Through the eyes of a Mentor
I’m thankful that I could have a slight insight at the MCC course which had a good atmosphere, was compiled with care and brought up interesting topics. Thank you so much, MCC!
As a ‘digital immigrant’ (with top grades in e-learning and digital pedagogy, however) I certainly found the topic of digital footprints and the digital lingo of youngsters exciting (if for nothing else, for the sake of not being a fossil or a ‘digital mummy’).
Even though as a mentor I was busy taking pictures, I was amazed listening to the digital language used everyday by the young people in my group. I became quite knowledgeable at acronyms like ‘brb’ and ‘gg’. To my pleasure, some deep moral issues were mixed into the cheerful conversations. I was happy to see that our kids managed to surprise dr. Ági Veszelszki, the well-prepared and fantastic lecturer with new and unique ideas and metaphors with serious philosophical content.
I also learnt that generations Y, Z and alpha, whose lives are greatly influenced by János Neumann’s great invention, uses way different language structures and I have to get accustomed to their ‘common lingo’ in order to better understand each other. These and other innovative techniques, such as the word cloud or the identity diagram, will be very useful in my everyday work.
Thank you so much, MCC!
Angéla Sárközi V, mentor
LOL – digital way of talking
We have participated in a training as a result of winning a competition announced by the Csányi Foundation, supported by MCC (24th January). With my group we went to Budapest exactly to Mathias Corvinus Collegium and we were talking about an actual topics of nowadays. The starting point and the main theme was the digital communication. The most popular and mostly used communal page is the Facebook. We were talking about the differences between dialect and “digilektus” in a playful way. We were separated into two groups and argued besides if people can have real friends on the Internet. We could see a lot of new programs for example word cloud which is good for doing a great home-essay. We were also talking about ourselves, our groups, societies and friends make us who we are. The question that what will be with our language some years later was emerged a lot. After the talk and the common lunch we went to Syma hall to Educatio exhibition. It was so interesting and to ask question for the students and not just reading on the Internet. It was a useful day, and I think it was important for everybody because of the choice of career.
Nikoletta Balogh, Kaposvár 2