{"id":19,"date":"2004-12-04T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T03:28:31","slug":"jit-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/jit-learning-19","title":{"rendered":"JIT Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the forums on the Web are awesome - the community of learners\/helpers out there is really interesting to observe. [I have been looking at javascript coding forums to try to solve a problem I came up with - it is easy to spend a lot of time going through unrelated problems and their solutions - the learning value is immense.] The Just In Time learning trend is well and truly entrenched.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have people that have an immediate real learning need and have the opportunity to get help from some volunteer authority on the Web. <\/p>\n<p>What do the volunteers get out of it? Probably:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a 'warm inner glow' from having helped someone out<\/li>\n<li>a learning experience (you often only really understand something when you have to explain it to someone else)<\/li>\n<li>a problem solving experience, which hones their skills<\/li>\n<li>[a cynical one maybe] an ego boost (I know more than you)<\/li>\n<li>a fleeting moment of social intercourse in their Coke- and pizza-filled often-solitary existence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are the implications for learning in the future? Will we move towards a more problem-based approach where students go out to get help with real problems they are having - rather than just learn a lot of 'content' by rote to pass some exam? Will it mean more use of chat by educators - usually in the hours of 10:00 pm to midnight when most students are trying to figure things out?<\/p>\n<p>I have to mention that I have noticed a lot of laziness, with people posting things like...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Please help<\/strong><br \/>\nDoes anyone got code to fade image using CSS?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh brother...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the forums on the Web are awesome - the community of learners\/helpers out there is really interesting to observe. [I have been looking at javascript coding forums to try to solve a problem I came up with - it is easy to spend a lot of time going through unrelated problems and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}