Your online learning experiences
Hopefully you will agree that you are an online learner – this is because it is impossible to be online without being a learner.
In Section 1.1.1, you thought about what activities you carry out online. Using one of the activities you carry out online from the previous section, answer these questions:
- What was my activity?
- Why did I do this?
- What did I learn about?
- What other activity did it lead onto?
- What skills did I develop?
An example is provided below in Table 1.
| What was my activity? | I looked up a newly opened market place a friend had told me that it is safe to buy things during the covid-19 outbreak. |
| Why did I do this? | I wanted to see if I find it safe to shop. |
| What did I learn about? | The opening hours, whether it is less crowded or not, and availability of things I to need to buy. |
| What other activity did it lead onto? | I found out more about the market place that needed to book ahead to shop there and the safety of using shopping cart. |
| What skills did I develop? | Online searching. |
If you have the time, you might like to repeat this exercise for another example of your online activity.
But what does this tell you about your online learning? You may be surprised by the range of things you do online or to see this in terms of learning. If you are, remember that we are always learning, it’s the only way to make sense of the world around us, of which the internet is playing an increasingly important part.
1.1.2 From going online to learning online