LEARNING IN DIGITAL CULTURE
What is
culture? And what is the importance of it?
Culture is related to the development of one's
attitude. One's culture plays an important role in shaping the principles of
the individual's life; culture shapes the personality of a community. The
cultural values of an individual have a deep impact on his/her attitude towards
life. According to the behaviorist definition of culture, it is the ultimate
system of social control where people monitor their own standards and behavior.
The importance of culture cannot be stressed enough as it is an integral part
of living. On the other hand now the new culture is developing which is called
digital or cyber culture. Digital culture is an environment where
teachers and students use available ICT
technology.
Digital culture
has following characteristic in contrast to conventional culture:
1. Constant availability
2. Wide range of information
3. Easy access
In spite of
above mentioned benefits one major obstacle in cyber culture is growing use of
passwords and monetary involvement to restrict information.
On the other
hand free information is also available in abundance but authenticity and
quality cannot be assured.
As the
present world is becoming mainly commercial oriented digital information is
also commercialized.
The example
of Digital culture is like an umbrella where all sides of cultures merge in to
it, where the information can be obtained and passed on without any hesitation,
instead of F2F culture where people will be hesitant and shy in communicating with
each other.
Recently I
completed my PGCTHE course in e-learning in higher education. This course was entirely
based on digital culture and it gave me the experience of digital leaning in
cyber culture.
Hi Annie,
ReplyDeleteI agree with the benefits you mentioned on digital culture; availability, amount of information and easy access. But as you mentioned the coin has two sides. It´s too easy to communicate thoughtless online and there is so much irrelevant information too. Online learning might play here an important role too, to learn people how to behave and use digital media properly.
Regards, Tuire
Hi Annie,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your Topic task 2.
You have raised some relevant issues and special characteristicis of digital culture. By the way, what are the sources/references you have used in this reflection task?
What is your opinion (Teräs et al, 2012) that a virtual learning community create / negotiates its own culture? What is your reaction to this statement? What experiences do you have of this is based PGCTHE?