Encountering E-Learning Education

This is a short video I sourced from YouTube by Kath Cassidy on primary teaching using information communication technologies. This short video was created for Terry Freedman who is the editor of “Coming of Age”. Kath contributed to this piece of educational literature by discussing how young children can use web tools to learning. Even as young as age six can use blogs, wikis, podcasts to communicate their thoughts despite the fact that they’re only  just learning to express their thoughts. The internet is a powerful learning tool for these young children as they can learn from other children and adults from around the world being a part of the global conversation.

I was intrigued to learn that these young children were blogging as part of their learning with several classes around the world. They were also using wikis to learn about “traditions”. The children were also interacting with a class of university students who were currently studying how to teach writing to primary aged children. To make this interactivity even more exciting and valuable the children met the university students though Skype. For the primary school students, their blogging had greater depth and importance because they knew that older students would be regularly reading and commenting on their work.

This short video is a testimony to the deep value of ICTs in primary classrooms. The scope of learning is unending and restricted only by the teacher’s fears and inhibitions. I can see how imperative a risk-taking approach is to teaching using ICTs in order to really open up the many teaching opportunities the internet provides.

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