Strengths
- Encourages students to approach the topic from a variety of different angles
- The topic can be discussed in an easy to navigate framework used by many students
- Students contribute to an ‘information bank’.
Weaknesses
- Requires ongoing moderation
- Information may duplicate, requiring consolidation
- Informal discussion tends to encourage experience based comments rather than academic arguments
Opportunities
- Will controversy stimulate greater passion, discussion, and research?
Threats
- Can the learning group be trusted with a modifiable webpage?
What is the world coming to?? Mobile phones in schools? Surely not! What a great debate to set the scene for an introduction to digital pedagogies in the 21st century.
By reading some of the comments posted by peers it seems that debate was obviously passion driven as evidence was routinely used to back up highly opinionated arguments.
Having the ability to approach this in depth topic from a number of angles was also beneficial to completely explore the complexity associated with the effects of mobile phones as a learning and teaching tool in schools.
I think the message from this activity is that e.Learning design can be hugely beneficial by engaging children in the digital world we live in, but at the same time, we must also be aware of the risks children may be open to by doing so.
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