The image about the mind-boggling Webstats was a bit big to keep on the blog for ever. So I decided to change the blogpost with only the link to that amazing image: Click here to view.
Monday, August 2, 2010
15 Mind-blowing or numbing facts about the internet
How does reading the information in the linked site below make you feel? Does it have something to say for e-Learning in Health Sciences Education? Please leave your comments below the post.
The image about the mind-boggling Webstats was a bit big to keep on the blog for ever. So I decided to change the blogpost with only the link to that amazing image: Click here to view.
The image about the mind-boggling Webstats was a bit big to keep on the blog for ever. So I decided to change the blogpost with only the link to that amazing image: Click here to view.
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Dear JP
ReplyDeleteI was about to e-mial you to ask you something about Google and now this posting about the magnitude of Google. I told you that I could not read the central blog on my computer at work. But somebody installed Google Chrome on my computer and now I can view the central blog again. What is Google Chrome?
OMG!Someone just mentioned some of these facts on the radio yesterday and it just reminded me of why we need to at least TRY e-learning as an added tool for our teaching and learning material. Can you just imagine how big the internet will be in a few years time? Are the Varsity students of the next few years not going to NEED this type of learning environment?
ReplyDeleteI actually had to defend (and did so proudly) e-learning to a random lecturer the other day after the software demonstration in which we were all(mostly) impressed with the opportunity that a computer/intranet based program could have for our students. This lecturer just could not understand how we could all agree that "replacing text books" was a good idea, and could not grasp the concept that it was just an additional "textbook" with more features geared towards the type of students we have today! Come on ppl, lets bury this archaic mentality, if the original edition of a textbook was the one and only source of knowledge, why would we even try to prepare lectures?
Enough ranting :)....let's keep on racing toward the end of this module! I can't wait to see all the ingenious ideas my colleagues have come up with!
Hello to all of you!
ReplyDeleteTo me, the information is a bit discouraging from one side, and somehow reassuring we will never be able to cover it all. So, it is enough to know that whatever we need to learn/know, is reachable with a couple of clicks (meaning it is at hand), but it reminds us also how broad is the knowledge, therefore how limited it is also for a single human being, to go deep in a given field. Time. It is something we cannot save/spare.
Hi all!
ReplyDeleteTogether with implementing e-learning into our curricula, we will have to teach our learners how to be discerning internet users in order to make the best use of the knowledge overload out there. I had a look at a few videos on utube about a certain clinical procedure and allthough there were quite a selection, in the end there was nothing I could actually use for the purpose I had in mind.
But there certainly is an amazing wealth of usable knowledge as well which can enable us to be more creative in the way we teach.
Summer is coming!! (I think)
Hi!
ReplyDeleteMy brain just went BOOM! It's crazy how much info is out there, and with regards to our students, I echo Adele's comment about teaching our stduents how to be discerning internet users, especially with regards to determining which sites / resourced are academically creditable or not.
This is something that I have found difficult during the Mphil programme, who / what can I trust? Considering the barrage of e-contact such as spam, and that anyone can post anything they want on the internet, I don't think trust issues are unwarranted.
But,on the other hand, what a wonderful resource. I was trying to think the other day how I managed to projects when I was at school without the internet ... and to be honest, I more often than not relied on our antique set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica's at home. That kind of links in with Physiokeiller's comment regarding the use of textbooks and how quickly this information becomes outdated. With the flexibility and renewal of information on the internet, you do have the most up-to-date info at your fingertips.
Now, to go and try explain this to my dad, who is venturing out into the world of computers for the first time at the age of 59 ... think we're going to have another BOOM moment.