Lifelong Learning and the connection between ICT's and the future.

Lifelong learning is the status for education, which in a nutshell, describes the ideals that we are focussed on as learning teachers of today.

Learning is a daily process in which we subconsciously do, not only as children growing up, but as adults also, we learn new things every single day without realising it. Although, the times have changed in the way that we learn.

We have gone from a simple, yet methodically approached learning in the early 1900 to a more informed, less structured and more Technology based future which has completely changed the way our learning is substituted.

For instance, connectivism and Seiman's theory states that this is the 21st century and our students have evolved completely on the basis that technology is the way of the future, regardless of socio economic status and there is nothing we can do about it. Technology will further increase it's capabilities and learning online has taken over libraries and books.

Learning is more about blogging/wikis and collaborative learning through ICT's. Sharing this information with the world, local community and fellow students is the only way we will learn from each other.

A perfect example is this course and the new CQU moodle site which is completely online, and we are all contributing the the forum with our own ideas, yet at the same time, we are all far from each other geographically. We can still learn, and help each other, and what a fantastic tool.

I, myself, am a visual learner and found the You tube uploads quite helpful, as I seemed to skim over the majority of the larger scales of text as my mind seems to get lost. Although, writing however, is a different story !

You need to pay attention, because Learning is lifelong and relative. To teach is one thing, but to engage the learner, is another.