Food for Thought: Role of an LMS
This morning while getting around, I was watching Twitter for my usual morning food for thought. During it I started following a twitter chat (the #coffeecue happening at #ISTE2014) about redesigning the learning environment. The chat started about the redesigning off the physical classroom - I confess not as much interest to me, but still interesting to follow. Then it took a turn with the following tweet - and it got me thinking, hard. And after reflecting on it I've come to the following thoughts/beliefs - many teachers reconstruct/mirror their physical space into the online arena we talk about tearing down the walls of our classroom....and then turn around and build walls in our online environments I think we have a big misperception of an LMS - that it needs to be the be-all and end-all to where our students' learning takes place online. And it shouldn't Instead of thinking of an LMS as the structure, we need to think of it as the gatew...