{"id":396,"date":"2020-08-29T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/?p=396"},"modified":"2020-08-29T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:53:12","slug":"activity-1-4-3-2-1-digital-facilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/activity-1-4-3-2-1-digital-facilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity 1-4 |3-2-1. Digital Facilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“life is just one big balancing act”<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0NCinDC<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The ubiquity of digital technologies has significantly impacted education and learning; innovations like eLearning, mobile learning, immersive and simulated learning, and the list go on, so I will stop here. The pandemic crisis has heightened the need for digital technologies in education to bridge physical distancing issues to promote safety. Our role as educators and facilitators is to ensure a balance between the use of education technology and the learners we are supposed to serve.<\/p>\n

I chose the image of a man performing a balancing act because I believe, as an educator, it is my role to ensure there is a balance between education technologies, inclusivity, and access. As I ponder on this thought, the ideas that came to mind about digital facilitation are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Digital facilitation is about using digital technology to facilitate either synchronous or asynchronous learning sessions.<\/li>\n
  2. Digital facilitation can enhance human connection and promote cultural tolerance, inclusivity, and access to learning for almost every learner if done right.<\/li>\n
  3. Digital facilitation can act as a bridge to work collaboratively with other groups. It can enhance a community of learners through either synchronous or asynchronous coaching and support.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As we continue to promote education technologies to enhance and mediate learning, burning questions I have are:<\/p>\n

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    1. How can educators and facilitators enhance their digital skills, including cultural competencies, in facilitating a virtual learning environment?<\/li>\n
    2. Is digital facilitation only exclusive to virtual facilitation? If I am in the classroom, using digital technologies to enhance learning, e.g., Kahoot to poll questions, storyline to present learning objectives and case studies in an interactive way, would that be considered digital facilitation?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      “life is just one big balancing act”\u00a0by\u00a0NCinDC\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY-ND 2.0   The ubiquity of digital technologies has significantly impacted education and learning; innovations like eLearning, mobile learning, immersive and simulated learning, and the list go on, so I will stop here. The pandemic crisis has heightened the need for digital technologies in education to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt528","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0118\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}