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Yes and No, again it comes back to differing learning styles, study habits as well as getting someone to try or engage/communicate in a way that they may have never or feel the confidence to do so. Technology can engage the 'silent' student but this should be done in stages/tasks where the student may not even realise that they are even doing so this because it's related to a meaningful learning outcome.
On saying that we should not assume that a silent student is not learning! There are stages to participation in technology and we all have probably been there and evolved just as technology has - passive lurkers to active contributors and participators!
Discussion
Yes and No, again it comes back to differing learning styles, study habits as well as getting someone to try or engage/communicate in a way that they may have never or feel the confidence to do so. Technology can engage the 'silent' student but this should be done in stages/tasks where the student may not even realise that they are even doing so this because it's related to a meaningful learning outcome.
On saying that we should not assume that a silent student is not learning! There are stages to participation in technology and we all have probably been there and evolved just as technology has - passive lurkers to active contributors and participators!
Sukhtinder
2:07pm 7 September 2009
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