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Where’s my Slide Rule??? The changing landscape of technology in higher education

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Giuseppe (Joe) Nucifora Student No. 12067237 OLTC20006 Learning In A Digital Age Assignment 2: Rejoinder/Response Where’s My Slide Rule??? The changing landscape of technology In higher education Further to our previous staff meeting and recent staff meeting it appears that there were some concerns regarding digital learning and teaching. The notion that ‘chalk and talk’ represents the only tried and true way of teaching and that technology is but a passing fad – and its introduction results in undue pressure on staff to change - require an objective response. Rather than discuss the intricacies and higher-level technical detail of Virtual Reality (VR) – my area of expertise – it seemed more relevant and useful to discuss with my colleague the broader contextual view of the affordances of technology in teaching.   For this reason, my more generalized responses to the three main objections are discussed below. Chalk and Talk – Old school
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VR/AR - Using Technology in Education

The invention of the first VR headset by computer scientist Ivan Sutherland in 1958 was the beginning of augmented and virtual reality 3D display. It was not long ago we were communicating by the home telephone and whereas these days we can communicate as well as send and receive messages anywhere in the world with our smart devices. The virtual reality market is expected to be worth over 5 billion dollars by the end of 2018 and an estimated worth in excess of 209 billion dollars by 2022, (Statista, 2014). What is the difference between Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)? They equally have remarkable capability to alter our view and perception of the world but are very different as VR is created from a virtual environment and AR combines the real world with a virtual creation. Both can be used for games and in a professional environment for business or education viewed with dedicated headsets worn for lengthy periods . Take a look at VR and AR to see the differe
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Virtual or Augmented Reality in Education

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I have taken interest in ways of improving the pedagogy delivery of the course in Film production to my students in a fun and exciting method through technology like Virtual Reality. The students of today are savvy with technology and are so immersed into VR games and smartphones. What are Virtual and Augmented Realities? https://youtu.be/f9MwaH6oGEY Incorporating VR into some areas of difficult to understand concepts could help students with the pedagogy and metacognition. Building on knowledge, strategies for learning and problem solving. “I do and I understand” We retain most subject matter through experiences.” Of course, there are other things to consider such costs for computers for 3D modelling and rendering, animators, setup requirements for classroom and VR headsets for each student and facilitators. According to Redbrick Research in an article by Tom Cannon 2017, Virtual Reality is making its way into the higher education and looks to becoming p
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Microblogging

The course is not fully online therefore it would combine face to face, practical and online collaboration and learning and assessments for the students. I will take a look at your suggestion on microblogging to see if there are benefits for students discussing or collaborating Film production ideas and concepts to assist students in acquiring technical knowledge and skills through social media groups like Twitter. I would be concerned if students in an open worldwide group environment would take information that could be illegal or infringe copyright. I would not be able to check everybody's movements and connections to give any proper advise. A benefit could be to discussion software or equipment suitability and acquisition or to solve technical issues or tutorials with production filming, lighting, sound and editing would be a great advantage to build on knowledge and skills within a collaborative interactive social environment. Within the classroom the intended go
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Thoughts on learning

My name is Joe Nucifora and I teach Diploma of Screen Media (VET) at The Australian Performing Arts Conservatory in Brisbane. As the institute will be teaching Higher Education next year I will be looking forward in finding ways to combine   face to face, practical and online collaboration and learning and assessments for the students . I am looking forward to learning more about available technologies and hopefully be able to use the appropriate technology to better my students skills and make my teaching much more enjoyable and manageable. When I first started teaching three years ago I was introduced to a class to teach face to face in the old school method where I would feed the class verbally, read or illustrate the information that I wanted the students to have then the students would take notes, following the text book and reconstruct what was taught in class. Homework was the exercise of the day and the learning was the reciting and memorizing the information for next days
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