If we look at both of Wenger’s and Prensky notions on both communities of practise and education, there would be a way in which we can relate them together.
With Wenger’s theory looking at communities of practise, what he tends to make his point more about is not that this includes hobby groups, but more of that it involves a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
Whilst Prensky’s theory takes a look at how students these days are using their technology knowledge to the advantage in their educational lives.
Prensky sees that we should be letting the students do what they do well, which is the use of technology as a tool, while the teachers and faculty sit back and rather than be technology users, ‘they’re guides, question askers, quality providers, then we can get a partnership’.
So the way we can relate these two theories together is that with students, as they have to same interest in technology, they can also be classed as a community of practice with having this general interest in common with one another.
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but couldn't you also argue that whereas the students are held back by the immigrants that the teachers are said to be, that it is the opposite that should be in operation in Wenger's mind, especially if they both share an enthusiasm for the same subject
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ReplyDeleteI think that they relate to eachother in the sense that Prenksy's views on how to educate 'digital natives' are trying to accomodate their enthusiams for social activiies - therefore relating to C of P's and their desire to have a community with similar interests etc.
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