It is interesting to see the progression of our teaching strategies keeping up with the needs of our learners. The most important aspect of the Educational Technology Leadership program through Lamar University is the participants' desire to serve the needs of this generation to ensure their future success. As a student brought up in the constructivist age where we were individual learners and not encouraged to collaborate in groups, I can see the differentiation between the 'internal' learning that I did and the 'external' learning that can be gained from knowledge collected from interacting with other learners. My program consists mainly of group projects and I can definitely see the benefit of students sharing their own perspectives with each other; new knowledge is constructed through this process.
I had never heard of cyborg theory and found the intersection of Keven Warwick's experiment with the technological advances in gaming to be undeniable. One of the assignments in my class is for students to discuss what they think the future of gaming holds and the majority agree that telekenetic communication is definitely in our near future. Having this material to share with them is exciting; I am sure they will have a lot to say about it! The information I have obtained in Week 1 of Teaching With Technology has already proved invaluable.
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