Digital Learning Environment

•What is your definition of a ‘Digital Learning Environment’?

 

A DLE is a progressive, flexible and supportive learning space that evolves as an individual’s needs change. DLE allows for learning to occur outside school hours in the comfort of home or Café allowing a certain control over the pace of an indviduals learning. Skill development and awareness of tools available to an individual could be classified as early development stages, proficiency at this stage can lead to conscious efforts regarding ethics, values, privacy and safety followed by copyright issues and critical evaluation of ideas or information presented to individuals.

•What are some of the changes created by our digital lifestyle that you need to be aware of as an educator?

 

As an educator it’s important to be aware of the abundance of information available to learners and how to identify reliable and current information. Furthermore, awareness of personal information posted on social media sites that can be viewed by cohorts and students.

•What has been the impact of social networking on teaching and learning?

 

Social networking used positively can provide another effective medium teachers and students can use to meet educational outcomes. Events that occur locally, nationally or internationally can be viewed instantly by students using personal devices allowing the teacher to provide a platform for discussion about key issues and events that students can read, collaborated, analysis and form opinions about.