Hello everyone
This week the main topic was "metaphors" in education. Understanding the concept of metaphor as a cognitive component that allows the integration of new concepts into existing knowledge fields .
Regarding readings and Balfour Stewart , I think the future is now! . Within the educational context, the technology has been developed to automate processes. From a utopian perspective we think that the use of ICT in education automate all educational processes . However, as we have Balfour technologies are not always suited to a general requirement , maybe we are in a dystopian state.
On the other hand, we can also consider using the Mooc as a metaphor to support the generation of knowledge and the learning process . The structure of a Mooc helps students to get a criticism of the general context and not just watch the Mooc as a Web site, but rather a collaborative learning environment, so the Mooc allow members of a course generating knowledge, based on blogs, wikis , video stream, etc. .
Finally, the use of metaphors in learning may break new ground for the future of education and even more so if information technologies are adapted in these processes. But as I have said before, the technology will not be the final solution to achieve a utopian context in education, I believe the cornerstone is the process to build and maintain learning... technology will always be the medium.
