~Reactionary Post to both Robyn and Emma’s Edublogs~
After reading Emma’s response to Robyn’s post on No! We Don’t Just Need Training and Support! That one of the best ways of learning is learning from your own mistakes. In saying that I mean once you learn from you mistake you can improve from the errors and gain new knowledge and ways of tackling it (if they ever occur again).
I also agree with Emma and Robyn that students who are provided with the opportunity to progress at their own pace and reflect on their learning which will entitle the kids to have an enriching learning experience.
Like Emma points out through a reflective piece teachers are able to monitor the work of the kids and provide a facilitated learning environment that would see the growth of these children.
Poice!
Miss Lee
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~Reaction Post to Trisso~
After reading Trisso’s Edublog on Jane Gee who wrote an article on the success and failure of implementation of interactive whiteboards into Barnier Public School. From trisso’s edublog this trial indicated that boards did not necessarily improve pedagogical outcomes, but did improve student engagement.
Similarly I have the same ideal as Trisso, I believe that interaction and engagement is an very important aspect for motivation towards learning and work.
Nonetheless as teachers we have to be open that everyone have different learning techniques. The interactive boards may be an effective tool for those who are visual learners compared to the those who learn best by just absorbing the content that is given.
Poice!
Miss LEE
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~Reaction post to Alice and Steph~
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After reading Alice’s Edublog on the 6C and the reaction post of Stephanie Chan response to Alice, I believe it’s true that motivation is an essential tool to keep learning engaging.
Simply the 6C;s of motivation is:
- Choice
- Challenge
- Control
- Collaboration
- Construction Meaning
- Consequences
I think in my next practicum I would like to incorporate this model in my teachings. So that my student will stay motivated and engaged with my teaching. Though I also do agree with Stephanie and Alice that not everyone is motivated by the same source, everyone is unique and different! That is the beauty of teaching where “we” as teacher have to learn how to adapt to suit the required teaching method to get the curriculum done.
Poice!
Miss Lee
Technology is it reliable???
Freedman’s article highlights one of the problems associated with technology in education, its reliability. Although there has been increasing claims to use technology to support learning, it must be realised that not all technology is going to have a positive impact.
The source in particular is the internet. From the article, there is evidence that information on the internet is not reliable and can be altered and added by anyone at times. This is problematic in the sense that children may view information and accept it as truth, when now it is even harder to decipher which information is relevant and which isn’t. I agree with this view and the need to temper the push for technology into learning.
It follows that what a child is taught should be relevant given their age and capabilities for example. So the methods in which their taught should be relevant given the aims of the teachers. As mentioned, this is now harder to distinguish so it is up to the teachers and educators to fill this responsibility. Another appropriate point would be that students themselves need to learn how to critique and verify the information that they are presented. This again, remains a teacher’s responsibility but it is a vital skill if a child is going to be able to process and evaluate the effectiveness of information that they may be presented in this day and age, where access is easy and free.
Poice!
Miss Lee
A reaction blog to Jasmine & Soda’s Blog
Well… after searching through my peer’s edublogs I realised that Jasmine and Soda (Andrea) and I all have read the same article about cyber bullying.
What we all 3 have in common is the fact that bullying from how generation has changed so much. Back in our day we didn’t have much access to internet or to mobile devices that today children can have. I remember internet didn’t start to revolutionaries until I was in year 5 progressing into year 6.
Both Jasmine and Soda have really pin pointed out Dr Anne Bamford’s Cyber bullying conference note that cyber bullying is so “hidden” that sometimes its hard to detect unless your really in it yourself. Overall this article has really clarified the difference between bullying and cyber bullying.
Poice!
Miss Lee
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What will happen in the next 5 years?
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The Horizon report has indicated that six new forms of technology may be introduced within the next five years to be involved in teaching. They are grassroots videos, collaboration webs, mobile broadband, data mashups, collective intelligence and social operating systems.
The first two are in the first adoption horizon and are expected to assume entry in the next year. The next two are expected to be adopted sometime in the next two to three years whilst collective intelligence and social operating systems may not be introduced for four or five years.
From what I can tell each of these methods have their own merits for adoption but these may not all be relevant for primary school children. For example, are children really capable of capturing grassroots videos that are relevant for their education? On that note, are they even capable of choosing what is relevant for their own learning? This is only the first suggestion at hand but children must be able to access this technology to begin with. It is true that is available in abundance within their lives as they have high levels of exposure, but such a reliance on technology may not be relevant for such methods. Children are not usually entrusted with technology that is expensive and is usually done so in the presence of an adult.
Poice!
Miss Lee
My Podcast on Douglas Colbeck
This is a report I read by Douglas Colbeck from the University of Tasmania.
Below is my thoughts on a podcast!
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Relationship between play and learning!
Lloyd P Rieber wrote an interesting journal piece in regards to the relationship between ‘play’ and ‘learning’. This perspective varies with my own experiences where play and learning are integrated, by using play to instigate learning. On the other hand, Rieber suggests that play should be used a new form of learning.
I have always supported the notion that learning should be made to be as fun as possible but this is a new stretch of the imagination. Firstly it is based on motivating the children to learn. This is different to anything I have experienced because teachers have used different forms of motivation to start the child learning. Rieber on the other hand proposes a model that uses play to ensure that motivation is sustained for a long period throughout. There is a positive emphasis that motivational outcomes are just as vital as the cognitive ones whilst educating young children.
A second important point is the acknowledgement that technology is becoming an increasingly important feature of a children’s upbringing. Rieber proposes the use of digital multimedia as a constant form of learning for children. I believe the reasons for doing so are valid because there is a significant increase in the use of technology, but it is also adaptable for the teacher and can be used to combine play and learning together. Furthermore, it is also easily developed and can be changed continually to meet the needs of the children.
Poice!
Miss Lee
Effective tools for learning???
After viewing Prensky’s speech about learning and engagement I have learnt to understand that the differences between the psyches of children from different generations.
A problem is that learning is for a younger generation but it is conducted and overlooked by the older generation, choosing methods that were appropriate for them. This is the basis for Prensky’s evaluation that gaming can be an effective tool for learning. Old methods are no longer successful because the younger generations are different, they’re able to take in and process information more quickly, they like it differently and have different expectations about life for them. Older generations struggle to learn why kids spend so much time gaming rather than outside.
From the speech I realise that there is indeed a significant difference between the generations that has been instigated by one thing, technology. Games can produce learning by engagement, as kids now believe that games are the most intellectually engaging things in their lives.
By simply observing the behaviour patterns of children educators can realised that games can be used effectively although little connection has been made between them. Once kids have learnt something through engagement, they want to learn with the same form of engagement all the time.
It is this aspect of gaming and its ability to engage children that must be harnessed and used for educational purposes. By knowing their interests we can use it our ends, though it must be questioned, how do we develop this form of engagement?
POice!
Miss LEE
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~A reaction post to Docree~
So who’s teaching WHO????
After reading Docree edublog on who’s teaching who? This blog made me reflect on my primary education. Now reflecting I believed that I was pretty computer literate back in primary school, however I am awfully wrong! When I was in year 3 I didn’t know how to do a powerpoint presentation (let alone knew that this program existed)! My practicum children in year 3 are very literate in terms of powerpoint.
We have a smart board in our classroom, and at first I didn’t even know the “cool” functions that the kids knew about. They had to teach me how to use it interactively. I mean who you kidding? Children have grown up in a more technology based era then ever seen in history.
I agree with Docree that Students entering today’s classrooms are digital natives who have grown up with technology and are not aware of a lifestyle that does not include computers, mobile phones, electronic gaming and the many other things that are a natural part of their day.
I hope that as a teacher I will not fall behind with technology as it has become such a necessity in today’s society! To fall behind will mean being left behind and to catch up will sure take heaps of brain power!!!
Poice!
Miss Lee
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