Hadba

Hi I'm Hadba. This is a draft and I would like to share some **Heuristics** ** Choosing between going Digital or being Diligent ** Choosing a new form of technology to facilitate students learning ability is a very common approach employed by individuals to make the most out of the resources available. The transition from the conventional (in this case already using technologies or teaching methods) to the new form of technology for educational excellence is a daunting task. This particular paper explores the tensions which arise for the young individuals of the categories ‘digital kids’ and ‘diligent kids’. The study was conducted on a private school named elite public school where the tensions between going digital and being diligent have been made a part to study the achievement achieved through digital innovation. The findings were based upon a survey of 481 students of the school. The study intends to get an idea on the issues of peer support, ease of usefulness, learning goals and cognitive playfulness. The research was based upon the data collection process using an extensive questionnaire which was specifically designed for the senior student population of the school of 500 students approximately. Research has also shown that the need to improve the facilities which may cause potential tension in the minds of the students, according to Dorman (2009) the need to have improved classroom environment is a essential component for the betterment of student learning. In Mid 2007 the process has been taken up and a astonishing response rate of 93% has been achieved. The questionnaire consisted of the questions which were related to socio-psychological scales which measure students learning dispositions, pertinent technological and social variables which are based on the behavioural model. To analyse the data a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) technique was used by the researcher to have an understanding on the data which was found, the technique was used to analyse the relationship between various entities like learning dispositions, levels of peer support, ease of use and usefulness of the system. The issues which would be present for the teaching staffs is to understanding the results of the findings as these findings are based upon technicalities of psychology which can be a bit difficult for the staff to analyse the areas where they need to take extensive care of students as they would be highly tensed with number of new processes. Implementing by adjusting various levels of teaching can also be a difficult and daunting task for the teaching community. Students on the other hand need to be focussed on the teaching module which is being taking place and also should be able to provide accurate feedback on the issues which they are encountering so that there would be an opportunity to solve the issues encountered thereafter. In school environment I believe that going digital is a bit difficult with the young school children who lack understanding capacity of technology and being diligent in their scenario is a best option according to me but on the other hand going digital with high school students is a better option.

Hi Habda (SG), I thought this paper was interesting. It seems to me that what creates this tension is the 'hidden curriculum' of the school (and society) that values test performance rather than learning. The kind of qualities that students need to take advantage of Web 2.0 media (the cognitive playfulness mentioned) are directly opposed to the qualities that inform the 'diligent student'. I believe that until we change our assessment practices, and start to value creativity, innovation and problem solving over knowledge reguritation, this tension will remain, and much of the promise of Web 2.0 will go unrealized.

One thing though, to keep in mind regarding this study, is that the factors related to cognitive playfulness only accounted for a small percentage of the variance (I think it was 24% from memory), whereas inclusion of more pragmatic factors such as ease of use, and usefulness, accounted for far more varience.

Shirley 18/8: Good start Hadba and good feedback Steve! Suggestion - rephrase your heuristic to be more of a "lesson learnt" or a guide that you could share with others eg., "For Web 2.0 tools to be used 'effectively' for learning, the assessment strategy must be aligned to the nature of the task" - or something like that...

** Hypertext Hyper‘s Learning: ** Online education being considered to be a solution to enhance better learning outcomes for the students is a good sign in the education sector. Hypertext has its own disadvantages according to Usó-Juan, E. and M. Ruiz-Madrid (2009) the hypertext disadvantages include the disorientationof the poorly designed system, information overload and high amount of confusion along with reading the information from the screen. But on the other hand not implementing winning strategies to present the information in the process of teaching has had a inefficient or hyper effects on the learning outcomes of the students. The present study is based upon the hypertext issue which has hindered the learning levels of the students. The study intends to give a clear illustration on the aspect of hypertext and then tries to tell to have a educative link between the text which is being presented in the learning process. For this particular paper a total of 208 students were tested and impact of hypertext environments, strategies for avoiding in online learning have been made. Students have often being making comments of spending huge amount of time on online courses compared to that of the traditional face to face interactions and hyper text is one of the other aspects which are mainly criticised in the online learning environment. To clarify the perceptions which the students generally have the author believes that the students should initially know the notions of information overload and stimulus overload in the online learning environment. The areas where the major findings were intended is that the overload can be helpful for the students in learning the subject content effectively, reporting of overload issues would reduce significantly. In the study the information was initially presented in chunks of hypertext and where it was linked to get the further information but the problem here was that the shabby pattern was the experimental set up. The participants 208 in number were given a 30 min to have a read and learn in five specific areas of psychology text keeping the screen size normal and organised. A set of conditions were specified to the students who had to make a judgement on the data which was presented. The results have shown that the relevantly organised data have been seen as the ones with higher understanding levels by the students and also would perform much better and gain knowledge if done so. The problem here with this kind of an experiment to the teachers is that if the tested pattern is good and not implemented immediately the chances of dissatisfaction would grow for the students which they would have to answer to number of students. On the other hand the designers need to understand that the strategies which are being implemented in the processes needs to be accurate and efficient apart from that must be able to be implemented as quickly as possible in the event of success or else the essence of testing is lost. I personally believe that the hypertext presentation is a bit complicated as if in the case of hypertext link page does not respond correctly in displaying information the learning process is stopped and high amount of dissatisfaction levels would have to be seen among the students. Hi Hadba

I thank you are on righ way as a topic but you need to follow huristics tip as:

And as I know we should show and share the huristics with designers and learner to folow in future to get more usfull from elearning Regards, Fawaz
 * explain what the statement means in more detail
 * explain what the heuristic means in practice and give examples if appropriate
 * explain why this is a useful heuristic in your context as a learner, teacher or designer
 * explain why the issue is important to you, in other words why did you choose to write about it
 * offer any practical suggestions you might have for other practitioners trying to implement the heuristic

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