Digital Fluency Intensive Program Week 9

                                                                Agenda: Revision                        Friday, 8th May 2020

Ubiquitous learning can be defined as an everyday learning environment that is supported by mobile and embedded computers and wireless networks in our everyday life . It is aimed to provide learners with content and interaction anytime and anywhere .The learning process includes the real-life experience augmented with virtual information and is adapted to the learner and learner’s environment. 

The content objects, activities, and the interaction with the system and with other humans (including instructors and peers) are customised according to learner’s current goals of learning, interests and preferences, cognitive characteristics, history and current state of competency in the subject matter in hand, the characteristics and demands of the location, the technology being used as the medium and facilitator for learning, and the context of the situation in which the learning is taking place.

DFI, on the whole, has been an amazing experience for me. I came into it with a reasonable degree of digital fluency, but I have still learnt a lot from the experience and I walk away in a much better place in terms of my digital skill. Digital learning is replacing traditional educational methods more and more each day. With how rapidly classrooms are changing, it is best to forget methods you may remember from when you were in school and start thinking about newer teaching and learning techniques based on digital learning tools and technologies. The inclusion of digital learning in the classrooms can vary from simply using tablets instead of paper to using elaborate software programs and equipment as opposed to the simple pen.


It has been great to learn about Manaiakalani over the course of the DFI, and I am very much looking forward to what the future holds!

In 2020, the Ministry of Education expects that schools will be using the revised learning area to provide students with even broader opportunities to learn in and about technology, informed by the new content around computational thinking and designing and developing digital outcomes.


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