User:DegoursJ

About Me: Educator and Tech explorer
I am an educator working in Adult Education, teaching language, literacy and numeracy skills to migrants.

Currently I am studying for my MA in Education, focussing on e-Learning technologies, including MOOCS. One of my research projects involves wikis and how they can enhance learning in two specific fields: youth engagement and language learning.

As I have had NO personal experience with wikis, I thought that this might be a good way to become familiar with the format, and possibly, explore the notion of knowledge construction through collaboration.

Unfortunately, I am still having teething problems learning to negotiate the site and its tools.

I would put this down as part of the necessary but frustrating part of learning ABOUT the technology before one can USE it!

This of course suggests to me that users are NOT savvy in all technologies (how could they be?), even if they do live a mainly digital life - as I do.