Lecture 1: The Internet as a resource for learning.

The internet is many things to many people, and after we discussed what we all use the internet for it became apparent that we all hold different opinions. Is the internet a go to resource, does it feed our curiosity to understand, communicate or consume? Most will use the internet for its collosal amount of information, accessible by a finger tip and available at an instance. So how can children learn from the internet both at home and at school? Unlocking and understanding how children learn and realising this within an online enviroment should be at the forefront of education. The design of the world wide wide should enable the classroom to be limitless and indeed there are many resources in existence, but are they fit for purpose? It is easy to see how resources may sit within and between the behaviourist and contructivist theories of learning, and indeed this blog is the evidence of social contructivism at its heart. We discuss, we research, we learn and evaluate our learning from each other. Just the fact that I am struggling in my design of this site, I have looked at others for inspiration and discussed with these peers about how to get what I want (work in progress of course) shows how my collaborative learning is taken place via the internet.