Activity 3: Roles of learners with ICT

Group Activity 3 - Learners' Charter - a collaborative exercise

In this activity you will experience the power of collaboration by developing a Learners' Charter with your tutors. You will produce one collaborative online document. Follow these guidelines to complete this activity.

1. Your brief is, through the use of an online collaborative document, to develop a Learners' Charter. Imagine that this Charter is developed by learners who wish to assert their rights to learn effectively with ICT integration.
   
   
2. First brainstorm the issues that should be raised in the Charter i.e. what are learners' rights to effective teaching and learning with ICT? Using the brainstorm tool that your tutors have set up for you, identify the rights that you think learners should have to effective teaching with ICT.
   
3. After about 2 days of receiving brainstorm updates, evaluate the contributions and identify one item that you would like to add to the charter - one sentence that makes a statement in support of how learners should be able to learn with ICT.
   
4. Now go to the online collaborative document that your tutors have set up. Write your Learners' Charter sentence. This happens on a "first-come-first-served basis". For instance, if someone else in your group has written a sentence about access to ICT, you should choose a different issue to add to the charter or you could decide to comment on a sentence.
   
5. As the process unfolds reflect on the process and, if necessary, discuss with the group how the process can be improved. You are a collaborative group, so you have to solve problems collaboratively as well.
   
6. Provide input to each sponsored sentence and try to improve it and make it more effective and correct as a sentence that describes the rights of learners who learn with ICT. Be critical and positive in your comment. Make sure that everyone understands the issues the way that you do.
   
7. Your tutors will facilitate this process as necessary and provide a timeframe for this activity.
   
8. Complete this activity by making reflective comments in yourblog about the onlline collaborative exercise as well as the Learners' Charter.