First Blog for the MSTU 4020 This Semester Blog 1

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Thinking 25 Years Into the Future

The Beyond Current Horizon programme portraits three scenarios in its discussion about the future of education and the assumption about how social structures, values, and institutions affect the operation and development of education. Among those scenarios, I think the "Trust Yourself" is the most viable after 25 years. The advancement of technology has increased the mobility …

Blog-7 Research Progress and Reflection

I got comments from Professor Gorski last week, making sure I was on the right path. So I continued searching papers relevant to instructional videos on YouTube. Unsurprisingly, most researches focused specific subject like math and programming and sampled merely one scenario which is normally a school or a training program. The conclusion of those …

Blog-6 Research Progress and Reflection

My ongoing research is about the features of successful and popular YouTube tutorials. Since my last literature critique for the midterm was about the research conducted 5 years ago, the research might not be up-to-date due to the fast development of digital media. To better understand what the online self-taught community needs as instructional materials, …

Blog5 – Responding to Classmate’s questions about Presented Critique

Guys, you're awesome! The course of the week before last week gave me a lot of thoughts on diverse topics related to education and ICT which I would have no chance and time to explore on my own. Everyone shared their critiques and summaries of those articles while listening to others' opinions. I really appreciate …

Blog4-Straddling the Virtuality and Reality

Increasingly being aware of the impact of ICT and social media on our lives, as a result of reading articles claiming those influences and research results during those weeks, I started to examine my surrounding environment and question those media I'm using every day. Shockingly, some subtle feeling I initially had about some phenomenon on those …

Blog3-The How and Where of Social Life on the Internet

This week's blog will briefly go over some of the required readings and summaries their main points, combined with my personal understanding of it, which I hope to help everyone comprehend those passages in a more concise way. To show my thoughts on the two questions raised by the professor, I would put them first …

Week-2: Reflections on Class Discussion and the Technology Determinism

Over last week's discussion, we are required to show our stances and attitudes towards the relationship between social culture and technology development. It's no wonder that none chose to believe that technology determine and shape our social culture completely as well as that none chose the opposite site. However, astonishingly, most of our students chose …