Month: March 2022

By reading Chapter 6 of the article “Emerging Technologies in Distance Education”. By reading Chapter 6 of the article “Emerging Technologies in Distance Education”. This chapter is about personalized learning and learning theory. The Adult Learning Theory is mentioned in the article, is predicated on the idea that adults and children learn in different ways, and that these differences should be recognised and accommodated.

What made me wow are the four principles of adult pedagogy:

1. Adults should be involved in planning and evaluating their learning instruction.
2. Experience is the foundation of learning.
3. Adults tend to take courses that have a direct impact on their jobs and careers.
4. Adult learning is not content-centered, but problem-centered

What made me wonder is the way adults learn is very different from the way children learn, how can you use the experience to improve your own learning?

This week, by watching Queen’s video #tresdancing, a short film about screening surveillance. What I feel wow is about this video is the use of surveillance to help educate. At the beginning of the video, the girls were canceled during the exam due to some normal environmental influences. What struck me the most was that the system monitors a girl’s eye movements to make sure she’s not cheating. And what makes me wonder is whether this excessive surveillance system violates people’s privacy? For example, people’s identity characteristics, family environment have been recorded.