Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Reading Reflection 2
As usual we have had another interesting article that really impressed me while Anderson (2003) well- defined the interaction. As he said “Interaction has long been defining and critical component of the educational process and context”. Preferred better Wagner’s (1994) definition that interaction is a mutual events that require “two objects” and “two action”. Whenever these two influence mutually to each other interaction happens. AS I found out from the article that interaction is key factor in highly learning program either formal or informal. Both formal and informal learning can result from interaction among students. He presented interaction process in three different ways such as student-student; student-teacher; student-content. Actually interaction with a teacher is often an important component of a formal learning experience but student-student interaction informal and it is more effective. For example in this course CALL since I have been in this class I feel free I interact my classmates. Frankly I learned a lot.
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Mustafa,
That's right the interaction with a teacher is often an important component of a formal learning experience as well as the interaction among student-student. However, the point is how we as teachers can get the mix right. It's tricky, isn't it? We have to know how much student-teacher interaction should be in a traditional classroom versus distance learning or how much student-content should be in a traditional classroom versus distance learning. But after all, I think we can get the mix right (or close to right) if we have gained enough good experiences :)
Kwan
Mustafa & Kwan, you both brought up good points. For example, in an online course you may have more time and flexibility interacting with teachers and students, but it still depends on how people in front of screens would like to do this. Therefore, as an online instructor being willing to quickly respond to students, as well as to foster good atmosphere for students to interact with other students is important.
Chien-han
Mustafa,
You mentioned the points of the author regarding formal and informal learning, which I also found interesting in the article. The author states that learning in an informal environment happens all the time, but it isn't necessarily designed to happen. We learn like this throughout life, without any interaction with other students or teachers. However, I would argue that, even in this learning, we are interacting with 'content'; it just wasn't created as such.
Matt
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