Reflections on week one

My development  of both my Profile wiki and my blog have been firsts for me and as such, I was challenged, frustrated, stressed and unsure and if I’m perfectly honest, I would say the process still has not gone past my Sensory register, let alone entered my long term memory!!!!

I am prepared to say that I am an ICT immigrant http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf and certainly Vygotsky would recognise that my past experiences with ICT have not all been robustly developmental and positive.  I identify with Vygotsky (1962) http://tip.psychology.org/vygotsky.html  in that my previous experiences may be influencing my behaviour of avoidance of ICT devices. (Can we have such interplay of theory???)

All I can say is thank goodness for some of the networks I have sourced through Wendy, as well as networking the forums for direction from other students based on their experiences. (Does Connectivism http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm + Behaviourism http://elearningpedagogy.com/behaviorist.html = learning, or just reciting the processes to get the job done?)

I am experiencing a learning curve that is new for me regarding the ICT for learning processes. For example, by undertaking the various exercises on learning styles I am finding that I have attained a somewhat superficial level of knowledge. This could be explained by the time factors. I am having to manage time for work, family, uni, health and wellbeing so maybe spending more time on the learning/uni parts would facilitate stimulus of my long term memory. Maybe that is not necessary because I am finding that the diversity of learning exercises is making up for the lack of time.

For example, when I reflect on Cognitivism and the time to get knowledge from my working memory to my long term memory, I should be able to say that I have learned more about behaviourism, given that this was the theory I undertook my PMI analysis of for the Learning theories wiki. Certainly I spent more time on this exercise. But I’m not sure my level of understanding is any better than that of the other theories.

Maybe more will be unfolded in week two?