visualisation of a few manifesto statements

This course has been based around The Manifesto for Teaching Online  and I have re-visited my posts to see what I was initially interested in 3 months ago, when I started my first blogs on the Manifesto. Here, I will briefly summarise my conclusions of a couple of aspects of the course. Technology and the […]

“While facilitation is of course an important aspect of teaching, we argue in this manifesto that good online teaching is very much more than this.”  (Bayne et al (2020) “Manifesto for Teaching Online” p.32) This for me is at the very core of the role of digital education within education as a whole. All too […]

What I want to explore in this blog is the position of the teacher within digital education. In my blog on Digital Natives, I recognised that the teacher’s position is a precarious one; teachers are all too often teetering on a digital paddleboard in the face of a swell of constant change and advances. I […]

“Digital natives” are defined as individuals born after 1980, who were raised in an environment in which they were surrounded by technology and who possess technological skills different from those possessed by the members of the prior generation (Palfrey and Gasser, 2013, Prensky, 2001).   It strikes me, as is stated in the Manifesto for […]