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MY COLLABORATION EXPERIENCE 4.2.4

Frankly, I have never collaborated with someone on a task online like I have in the most recent assignment. It was fun. Despite all the challenges we had: power blackout here and there, network on and off, grasping of the whole comic concept and idea - to mention but a few, we had to work within time frames to see to it that the work is done. My partner was very instrumental in bringing pieces from here and there together and helped me see things I had actually missed. In all we each augmented one another and as the saying goes "Two heads are better than one". The important thing though was not the result but the process to the result. This is because in all this I got to know more about Simon (my partner) than about comic design itself. I got to know that the most important thing is developing a collaboration and valuing one another's effort in the process to produce a lasting network which can serve as a platform for future tasks assigned. As for the potential this has

CCTI 4.1.4 A Changing Education Landscape

There is a common demarcation made of two categories of individuals in the world today: Digital natives and digital immigrants . These are grouped essentially basing on the way they perceive and interact with digital media with the 'immigrants' (the older generation) failing to adapt to the rapid change in technology and the 'natives' (the younger generation) adapting at such a speed that they find it difficult to excel academically using the outdated teaching methods of the day used by their older digital immigrant ancestors. The gap created has made most of the teachers to defensively stick to their 'old ways of doing things' because of the fear of being embarrassed by their rather limited knowledge new digital technologies and how to effectively make use of it in the teaching learning process. They have in so doing forced their learners to abandon rich sources of knowledge causing their young minds to shut out whatever inspiration had lain dormant inside t