This evening I had opportunity to watch a video by Daphne Koller, co founder of Cursera about the potential of e-learning and what we're learning from online education. The video was really inspiring so I went to look what courses they have to offer and it seems that I found a couple of them which interested me.
Lately I have been thinking quite much at the potential of the e-learning and how I could use my skills in that field of education: the reality is that there is not a school ib Oulu area ready to take me on board. I have to make a move and start to dance according to the music. Nowadays is not the world what they were teaching me at school and that's the problem of my country. We should start to look around us and go to looking for opportunities. I won't have perhaps ever a permanent job from 8-16 5 days a week so I have to organize myself with the plan B. I have the biggest motivation sleeping in the next room and I will never let him down. I will provide for him opportunities to have an education, possibilities and choices. Those that I never had.
The potential of e-learning is extremely wide: is quite democratic cause everybody could access to the courses, it supports collaborative learning and last but not the least give a chance to re-invent your entire career if it is necessary. I find this last aspect very positive: I define myself as a person that could always change like a chameleon and give me the possibilities to become someone else (in potential) is like giving to an hungry animal food.
Here is the link to the speech:
Ted Daphne Koller What we are learning from online education
07/03/13
Interaction with working community _ task 3
How do you interact with your working community? What could you do differently to enhance the spirits of your working place? Is there someone in your working community who brings positive energy to you; why is that? Reflect on the quality of the interaction in the light of where and why is the interaction fruitful to you to lift up your working spirit.
The interaction with my working community is with my students, my boses and my collegue Marina (who is also an Italian teacher). The interaction with them is by phone, emails and social networks such facebook, linkedin and skype. I work in Community Colleges (in Finnish Kansalaisopisto) so the spirit is to give our customers a learning and relaxing enviroment while following their passions. I am an Italian teacher and I lead courses for those who are going to Italy (mostly for vacation) but also for those who wants to learn the language for other reasons (family member, passion for Italian culture or because they can speak already Spanish).
My boses are quite open minded we are basically free to express our ideas and - in my case - propose new courses. There is not s specific person who does bring positive energy: I would say that I got that from the group in general. Students are there cause they want to learn Italian so they actively partecipate to the lessons: this give me positive energy that I give back to them as a mirror. Sometimes I face difficult groups: with them it is harder than usually is but I try my best to give them anyway a good service. In those cases I share my feelings with my only collegue, Marina, by phone. I travel quite a lot and so is she, so when we want to give each other support, we call during this long trips. We could talk over an hour! We share the difficulties with a specific group and try to give each other support and solutions.
I would say that my interaction has been good until now but lately I have felt that I would need to partecipate more to the activities of the schools: it seems to me that I am quite separate to the general philosophy of a specific organization, instead would be nice to help to organize and bring new ideas. I would like to have possibility to build some projects that involves students but most of the time the schools they do not have enought financial possibilities. I would say that going to work is refreshing for me: the interaction with the students is extremely positive even sometimes (for my personal reasons) I am going to work that I am already tired.
It would be nice to have stronger interaction with my boses or from those who have longer experience in teaching than me: it would be nice to organize not only language courses but also courses related to cultures and communication in foreigner country. Maybe one day...who knows?
The interaction with my working community is with my students, my boses and my collegue Marina (who is also an Italian teacher). The interaction with them is by phone, emails and social networks such facebook, linkedin and skype. I work in Community Colleges (in Finnish Kansalaisopisto) so the spirit is to give our customers a learning and relaxing enviroment while following their passions. I am an Italian teacher and I lead courses for those who are going to Italy (mostly for vacation) but also for those who wants to learn the language for other reasons (family member, passion for Italian culture or because they can speak already Spanish).
My boses are quite open minded we are basically free to express our ideas and - in my case - propose new courses. There is not s specific person who does bring positive energy: I would say that I got that from the group in general. Students are there cause they want to learn Italian so they actively partecipate to the lessons: this give me positive energy that I give back to them as a mirror. Sometimes I face difficult groups: with them it is harder than usually is but I try my best to give them anyway a good service. In those cases I share my feelings with my only collegue, Marina, by phone. I travel quite a lot and so is she, so when we want to give each other support, we call during this long trips. We could talk over an hour! We share the difficulties with a specific group and try to give each other support and solutions.
I would say that my interaction has been good until now but lately I have felt that I would need to partecipate more to the activities of the schools: it seems to me that I am quite separate to the general philosophy of a specific organization, instead would be nice to help to organize and bring new ideas. I would like to have possibility to build some projects that involves students but most of the time the schools they do not have enought financial possibilities. I would say that going to work is refreshing for me: the interaction with the students is extremely positive even sometimes (for my personal reasons) I am going to work that I am already tired.
It would be nice to have stronger interaction with my boses or from those who have longer experience in teaching than me: it would be nice to organize not only language courses but also courses related to cultures and communication in foreigner country. Maybe one day...who knows?
Make the move video
Our assignment was to watch a video about substanbility. Many pictures that cover different themes. Some of them were for me clear what you meant and other not. (for instance...Colosseum) but I will try to share my thoughts while watching the video (is this what you asked right?)
The youth unemployement rates are scary and is one of the biggest reason why I moved here. In my home country there are not jobs available so I was "forced" to seek opportunities somewhere else too. To favourite mobility should be more programes that let people go abroad for working or studies. I don´t know how many they are out there, but when I was studying, we had only Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci and Comenius and they are NOT for everybody. (meaning that in Italy to parteciapate in one of them you need to be good in school... ;) )
How balancing social economic and environment for the future generations?I read in internet few days ago that most of the ideas to save the world seems to be quite tecnological: sun shelter for instance is one of them(more in here http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/ten-ideas-to-save-the-world.html)
but I am thinking something more practical and why not? more fun.
First of all we should give to solving the world problems a lot of time in terms of hours per week and change the attitude: we should have exactly the attitude to achieve the goal, ready to take all the risks that a mission would include... it´s the same attitude that we have when we play games. I have been inspire from this video that actually give us an idea how to save the world using games: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html .
Now in here she used the World of Warcraft but think about to transfer this kind of games in normal day situations starting from kindergarden: simulation activities with young children, youngsters and so on. Starting with a tasks that you and only you can solve (the others give you a task and they trust you in saving the world): the task is suitable for you capability and you are able to achieve it with some effors and go to the second level and so on. What about using simulations on line games to support the collaborative aspects and help the future generations to litlle by little making the gap smaller and smaller?
Similuation games can be done also in real life not only on line: starting with the youngest generations:in kindergarden why we don´t for instance play games according to the children´s age, personalities that helps to saving the world?
Giving children/youngsters tasks in the game that they think is reasonable for them and they can solve. This will give them motivation to go on until they can get the goals. Playing a game together is also give the player the feelings that the other players won´t leave the game until the end. They will be there playing with us until the goal.
Would it be enough as crazy ideas?
The youth unemployement rates are scary and is one of the biggest reason why I moved here. In my home country there are not jobs available so I was "forced" to seek opportunities somewhere else too. To favourite mobility should be more programes that let people go abroad for working or studies. I don´t know how many they are out there, but when I was studying, we had only Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci and Comenius and they are NOT for everybody. (meaning that in Italy to parteciapate in one of them you need to be good in school... ;) )
How balancing social economic and environment for the future generations?I read in internet few days ago that most of the ideas to save the world seems to be quite tecnological: sun shelter for instance is one of them(more in here http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/ten-ideas-to-save-the-world.html)
but I am thinking something more practical and why not? more fun.
First of all we should give to solving the world problems a lot of time in terms of hours per week and change the attitude: we should have exactly the attitude to achieve the goal, ready to take all the risks that a mission would include... it´s the same attitude that we have when we play games. I have been inspire from this video that actually give us an idea how to save the world using games: http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html .
Now in here she used the World of Warcraft but think about to transfer this kind of games in normal day situations starting from kindergarden: simulation activities with young children, youngsters and so on. Starting with a tasks that you and only you can solve (the others give you a task and they trust you in saving the world): the task is suitable for you capability and you are able to achieve it with some effors and go to the second level and so on. What about using simulations on line games to support the collaborative aspects and help the future generations to litlle by little making the gap smaller and smaller?
Similuation games can be done also in real life not only on line: starting with the youngest generations:in kindergarden why we don´t for instance play games according to the children´s age, personalities that helps to saving the world?
Giving children/youngsters tasks in the game that they think is reasonable for them and they can solve. This will give them motivation to go on until they can get the goals. Playing a game together is also give the player the feelings that the other players won´t leave the game until the end. They will be there playing with us until the goal.
Would it be enough as crazy ideas?
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