The Edtech trend I picked for this topic 2 is E-learning, because as a student in this pandemic, I become more and more familiar with it. Even though nowadays, I think E-learning is very prevalent, I think it could be more prevelant in the future. In a globalized world, everything is moving very fast, infomation is updating every second, and if we do not make good use of technology in the education system, we will be outdated. According to Weller (2020)’s chapter 7 of his book: “By the late 2000s though, with the advanet of greater connectivity, user generated content, and social media, a number of educators began to explore the possibilities of education in a more networked, connected model that had these new developments as core assumtions” (Weller, 2020). This is the first reason why I chose to discuss E-learning.
The second reason has to do with constructvism. We all know that E-learning can be asynchronous and synchronous, asynchronous E-learning allow students to learn at their own pace, and synchronous E-learning gives the opportunity for collaberation. When talking about constructivism, Weller(2020) highlighted Siemens (2005)’s constructivism principles, these principles matches with how E-learning works. For example, Simens (2005) says: “Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinions” and “learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources” (Weller, 2020). Asynchronous and synchronous lectures give students the opportunity to do that.
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