Comments on: The importance of heuristics in educational technology and elearning. http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/07/23/the-importance-of-heuristics-in-educational-technology-and-elearning/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Khttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/07/23/the-importance-of-heuristics-in-educational-technology-and-elearning/comment-page-1/#comment-5926 Andy K Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:55:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2682#comment-5926 I agree with you to a point... As someone who likes to be aware of what the various options are that are floating about, I still quite like that people say things to me like "Have you looked at XXXX" etc. as it enables me to see different ways of doing things I am already doing another way... Sometimes they will be better, sometimes worse... I don't always want or need examples of how they have used it as sometimes this colours my opinion of the product... I guess it depends upon who is asking and what they want to know... I agree with you to a point… As someone who likes to be aware of what the various options are that are floating about, I still quite like that people say things to me like “Have you looked at XXXX” etc. as it enables me to see different ways of doing things I am already doing another way… Sometimes they will be better, sometimes worse… I don’t always want or need examples of how they have used it as sometimes this colours my opinion of the product…

I guess it depends upon who is asking and what they want to know…

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/07/23/the-importance-of-heuristics-in-educational-technology-and-elearning/comment-page-1/#comment-5925 Anonymous Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:42:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2682#comment-5925 I agree Doug. The natural evolution is going to have those responsible for elearning across a school opting for 1 or 2. Time is always a factor. I think we must learn to say 'no, not yet' if we haven't developed/tested the pedagogy of a tool in a similar situation the teacher will be using it. Either that or have a link to someone that has used it. Voicethread is a good example of this. I can point potential users to demo voicethreads where teachers have showcased it to teachers. But the winner is always going to be showing them another teachers example/use in their specialist subject. Last year I started offering myself out to help plan and teach lessons using different tools. Even this was difficult because I had to battle the desire to show the teacher ten tools that demonstrated different ways IT might be used in their teaching. Heuristics: evidence of classroom application. It's like a teachmeet. Classroom practice please. Everything else is irrelevant. I agree Doug.

The natural evolution is going to have those responsible for elearning across a school opting for 1 or 2. Time is always a factor. I think we must learn to say ‘no, not yet’ if we haven’t developed/tested the pedagogy of a tool in a similar situation the teacher will be using it. Either that or have a link to someone that has used it. Voicethread is a good example of this. I can point potential users to demo voicethreads where teachers have showcased it to teachers. But the winner is always going to be showing them another teachers example/use in their specialist subject. Last year I started offering myself out to help plan and teach lessons using different tools. Even this was difficult because I had to battle the desire to show the teacher ten tools that demonstrated different ways IT might be used in their teaching.

Heuristics: evidence of classroom application. It’s like a teachmeet. Classroom practice please. Everything else is irrelevant.

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