Networks and learning . . .

If I think about my classroom and when learning takes place with my students, some of the most significant learning is through discussion, when we are pulling apart ideas and together constructing knowledge. The students in the classroom act as a networked environment and knowledge and meaning change as we discuss, read, and explore different topics. The internet has opened up a whole new networked environment that we can tap into. We have at our finger tips a vast resource of information and opinions in which to explore our environment and construct knowledge from this. My struggle is how to incorporate this into my teaching in an effective way and how to teach my students to not take everything they read on the internet at face value as 'fact' but to look at the information critically, to question it.