Confessions of a Digital Immigrant:

Technology and IBL

TILL IBL Awayday

18 June 08

Willy Kitchen

3 things which IBL tends to play particular havoc with …

• Space (new spaces required for inquiry, collaboration and feedback);

• Time (blurring the boundaries between “class time” and “independent learning hours” – 200 hours really might mean that);

• and the Final Frontier (which, for now at least, might most effectively be explored and/or expanded digitally and online)

Blogs – flexible spaces, interesting times

Wikis – weaving links through collaborative writing

Flickr sites – open source software and collaborative data collection

MOLE – more or less than we’d bargained for?

Passing fad or pedagogical fancy?

“This has been the first IBL module that I have experienced. It has certainly been a challenge, particularly since my computer skills are limited. However, the course has made me determined to overcome this problem. I have enjoyed the group work – it has awakened my interest in local history ...” (module evaluation)

Brass tacks

Quote from reflective diary extracted pending formal permissions …

… like a rolling stone – decentring time and space