Week 2 – Unlecture and Tutorial

This week’s lecture stressed again that ‘knowledge is constructed’ and this course is about the simultaneous production of both knowledge and graduates. As the semester progresses and students become a little bit more settled, it’s interesting to see the division of opinion towards this somewhat experimental approach to teaching and learning.

Vce vs. Tertiary Education

Adrian proposed that Education isn’t a passive one way transaction and I agree with him to a certain degree. Unlike in secondary school, we are very much left to our own devices, there’s no one looking over our shoulder or checking up on us. We must seek out help and information and this is the way it should be. After all, that’s what happens in the working world. However I found myself agreeing more with what Elliot had to say. There is a certain level of expectation from us as students as to what we will be receiving by enrolling and indeed paying for this course. As a tertiary student I expect to be taught the suitable skills and knowledge necessary for my chosen field of work as well as the opportunity to take part in tangible, experienced based learning activities. Of course part of this falls back onto me as the student but there is an element of trust between me and the institution that these expectations will be fulfilled.

The essence of this course so far to me has been learning how to learn. Becoming the people who know how to find the answers, where they are and how to use that information and deconstructed it.

Design Fiction

In the tutorials we dissected the readings on design fiction. Parallels were made between last weeks focus on double loop learning and coming back to the what if? 

Take away ideas:

The nature of the network is changing all the time – as is this curriculum and the path of this course.

How we can use what if questions to speculate how things could be in the future. Imagine a scenario that has not yet come to be.

Design fiction draws on things we already know but adds improvements – the wiki is similar to this as we do imagined interviews.