Week one's project is the content proposal which is due the first part of week two. Having listened in on the wimba session to get a better understanding of what is required I am now ready to begin the task of writing the proposal. My thesis is "Gender Differences in Online Learning: A Biological Factor". The problem proposed is that men and women learn differently due to biological factors from birth and therefore there needs to be more gender neutral training that greatly reduces the differences. One of the solutions is to incorporate web 2.0 technologies that encompass both verbal and visual learning while stimulating kinesthetics to induce the various forms of learning styles. Another solution is to raise overall expectations of individuals to increase their success to learning.
Bringing these solutions to a working project that endorses the solutions will be challenging for me. My thought is to conduct a Utudu training module that contains various movies, podcasts, interactive assesments and learning aids while guiding the learner to a better of understanding of the gender differences and how to overcome them. My objective is to give a cognitive leraning domain where knowledge is the key to learning.
I am going to find the proposal to be the easy part of the entire project. Putting it all together will be the real reward and hopefully I can put it all together succesfully.
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Tanya,
ReplyDeleteI must have forgotten that your thesis is about gender differences and online learning. I can’t wait to read it and see your media project. By now, you have probably read about Randy Pausch’s work to make computer programming more appealing to girls. To do this, he created a program called Alice that attracts the social storyteller in girls and entices them to use the drag and drop program to create the stories. Before long and without knowing it, they have become beginning computer programmers. Having used Alice in my own classroom with both boys and girls, I can attest to the differences and have been amazed at what they accomplish and how they get there. Check out Alice at http://www.alice.org/.