Eric Waterkotte's Blog (2)

So I was watching this presentation by Sugata Mitra about Education Technology, how kids learn and how they teach themselves. One of the assertions made in the presentation is that learning is, most likely, a self-organizing system. I have been chewing on this mentally for several days now thinking how profound the implication of this assertion is. Seems that education, in the formal sense, has been more of a structured organism until I started teaching myself, learnng from others and teaching o… Continue

As an instructional designer at Peninsula College I would like to share my thoughts about Fall Quarter 2008 as a part of the BTC NING Challange. First, let me explain myself. I didn't actually teach a class this quarter although I did assist with an Economics course by running the online side of the class for an instructor who didn't have time or the experience to build a Blackboard course in the ridiculously short amount of time he had between being hired and the start of the quarter. I did all… Continue