on Basic Science Education for Adults. It’s linking in nicely with a paper I’m about half way through about attitudes towards sciences in relation to social change and is making a point that at the highschool and early university level, science enrolments and interest is significantly dropping in favour of [...]

This post is based around the paper by Weller et. al (2005) – Use of innovative technologies on an e-learning course. As an extension of the post I made yesterday, Weller et al. (2005) talk about blogging in their discussion of some of the new technologies being utilised in e-learning and he mentions group blogs, [...]