tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32153171.post2973205741721506709..comments2023-11-05T23:01:43.451+13:00Comments on Gavin's Blog: Day 2 - IN "the diary of a digital immigrant"Gavin McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11795728026326921107noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32153171.post-38364647362073091722007-08-08T20:32:00.000+12:002007-08-08T20:32:00.000+12:00good thing that you have that video footage, Gavin...good thing that you have that video footage, Gavin - I'm sure you'll find it very insightful. It's the problem with 'practitioner research' like this - not always able to see everything you need to when you are so involved. <BR/>Re your comment on prior experience - that would be my hunch too - the challenge from a research perspective is to discover how you can <EM>prove</EM> that - what evidence can you find to validate that hunch?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32153171.post-50389893902498622112007-08-08T19:51:00.000+12:002007-08-08T19:51:00.000+12:00Also - They also tended to multi task better than ...Also - They also tended to multi task better than me - while they were playing they were also playing with the map settings, trying different commands, exploring menus etc They would then announce to the group generally " the ...does..." or " try doing this"..as I said the language transcripts will reveal some rich data on this I hope...GGavin McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11795728026326921107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32153171.post-10987312246754211782007-08-08T19:48:00.000+12:002007-08-08T19:48:00.000+12:00yes exactly - here we can move towards some of the...yes exactly - here we can move towards some of the issues involved in how I have decided to do my research in the sense that I have placed my self as a learner in the same situation as the students, and my slowness at the game meant that I was not seeing what the were doing. I have the session on video, and while I have my desktop on video as well, It would be great in future to have the ability to view all the screens simultaneously somehow and be able to switch to the one where some interesting interaction was happening relative to the dialogue in the room. As I said the issue of recording on video in real time each screen separately then going back and capturing different sections would be a huge task. I am hoping to be able to shed some light on your point when I analyse the video of the room to get some clues from their dialogue what is happening in the game. Some kind of screen system which allowed me to switch to the each PC would be fantastic.<BR/><BR/>To answer your question, I think it was very much prior experience, they knew instinctively to immediately start killing creatures and amassing points as fast as possible, whereas I stumbled around looking for different clues admiring the landscape, checking the camera etc.My approach was not as aggressive and fast. They played at a much faster pace than I did and understood the controls a lot faster.Gavin McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11795728026326921107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32153171.post-9954400552353754792007-08-08T00:50:00.000+12:002007-08-08T00:50:00.000+12:00Gavin - thanks for the detailed write-up of your '...Gavin - thanks for the detailed write-up of your 'journey'. Day two certainly appears to have gone better than day one - perhaps because of the reflection you did?<BR/><BR/>I'm interested in your comment about the way the students appeared to get through the first 8 levels much more quickly than you did - and then label them 'digital natives'. While I'd acknowledge that this sort of observation is entirely consistent with the sort of expectations that people like Prensky and others attribute to the so-called digital natives, I'd be interested to know whether, through your interactions with the students, you are able to identify in more pragmatic terms what exactly it was about these levels that they found so easy - what enabled them to navigate through them so quickly etc? (eg - previous experience, trial and error, watching each other, hidden cues and clues etc)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com