{"id":2769,"date":"2019-02-11T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2019-02-10T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T16:20:39","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-towards-eschool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-towards-eschool\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is\u00a0<i>Towards eSchool<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers published a collection of articles,\u00a0<em>Towards eSchool (<\/em>in\u00a0Finnish\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suomentietokirjailijat.fi\/medialle\/julkaisut\/sahkoistyva-koulu-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S\u00e4hk\u00f6istyv\u00e4 koulu<\/a>)<\/em>\u00a0which can be downloaded from<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the association\u2019s website. The collection aims to offer multiple perspectives on digital learning, and includes articles by 20 writers. I have picked three digital pros and three digital cons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digi cons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antti Pirhonen: With digital learning,\u00a0the expertise of teachers is not utilized, but pedagogical understanding is replaced by \u201dpolished arguments of a local ICT supplier\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Hakkarainen and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen: Teachers are using digital technology for everyday writing and basic tasks, but they are not applying it to larger projects and more demanding information building.<\/p>\n<p>Timo Tossavainen: The advantages of elearning materials are mostly justified by automating the work of the teacher, not by new learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digi pros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johannes Pernaa and Simo Veistola: Challenging phenomena, for example in chemistry teaching, can be offered in an e-book as interactive simulations or animations.<\/p>\n<p>Teuvo Sankila: If materials are in electronic format, the content is easy to translate and localize for different needs.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Hakkarainen and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen: Mobile and wireless technologies make it possible to transform any location into a learning space.<\/p>\n<p>In my own article, I recommended an additional benefit:\u00a0the potential for\u00a0global networking and\u00a0the\u00a0interaction of experts\u00a0on my favorite\u00a0channel Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Finnish Non-fiction Writers published a collection of articles,\u00a0Towards eSchool (in\u00a0Finnish\u00a0S\u00e4hk\u00f6istyv\u00e4 koulu)\u00a0which can be downloaded from\u00a0the association\u2019s website. The collection aims to offer multiple perspectives on digital learning, and includes articles by 20 writers. I have picked three digital pros and three digital cons. Digi cons Antti Pirhonen: With digital learning,\u00a0the expertise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2771,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}