The CORE Education eFellowship Awards recognise innovative e-learning practice by New Zealand teachers.
View more stories from CORE Education eFellows in the eFellows EDtalks channel
The CORE Education eFellowship Awards recognise innovative e-learning practice by New Zealand teachers.
View more stories from CORE Education eFellows in the eFellows EDtalks channel
Sonya, a 2011 CORE Education eFellow, researched hyperconnectivity in teaching and learning. Sonya wanted to investigate how teachers and children collaborate and connect online. She has found that her research raised more questions than answers.You can find out more about Sonya's research on her wiki >>Applications for the 2013 eFellowships are now open >>
Talofa lava. My name is Sonya Van Schaijik. I'm a teacher at Newmarket School which is a central school in Auckland. My research or my investigation for the eFellows is hyperconnectivity. I'm interested in hyperconnectivity for creating, collaborating, and connecting an online environment. The reason I chose it was because I'm active, I'm an active teacher online and my children are active online with Superclubs Plus. And our teachers at our school are just beginning to be active online with Myportfolios. I chose hyperconnectivity because I wanted to investigate how teachers collaborate and connect online, and children, how they collaborate and connect online.
However as I've been investigating and have been reading around hyperconnectivity, I'm at a point now where my own teaching and practice is being critiqued. I feel critical about what's going on. I want to find out what happens. Is it the more children move online, what is happening offline? As they spend more time collaborating and connecting online what are they dropping from their own lives?
When, my research initially was that online is really important, and by collaborating, connecting online more happens. So my initial research was what kind of events can I create that will enable more collaboration, more connections. So when I first began the eFellow I set up a global forum and we had over a thousand children connecting online interviewing a New Zealand author. So that is what I initially set up, that's what was my initial eFellow, was creating events that showed collaboration and connection online.
I worked with schools in an online way, we connected via Skyping. Now that we have done all of that, I am now at a stage where I am questioning what else is going on.
I've got another event coming up this term between classes and between schools as part of our Enviro project. But I'm approaching this event differently. Before I would have approached it from the tool perspective and the end product, what it looks like. I'm right at the stage now where I know this event will be approached differently. I've already begun the process coming at it at a, can I say a human, face to face. Because often I think a lot of what's going on online is we're missing the 'humanness'. So I'm in two minds at this stage.
Sonya, a 2011 CORE Education eFellow, researched hyperconnectivity in teaching and learning. Sonya wanted to investigate how teachers and children collaborate and connect online. She has found that her research raised more questions than answers.You can find out more about Sonya's research on her wiki >>Applications for the 2013 eFellowships are now open >>
Talofa lava. My name is Sonya Van Schaijik. I'm a teacher at Newmarket School which is a central school in Auckland. My research or my investigation for the eFellows is hyperconnectivity. I'm interested in hyperconnectivity for creating, collaborating, and connecting an online environment. The reason I chose it was because I'm active, I'm an active teacher online and my children are active online with Superclubs Plus. And our teachers at our school are just beginning to be active online with Myportfolios. I chose hyperconnectivity because I wanted to investigate how teachers collaborate and connect online, and children, how they collaborate and connect online.
However as I've been investigating and have been reading around hyperconnectivity, I'm at a point now where my own teaching and practice is being critiqued. I feel critical about what's going on. I want to find out what happens. Is it the more children move online, what is happening offline? As they spend more time collaborating and connecting online what are they dropping from their own lives?
When, my research initially was that online is really important, and by collaborating, connecting online more happens. So my initial research was what kind of events can I create that will enable more collaboration, more connections. So when I first began the eFellow I set up a global forum and we had over a thousand children connecting online interviewing a New Zealand author. So that is what I initially set up, that's what was my initial eFellow, was creating events that showed collaboration and connection online.
I worked with schools in an online way, we connected via Skyping. Now that we have done all of that, I am now at a stage where I am questioning what else is going on.
I've got another event coming up this term between classes and between schools as part of our Enviro project. But I'm approaching this event differently. Before I would have approached it from the tool perspective and the end product, what it looks like. I'm right at the stage now where I know this event will be approached differently. I've already begun the process coming at it at a, can I say a human, face to face. Because often I think a lot of what's going on online is we're missing the 'humanness'. So I'm in two minds at this stage.
Sonya, a 2011 CORE Education eFellow, researched hyperconnectivity in teaching and learning. Sonya wanted to investigate how teachers and children collaborate and connect online. She has found that her research raised more questions than answers.You can find out more about Sonya's research on her wiki >>Applications for the 2013 eFellowships are now open >>
Talofa lava. My name is Sonya Van Schaijik. I'm a teacher at Newmarket School which is a central school in Auckland. My research or my investigation for the eFellows is hyperconnectivity. I'm interested in hyperconnectivity for creating, collaborating, and connecting an online environment. The reason I chose it was because I'm active, I'm an active teacher online and my children are active online with Superclubs Plus. And our teachers at our school are just beginning to be active online with Myportfolios. I chose hyperconnectivity because I wanted to investigate how teachers collaborate and connect online, and children, how they collaborate and connect online.
However as I've been investigating and have been reading around hyperconnectivity, I'm at a point now where my own teaching and practice is being critiqued. I feel critical about what's going on. I want to find out what happens. Is it the more children move online, what is happening offline? As they spend more time collaborating and connecting online what are they dropping from their own lives?
When, my research initially was that online is really important, and by collaborating, connecting online more happens. So my initial research was what kind of events can I create that will enable more collaboration, more connections. So when I first began the eFellow I set up a global forum and we had over a thousand children connecting online interviewing a New Zealand author. So that is what I initially set up, that's what was my initial eFellow, was creating events that showed collaboration and connection online.
I worked with schools in an online way, we connected via Skyping. Now that we have done all of that, I am now at a stage where I am questioning what else is going on.
I've got another event coming up this term between classes and between schools as part of our Enviro project. But I'm approaching this event differently. Before I would have approached it from the tool perspective and the end product, what it looks like. I'm right at the stage now where I know this event will be approached differently. I've already begun the process coming at it at a, can I say a human, face to face. Because often I think a lot of what's going on online is we're missing the 'humanness'. So I'm in two minds at this stage.
The CORE Education eFellowship Awards recognise innovative e-learning practice by New Zealand teachers.
View more stories from CORE Education eFellows in the eFellows EDtalks channel
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