Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Assessment Item 2 Learning e.journal
And the so the journey began. Eight weeks ago I never would have believed that so much e learning was actively taking place within the educational system. E-learning provides opportunities that interest and engage the students in a diverse range of topics and encourage learning. McInerney & McInerney (2006, p. 10) state "before any learning can take place, the attention and interest of the learner must be gained." Neale (2001, p. 15) also suggests “e-learning, when done well, can be as good or better, than being in the classroom. http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/skype.html
Today’s students are continually demanding to be engaged within the 21st Century. They are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of learning that teachers are now providing (Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999)).ICT within the workplace is has no boundaries. My Learning Placement has confirmed the Engagement Theory (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/engagement-theory.html) in that by stretching the skill levels of the students in which we teach not only extends their knowledge in their class topics but also allows and encourages the students to actively participate within the classroom.
The 8 Learning Management Questions mentioned in my blog (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/wikimania.html) suggest that learning managers should firstly consider LMQ 345 How does my learner best learn? What resources do I have at my disposal? And what will constitute an authentic learning journey? before students are engaged in learning. Many if not all students have had exposure to computers. Like myself the amount of exposure varies.
The engagement theory (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/engagement-theory.html) suggests that students learn best through group interaction and communication with computerised tools. Students often collaborate by using computers and electronic devices in order to distribute and source information in relation to any given topic.
Blog and Wiki’s (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/wikimania.html) are multimodal tools that can include written text, pictures, photographs, audio and video or any combination of all these. http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/blogs.html.Dales Cone concludes that the most effective kind of learning in the modern era is from hands on experience. A blog or Wiki could be used as 'hooks' that links the class too many weeks of class work within the classroom and remotely. This kind of active learning will assist in teacher - student, student - teacher and student - student learning and will assist not to restrict discussions to the classroom. George Seimens also suggests “Blogs alone provide a different tool and the potential to reinvent how we work in classrooms, challenging teachers and students to think about learning in authentic ways”
Blogs could be used to facilitate class assignments and discussions on researched topics that could be peer reviewed and monitored. Wikis could be set up for students use to document procedures when using New ICTS so that next lesson they would as a class be able to reinvent the wheel as such. A Wiki also allows students to work collaboratively. Students would be able to actively plan and manage the wiki (RELATE) collaboratively. Students would be able to have control over the way the project is presented (CREATE) and students would allow restricted viewing from students outside the classroom (DONATE).
Skype (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/.html) however allows us to dream and travel to classrooms far away by means of virtual tours in just about any country in the world. Virtual field trips would allow students to explore such locations as the beach or famous landmarks that, they otherwise read about in books. Google Earth is another tool at the ready to assist and enrapture students and teachers alike. Depending on your KLA this tool could be used extensively.
During the course of my learning placement, I have been able to participate in making PowerPoint slides (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/powerpoint-is-not-only-for-teacher.html) for maths classes some have been teacher student centred and others have been student - student centred. Power point is used extensively throughout the school system. Used for the simplicity of a hook to settle students or as an assignment to extend students beyond paper based assignments.
I have assisted students to make Brochures (http://www.mybrochuremaker.com) for Business assignments incorporating Flickr photos, modifying them in Picknik. Students have enjoyed participating in Authentic and meaningful learning experiences (LMQ5) .I have become an active Skype (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/skype.html) user conversing with family and friends all over the world. You could now call me a virtual tourist (or cheapskate).
Interactive White Boards (IWB’s) (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/interactive-white-boards.html) when implemented will be the virtual tool that assists teachers to stimulate interaction. Teachers will be able to foster positive attitudes and perceptions from their learners (DOL1) the student centred learners enjoy the transformative capabilities of the IWB. The IWB has the potential to involve students in practical hands on design techniques. Encouraging students to expand their skills and align their learning with real life. The IWB could be used in every classroom and in most circumstances.
A Voki (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/children-and-vokis.html) is another fantastic tool that actively engages all ages. Students are instantly hooked as was I when Scott Aldred (2010) provided my first an avatar on moodle. A Voki could be extensively used in a composite 11/12 class a voki could be used to facilitate the beginning of the lesson and the processes to be followed until the teacher is available.
By the means of RSS connections teachers would be able to support, monitor (LMQ8) and edit projects online. The use of online communication would assist to facilitate the transfer of knowledge. This tool could be used to monitor assignments in progress. The use of the RSS has assisted me to enjoy reading my peers blogs through my Google reader account .http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-set-up-your-blog.html
Email has also allowed contact between mentor teachers and myself over the course of my Learning placement. Moodle provides a forum in which I am able to actively or passively engage in conversations.
Finally for my own personal and professional development a wonderful virtual filing cabinet called Mahara (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html) This site will be a lifelong work in progress. This tool will store files, resources, and personal and employment details. The use is endless. Students also would be able to use this tool in the same manner allowing them to collate in the one place a continual portfolio of their learning journey.
Some of the peers that I have commented on:
I have enjoyed viewing many blogs but I am unable to direct you to those in which I have participated. These are the blogs that I have actively followed through Google Reader
http://eplumb10a2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://miriamsblogonprimaryedu.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://cindywilson2010.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://e-learning-engagement.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://learningjourneycaro.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/103/feed
http://emmaeborn2010.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://emmateachingjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://anjalidatar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://kyliegupwell.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
http://michaelhensonsgdltblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://missmollenhagen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://samanthasjourney-gdlt.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Reference:
Aldred, S. (2010). EDED20491 - ICTs for learning design: Study guide. Rockhampton, Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
Elearning viewed 29 April 2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning
Felder, R & Solomon, B,. (2004). Learning styles and strategies. Retrieved from http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.
Lucas, G. (2007). George Lucas: Sharing his hope for education at dreamforce. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/george-lucas-education-dreamforce-2007.
Marzano, R., & Pickering, D. (2006). Dimensions of learning: Teachers manual (2nd ed.). Victoria, Australia: Hawker Brownlow Education.
Today’s students are continually demanding to be engaged within the 21st Century. They are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of learning that teachers are now providing (Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999)).ICT within the workplace is has no boundaries. My Learning Placement has confirmed the Engagement Theory (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/engagement-theory.html) in that by stretching the skill levels of the students in which we teach not only extends their knowledge in their class topics but also allows and encourages the students to actively participate within the classroom.
The 8 Learning Management Questions mentioned in my blog (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/wikimania.html) suggest that learning managers should firstly consider LMQ 345 How does my learner best learn? What resources do I have at my disposal? And what will constitute an authentic learning journey? before students are engaged in learning. Many if not all students have had exposure to computers. Like myself the amount of exposure varies.
The engagement theory (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/engagement-theory.html) suggests that students learn best through group interaction and communication with computerised tools. Students often collaborate by using computers and electronic devices in order to distribute and source information in relation to any given topic.
Blog and Wiki’s (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/wikimania.html) are multimodal tools that can include written text, pictures, photographs, audio and video or any combination of all these. http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/blogs.html.Dales Cone concludes that the most effective kind of learning in the modern era is from hands on experience. A blog or Wiki could be used as 'hooks' that links the class too many weeks of class work within the classroom and remotely. This kind of active learning will assist in teacher - student, student - teacher and student - student learning and will assist not to restrict discussions to the classroom. George Seimens also suggests “Blogs alone provide a different tool and the potential to reinvent how we work in classrooms, challenging teachers and students to think about learning in authentic ways”
Blogs could be used to facilitate class assignments and discussions on researched topics that could be peer reviewed and monitored. Wikis could be set up for students use to document procedures when using New ICTS so that next lesson they would as a class be able to reinvent the wheel as such. A Wiki also allows students to work collaboratively. Students would be able to actively plan and manage the wiki (RELATE) collaboratively. Students would be able to have control over the way the project is presented (CREATE) and students would allow restricted viewing from students outside the classroom (DONATE).
Skype (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/.html) however allows us to dream and travel to classrooms far away by means of virtual tours in just about any country in the world. Virtual field trips would allow students to explore such locations as the beach or famous landmarks that, they otherwise read about in books. Google Earth is another tool at the ready to assist and enrapture students and teachers alike. Depending on your KLA this tool could be used extensively.
During the course of my learning placement, I have been able to participate in making PowerPoint slides (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/powerpoint-is-not-only-for-teacher.html) for maths classes some have been teacher student centred and others have been student - student centred. Power point is used extensively throughout the school system. Used for the simplicity of a hook to settle students or as an assignment to extend students beyond paper based assignments.
I have assisted students to make Brochures (http://www.mybrochuremaker.com) for Business assignments incorporating Flickr photos, modifying them in Picknik. Students have enjoyed participating in Authentic and meaningful learning experiences (LMQ5) .I have become an active Skype (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/skype.html) user conversing with family and friends all over the world. You could now call me a virtual tourist (or cheapskate).
Interactive White Boards (IWB’s) (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/interactive-white-boards.html) when implemented will be the virtual tool that assists teachers to stimulate interaction. Teachers will be able to foster positive attitudes and perceptions from their learners (DOL1) the student centred learners enjoy the transformative capabilities of the IWB. The IWB has the potential to involve students in practical hands on design techniques. Encouraging students to expand their skills and align their learning with real life. The IWB could be used in every classroom and in most circumstances.
A Voki (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/children-and-vokis.html) is another fantastic tool that actively engages all ages. Students are instantly hooked as was I when Scott Aldred (2010) provided my first an avatar on moodle. A Voki could be extensively used in a composite 11/12 class a voki could be used to facilitate the beginning of the lesson and the processes to be followed until the teacher is available.
By the means of RSS connections teachers would be able to support, monitor (LMQ8) and edit projects online. The use of online communication would assist to facilitate the transfer of knowledge. This tool could be used to monitor assignments in progress. The use of the RSS has assisted me to enjoy reading my peers blogs through my Google reader account .http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-set-up-your-blog.html
Email has also allowed contact between mentor teachers and myself over the course of my Learning placement. Moodle provides a forum in which I am able to actively or passively engage in conversations.
Finally for my own personal and professional development a wonderful virtual filing cabinet called Mahara (http://newkrisblog.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html) This site will be a lifelong work in progress. This tool will store files, resources, and personal and employment details. The use is endless. Students also would be able to use this tool in the same manner allowing them to collate in the one place a continual portfolio of their learning journey.
Some of the peers that I have commented on:
I have enjoyed viewing many blogs but I am unable to direct you to those in which I have participated. These are the blogs that I have actively followed through Google Reader
http://eplumb10a2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://miriamsblogonprimaryedu.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://cindywilson2010.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://e-learning-engagement.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://learningjourneycaro.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/103/feed
http://emmaeborn2010.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://emmateachingjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://anjalidatar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://kyliegupwell.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
http://michaelhensonsgdltblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://missmollenhagen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://samanthasjourney-gdlt.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Reference:
Aldred, S. (2010). EDED20491 - ICTs for learning design: Study guide. Rockhampton, Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
Elearning viewed 29 April 2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning
Felder, R & Solomon, B,. (2004). Learning styles and strategies. Retrieved from http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.
Lucas, G. (2007). George Lucas: Sharing his hope for education at dreamforce. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/george-lucas-education-dreamforce-2007.
Marzano, R., & Pickering, D. (2006). Dimensions of learning: Teachers manual (2nd ed.). Victoria, Australia: Hawker Brownlow Education.
Children and Voki's
The Voki has been a wonderful tool. It has brought joy to myself as well as my children. This Voki was on You tube I have watched it manytimes and each time I start to dream about different ways to use it to engage students .
Friday, April 30, 2010
MAHARA
Mahara is an open source piece of software (Aldred S,2010). Mahara is like a virtual filing cabinet.In this course we will be setting up our own personal form of e-portfolio.The set up of Mahara was for a small fee of $5.Youtube provides many educatuional pods on how to set up and use mahara. As suggested by Scott a few hours must be dedicated to this tool to ensures the best possible set up of your e- portfolio.Mahara allows you to save a wide variety of file types within your "Views" Mahara can be used as a professional tool to store lesson plans, resources and communicate with peers it can be developed for a specific purpose and made available to whom you choose. Mahara can be used as a tool for interviews and job applications. Mahara compliments the structure required to establish a professional portfolio.
Aldred, S.(2010).EDED20491,ICTs for learning design:Study guide.Rockhampton,Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
Flickr
Wow what a world we live in.Students worlds are accelerating at at an unbelievable pace.The ability for students to shine in the workplace is now at its best.What I would have used to construct my assignments would have taken me days of research ,hours of hunting through magazines using my limited creativity (through lack of ideas)skills has now been opened up to the new generation in the form of ICT.The engagement theory looks at the computer as a communication tool.This tool in the learning place is used to provide Authentic learning experiences that are meaningful. Students are encouraged to collaborate to complete their projects. As in this course in the form of forums emails, blogs etc etc . The WWWeb is a fantastic tool. Sites such as flick, picnic,mahara,wikipedia etc etc are some of the many fantastic tools avilable at the click of a mouse. Every class in every day in every lesson has some kind of link to ICT. If not presented to the children than it more than likely has been researched using some form of multimodal communication.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Interactive White Boards
Wikipedia states that 'An interactive whiteboard or IWB, is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface, where users control the computer using a pen, finger or other device'. The Youtube clip above is a fantastic example of how the IWB has chnaged the way teachers and students interact. Lessons are more student teacher centred than teacher student centred.The IWB has the potential to involve students in practical hands on design techniques. Encouraging students to expand their skills and align their learning with real life.
Some of the advantages of the IWB are:
1. They allow teachers to create easily customised learning objects from a range of existing content and to adapt it to the needs of the class in real time.
2. They allow learners to absorb information more easily.
3. They allow learners to participate in group discussions by freeing them from note-taking.
4. Allow learners to work collaborativelyaround a shared task or work area.
Some of the key pedagogic aspects of interactive whiteboards are:
1.Their size, encourages and facilitates collaborative group work.
2. Their interactivity, which facilitates active learning, not just passive reception.
3. Their recordability, so that an end product can be emailed, stored for subsequent re-use, or deconstructed to analyse a process.
White boards are yet to be rolled out through many schools. IWB should only be an extensions of the learning experiences that we are already creating for our students
Reference:
Interactive white board viewed on 29 April 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_whiteboard
Resourcing the Cirriculum, Interactive Whiteboards viewed on 29 April 2010 http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/iwb/index.htm#classroom
Powerpoint is not only for the teacher
YEAR 8 MATHS
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This power point is a work in progress.Currently in my LP I am teaching the components of a maths assignment. This power point will slowly be added to as topics are addressed in the classroom and can then be used for revision this year and an introduction in future years. The Youtube clip that I have included has been placed at the start of the presentation as a hook before the nitty gritty is addressed. This publisher has many groovy topics and I will be sure to include many more.
CARS
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Power point - opportunities are endless. Try this activity as your hook. Students first 15 mins in class usually allows for a settling technique to deal with stragglers, marking rolls and logging onto computers. The above power point engages students in learning without knowing. The students are able to develop their power point skills overtime to create their own power point slides assisting with computer skills for later tasks.
In this instance the teacher would consider LMQ 4 What resources to I have at my disposal? Computers LMQ1What do my students already know? Basic power point skills LMQ5 What will constitute the learning journey? Students are to during the course of this term provide a illustrated power point presentation.LMQ7&8 How will I check in the learner has succeeded and how will the learner be informed of their progress?
The student will be able to submit the assessment item on the due date - students will peer review hook item created.
Many teachers incorporate power point within the classroom, students are now able to meet their educational needs LMQ2 whilst having fun.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
How to Set up Your Blog and RSS Feeder
The YouTube Video above will walk you through the set up process:
The ablility for sites to provide visual medium allows for easy set up.Once the blog has been set up the most effective learning tool is to sumply begin your 'Journey.
Collectively Scott Aldred also suggests to set up a Really Simple Syndication RSS for short, this will allow you as the LM to monitor other Blogs or Websites that have an "RSS Feed".
A RSS feed allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. Saving time by not needing to visit each site individually.Put simply they are text files that, once you have published your post to a feed directory,subscribers will be able to view the content in a very short time(Boswall,W). Scott Aldred (2010)has provided a fantastic YouTube clip to provide the simplicity of setting up a RSS feed.Following these steps has allowed for my peers blog posts to be fed to my Google Reader account.
Aldred, S.(2010).EDED20491,ICTs for learning design:Study guide.Rockhampton,Qld: CQUniversity Australia
Boswell W.RSS Social Bookmark,viewed on 25 April 2010http://websearch.about.com/od/rsssocialbookmarks/f/rss.htm
Blogs
With my learning plan well underway ICT in education has proven to be a very challenging but exciting topic.Having limited knowledge of ICT, blogs wikis etc etc only left me feeling empty.
2 Months on and all I can see is students actively using mobile phones, Iphones, Ipods, Facebook Flickr etc etc. How could education continue without a little adventure into their world or should I say the real world.
A Blog - initial thought: time consuming, boring
A Blog - now - endless opportunities
So what is a Blog? The word blog is short for web log. This is an internet term for a web site set up to be regularly updated as a diary or journal for public viewing. A blog can multimodal and include written text, pictures, photographs, audio and video or a combination of all.
In the classroom and beyond:
A blog can be used as a collaborative space for open discussion,a collection of links to assist with assignments, a tutor page for student assistance beyond school hours, whatever you want it to be. A class blog can be designed by the learning manager and added to and updated by students on a regular basis. It can be any shape or size with set rules.Blogs can be used to your advantage as students are excited to actively participate within this type of medium.
A Blog can be used as the 'hook' that links the class to many weeks of classwork. This kind of active learning will assist in teacher - student, student - teacher and student - student learning allowing for not only open discussion within the blog but also within the classroom.Dales Cone suggest that students least learn from verbal symbols ( spoken words )whilst concluding that the most effective kind of learning in the modern era is from hands on experience or field experience. A blog would assist all students in the learning process allowing for research and development to occur through a diverse range of mediums outside the regular boundaries of the classroom.
Personally: My professional blog has been slow and steady but now that I am able to apply the relate, create, donate strategy of the Engagaement Theory to myself personally and professionally , I feel that I am better able to understand not only the need but the endless possibilities of ICT with the educational environment regarless of age or diversity (Kearsley, G.,Shneiderman, B.1999).
Aldred, S.(2010).EDED20491,ICTs for learning design:Study guide.Rockhampton,Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
Ezine Articles viewed on the 25/04/2010,http://ezinearticles.com/?Blogs---What-is-a-Blog-and-What-is-a-Blog-Used-For?&id=1758931
Kearsley, G.,Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for tehnology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.
2 Months on and all I can see is students actively using mobile phones, Iphones, Ipods, Facebook Flickr etc etc. How could education continue without a little adventure into their world or should I say the real world.
A Blog - initial thought: time consuming, boring
A Blog - now - endless opportunities
So what is a Blog? The word blog is short for web log. This is an internet term for a web site set up to be regularly updated as a diary or journal for public viewing. A blog can multimodal and include written text, pictures, photographs, audio and video or a combination of all.
In the classroom and beyond:
A blog can be used as a collaborative space for open discussion,a collection of links to assist with assignments, a tutor page for student assistance beyond school hours, whatever you want it to be. A class blog can be designed by the learning manager and added to and updated by students on a regular basis. It can be any shape or size with set rules.Blogs can be used to your advantage as students are excited to actively participate within this type of medium.
A Blog can be used as the 'hook' that links the class to many weeks of classwork. This kind of active learning will assist in teacher - student, student - teacher and student - student learning allowing for not only open discussion within the blog but also within the classroom.Dales Cone suggest that students least learn from verbal symbols ( spoken words )whilst concluding that the most effective kind of learning in the modern era is from hands on experience or field experience. A blog would assist all students in the learning process allowing for research and development to occur through a diverse range of mediums outside the regular boundaries of the classroom.
Personally: My professional blog has been slow and steady but now that I am able to apply the relate, create, donate strategy of the Engagaement Theory to myself personally and professionally , I feel that I am better able to understand not only the need but the endless possibilities of ICT with the educational environment regarless of age or diversity (Kearsley, G.,Shneiderman, B.1999).
Aldred, S.(2010).EDED20491,ICTs for learning design:Study guide.Rockhampton,Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
Ezine Articles viewed on the 25/04/2010,http://ezinearticles.com/?Blogs---What-is-a-Blog-and-What-is-a-Blog-Used-For?&id=1758931
Kearsley, G.,Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for tehnology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.
Friday, April 16, 2010
WIKImania
A wiki is a place where students and teachers can come together. As a member of Wikispaces, you can create as many wikis as you like.
Surprisingly the buy using wikispaces.com the wiki was easy to set up. The hardest part was determining what actual use it could be put to. Firstly I began to peer review (thanks Katrina) and was amazed at the diverse range of topics.You tube also provided a lot of incite to the role of a wiki within education.
By using a wiki LMQ 345 are able to be considered -How does my learner best learn? What resources do I have at my disposal? and what will constitute an authentic learning journey?
A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively (Aldred,S,2010)To design effective learning activities we need to have specific learning outcomes. A wiki as a resource seeks to attract the student to an ongoing student centred learning process of creation and collaboration allowing them to constantly personalise and change the wiki whilst following the course.
In order to ensure that students stay on task (LMQ 7) a Learning Manager would be able to constantly monitor participation from each student and when required comment (LMQ8)and assist them to extend and refine their knowledge (Dol 3) in order to complete their learning.
Each page could reflect a term or a months work. Each student would be able to actively contribute to the page (create) the layout would be based on the how the students felt the information would be best presented. This active participation would assist students with revision of the work covered. The wiki would be able to be used by yr 11 students throughout their learning journey to yr 12.
Kearsley and Shneiderman (1999) suggest that 'the role of technology 'in theory' is facilitate engagement' . Whilst the Engagement theory concludes that by engaging learning, students actively participate in creating, problem solving,reasoning,decision making and evaluation.
Student collaboration in using a wiki would support this theory in students are able to Relate (students assist in the set up of the account and the layout) Create (students they can assist to define some of the project, comment on peer work, and collaboratively complete the task) and Donate( students are able to use this as a source document of their learning and future students will be able to use this document as a resource)(Kearsley G, & Shneiderman, B. 1999).
Reference:
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for tehnology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.
Aldred, S. (2010). EDED20491 - ICTs for learning design: Study guide. Rockhampton, Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
Surprisingly the buy using wikispaces.com the wiki was easy to set up. The hardest part was determining what actual use it could be put to. Firstly I began to peer review (thanks Katrina) and was amazed at the diverse range of topics.You tube also provided a lot of incite to the role of a wiki within education.
By using a wiki LMQ 345 are able to be considered -How does my learner best learn? What resources do I have at my disposal? and what will constitute an authentic learning journey?
A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively (Aldred,S,2010)To design effective learning activities we need to have specific learning outcomes. A wiki as a resource seeks to attract the student to an ongoing student centred learning process of creation and collaboration allowing them to constantly personalise and change the wiki whilst following the course.
In order to ensure that students stay on task (LMQ 7) a Learning Manager would be able to constantly monitor participation from each student and when required comment (LMQ8)and assist them to extend and refine their knowledge (Dol 3) in order to complete their learning.
Each page could reflect a term or a months work. Each student would be able to actively contribute to the page (create) the layout would be based on the how the students felt the information would be best presented. This active participation would assist students with revision of the work covered. The wiki would be able to be used by yr 11 students throughout their learning journey to yr 12.
Kearsley and Shneiderman (1999) suggest that 'the role of technology 'in theory' is facilitate engagement' . Whilst the Engagement theory concludes that by engaging learning, students actively participate in creating, problem solving,reasoning,decision making and evaluation.
Student collaboration in using a wiki would support this theory in students are able to Relate (students assist in the set up of the account and the layout) Create (students they can assist to define some of the project, comment on peer work, and collaboratively complete the task) and Donate( students are able to use this as a source document of their learning and future students will be able to use this document as a resource)(Kearsley G, & Shneiderman, B. 1999).
Reference:
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for tehnology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved from CQUniversity e-course, EDED20491 ICTs for learning design, http://e-courses.cqu.edu.au.
Aldred, S. (2010). EDED20491 - ICTs for learning design: Study guide. Rockhampton, Qld: CQUniversity Australia.
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