In no education system around the world where I have worked has the introduction of new technologies made teachers less vital or central to the teaching and learning process. On the contrary: As dust settles after new equipment arrives in schools (and eventually begins to work, more or less), and the initial hype around the potential for quick 'transformational change' subsides, the role of the teacher is almost always more central, indeed fundamental, than it was before the introduction of technology.
Group items tagged
1More
Quia Web - A look inside... - 1 views
-
used to create and assigns quizzes, tasks, assessments etc to students or classes online
3More
Will technology replace teachers? No, but ... | Edutech - 0 views
-
-
New technologies can, and no doubt eventually will, replace many of the routine administrative tasks typically handled by teachers, like taking attendance, entering marks into a grading book, etc
-
Machines (perhaps even "teaching machines") may also handle some of the routine, low-end cognitive tasks (e.g. posing multiple-choice questions and grading tests) that teachers currently perform
2More
Snapshot of ICT use in the classroom (2011) - 0 views
-
So this information is from 2011 but it gives us an idea of how much of the 'iceberg' teachers are using in the classroom. We are all likely comfortable incorporating the first few tasks/activities in our classrooms but we need to ramp up ICT use in deeper tasks to encourage HOT skills. Sourced from http://elearningindustry.com/time-level-use-ict-in-your-classroom
7More
Mind Amplifier: Howard Rheingold And The Value Of Convivial Tools - Forbes - 0 views
-
his is a helpful thought in a society that has placed more attention on the fact of digital technologies (the new iPhone!) than on what we do with them
-
but all technologies, to some degree or another, are enmeshed in what Langdon Winner calls ‘regimes,
-
Design of tools has—as Illich pointed out—been accomplished in the absence of any consideration of their effects on social, cognitive, and political regimes. Designers can be better educated. And so can the users of their tools
- ...3 more annotations...
-
The old model of learning—the sage on the stage—is being challenged by cooperative forms of co-learning in which teachers act as facilitators and students use the tools available, from search engines to smartphones, to learn collaboratively, with teachers acting as facilitators
-
The whole notion of meta-cognition, of treating attention as a trainable aspect of everyday thought, is a potential new discipline
-
He is developing tools for “knowledge design” that both help individuals capture and manipulate what they know, but that also help connect individual intelligence to different models and sources of knowledge.
-
Howard Rheingold has written about the use of digital technologies for learning and other tasks. In particular, the possibility that digital technologies can be mind amplifiers. Tools that enhance our ability to think and learn. Something EDC3100 will touch on in Week 3
1More
Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org - 3 views
-
This is the link David has placed in one of week two's task pages. Well worth bookmarking yourself so you can continue your lifelong learning journey long after you leave uni.
What is an effective teacher - 5 views
33More
What is TPACK? | Teaching Teachers for the Future - 10 views
-
Expert teachers now are those who can bring together knowledge of subject matter, what is good for learning, and technology (ICT)
-
Perhaps the core of what this course is trying to achieve - develop and bring together knowledge of subject material, good learning and technology
-
I take it you mean the 'core of what this course is trying to achieve' :) and I agree. -
We are lucky to be learning how to integrate technology into our pedagogy NOW. If I had done a teaching degree when I first left school I would probably be a very different teacher. -
-
-
We have understood for a long time that expert teachers are those who can bring together their deep knowledge of subject matter with profound understanding of what is good for learning. The combination has been described as Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and is more than the simple addition of two parts. The fusion is what enabled expert 20th century teachers to transform subject content and represent it in ways that made it accessible to individual learners in their specific contexts.
-
I love the first sentence. I would class an expert teacher as one who covers all PCK in a way that engages students' full attention.
-
I love this first sentence too, it is so meaningful and fully grasps the importance of being a great teacher versus an ok teacher. -
Agreed, in addition I find the last part of the paragraph insightful. The expert teacher transforms subject content and makes it accessible to individual learners. The idea that the teacher uses their content knowledge and their pedagogic knowledge to integrate technology in such a manner that it transforms content so as to meet individual needs. I find this conceptual picture of an expert teacher very inspirational. -
Faeza, your comment about transforming content to meet individual needs struck a cord with me. Thanks.
-
-
We have understood for a long time that expert teachers are those who can bring together their deep knowledge of subject matter with profound understanding of what is good for learning. The combination has been described as Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and is more than the simple addition of two parts. The fusion is what enabled expert 20th century teachers to transform subject content and represent it in ways that made it accessible to individual learners in their specific contexts.
- ...6 more annotations...
-
In each case, the expert teacher needs to make creative links between what is being learned (content), how it is taught (pedagogy), and the appropriate tools (technology).
-
Absolutely, this is the crux of what we should be doing as educators - not just trying to make it fun, but fulfil the curricula requirements in such a way that it is engaging and meets standards.
-
I also think that this underpins exactly what we need to do as teacher, to be able to create engaging and interactive lessons that not only meet the criteria of the curricular but are interesting and useful for the students using methods that excite and engage.
-
The last part of this statement,to me, means constructing knowledge by building on learning that has already taken place- using engaging and age appropriate tools. -
I find the idea of finding an appropriate tool for the task to be crucial. An appropriate tool will engage and enhance the learning experience, an inappropriate tool could lead to negative experiences and negative attitudes towards technology.
-
Yes, this is exactly what educators today need to do! However, I think it's going to be a challenging one. It needs experiences and effort to make this happens in our teaching. -
I think the Possum Magic Video demonstrates a creative use of technology that makes learning engaging and fun for students and teachers!
-
-
In each case, the expert teacher needs to make creative links between what is being learned (content), how it is taught (pedagogy), and the appropriate tools (technology)
-
ICT is also transforming pedagogy by providing new ways to engage learners.
-
I think this shows the importance of ICT in teacher and how all teachers should be looking and engaging in ways to integrate ICT into their teaching.
-
To me, this suggests that while ICT continues to transform, the current teachers and up-coming teachers such as ourselves have to modify our teaching pedagogy to incorporate these ICT's to engage the students and get them excited to learn through integrating the 'new' technology devices -
ICT I feel it the way of the future, technology is always evolving and change and we must do the same. If this means changing the way in which we educate the students then that is what we must do. I am learning so many new things with this course and feel that Im beginging to learn new ways in which I can enrich the students learning. -
This is such a powerful statement and really cements the importance of integrating ICT's into our teaching and learning. It is the way forward for engaging students and enhancing their learning journeys -
Engaging learners in new ways, and ways that suit their individual needs, is the heart of what using ITCs to transform teaching and learning is all about.
-
-
-
deep knowledge of how ICT can be used to access and process subject matter (TCK) and understanding how ICT can support and enhance learning (TPK) in combination with PCK
-
hands-on learning
-
new ways to access and process knowledge
-
- ...1 more comment...
-
Expert teachers/deep knowledge of subject/understanding of what is good learning all sums up what this course and the past courses I have been involved with for the past three years have shown me however there is still alot to learn. -
-
Teacher and student resources - 5 views
ICTs and Mathematics - 2 views
16More
Connectivism: A learning theory for the Digital Age - 3 views
-
We can no longer personally experience and acquire learning that we need to act. We derive our competence from forming connections.
-
“Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge
-
the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.
- ...12 more annotations...
-
Connectivism is driven by the understanding that decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations. New information is continually being acquired. The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
-
Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
-
Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
-
Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
-
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning
-
Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
-
Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
-
Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
-
Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
-
When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill.
-
Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity. How people work and function is altered when new tools are utilized
-
Connectivism provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed for learners to flourish in a digital era.
-
Journal article about Connectivism (may be useful for Assignment 3 part B)
1More
shared by emmad1810 on 02 Aug 16
- No Cached
Learning to Open Up History for Students: Preservice Teachers' Emerging Pedagogical Con... - 1 views
jte.sagepub.com/...260.abstract
history students edc3100 resources Education knowledge content learning
shared by emmad1810 on 02 Aug 16
- No Cached
-
Given students' preconceptions of history as fixed information, cultivating students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking is foundational to advancing their disciplinary understanding. This study examines the ways in which preservice history teachers construct tasks that demand students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking and attend to such thinking in their field placements while being taught to do so in their methods courses. Analysis of methods course assignments, student teaching observations, and assessments of candidates' disciplinary knowledge led to the construction of three cases of novice teachers' efforts to teach these ways of thinking to their students. The one novice who attended to her students' interpretive and evidentiary thinking translated her disciplinary knowledge into lessons that involved analysis of text in developing interpretations and gave general prompts to provide evidence in support of students' conclusions. This study highlights the role of preservice teachers' disciplinary understanding and pedagogical content knowledge in developing students' interpretive and evidentiary thinking in history classrooms.
1More
Learning | Dig-It! Games - 2 views
-
SLIC - holistic lesson to increase motivation and engagement, helping to teach multiple levels of learners and different learning styles, fostering collaboration and helping students focus on specific tasks
8More
shared by jac19701212 on 25 Apr 16
- No Cached
Simon Haughton's website: ICT Lesson Plans and Ideas - 4 views
www.simonhaughton.co.uk/ict-lessons
EDC3100 ICT lesson plans ICT in the classroom pic collage resources
shared by jac19701212 on 25 Apr 16
- No Cached
-
how much freedom I was going to give the children
-
limited selection of task descriptions
-
Do not allow the project work replace discrete skills lessons
- ...5 more annotations...
-
provide the children with effective adult support
-
who decides when a project is completed to a good standard
-
meaningful contexts
-
children are aware of what skills they are developing
-
Give children examples of what good quality pieces of work
5More
Assignment 2 - 1 views
-
Justificatory essay A 500 word essay justifying your selection of ICTs in your unit plan. Conditions 500 words for the justification essay. You should not go any smaller than a 11 point font for the essay.
-
-
Conditions No more than 8 pages for your unit, task sheet, and rubric combined. It is acceptable to use a font as small as 8 point in your unit plan. You may also choose to use a "smaller" font (e.g. Arial Narrow).
1More
ICT Mindtools - 1 views
-
By ICT Mindtools I refer to ICT tools that necessarily engage users in higher order thinking. Students cannot use Mindtools without thinking deeply about the task at hand. Mindtools require students to be creative and to think and make connections for themselves.
1More
shared by Allana Climpson on 12 Mar 14
- No Cached
ICT for (I)nspiring (C)reative (T)hinking - 3 views
www.ascilite.org.au/...northcott.pdf
EDC3100 resources education technology creativity inspiring drama sharing
shared by Allana Climpson on 12 Mar 14
- No Cached
-
This weeks task on EDC3100 involving The Decoding Learning report gave me some inspiration about my reasons for using ICT... Creativity in my drama class is something that ICTs will definitely help with I think. This link shows the relationship between ICT and inspiring creative thinking. Uni computers wont allow me to use my diigo toolbar on this piece so I cannot make highlights or annotations unfortunately.
21More
Application of the SAMR model | isupport - 4 views
-
These processes are ingrained and simple. The devices we use are all around us, they are ubiquitous and the outcomes obtainable.
-
In other words, the technology has become mythic (in the sense suggested by Postman's 5 things to know about technological change)
-
Does this imply that there will be a time where the subject ICT and pedagogy won't be necessary? -
That Leigh, is a very good question. One we'll pick up on in coming weeks (if not before)
-
-
In short, I think there will be a time when a course like ICT and Pedagogy won't be needed.
-
-
Dr Puentedura displayed this brilliant slide introducing the SAMR Ladder, and offered the following advice.
-
Click on the image below and read the "SAMR ladder". These will be useful questions to ask yourself over the coming weeks.
-
-
What is it that you have always wanted to accomplish in terms of educational goals that you couldn’t accomplish before?
-
- ...3 more annotations...
-
Technology is used a lot but only in low level uses (ie Facebook, and Google search). If asked to perform a “complex” task such as creating a presentation or editing a photograph most teachers would come unstuck.
-
Does this apply to you? Has your studies given you an opportunity to move beyond?
-
I have used new software and packages during my uni course that I wouldn't have otherwise experienced. It is great to be pushed into that uncomfortable stage while learning a new program but the achievement feeling when you have worked it out is great and very rewarding. There is so much out there that could be used in the classroom but you need to seek it out! -
Until I started EDC3100 I wouldn't have considered myself a 'low level user'. I am however making progress. It is challenging at times since there are so many resources that can be applied. Without this course I would have been in the dark about the possibilities.
-
-
We know when we have achieved successful technology integration: it is when we use technology without even thinking about it.
-
I love this. Successful technology integration is when it is just part of what we do. Like postman's ecological thinking.
-
-
as technology evolves we must evolve too
-
A new reading for the week 3 learning path. Introduces the SAMR model and has some broader comments.
- ...1 more comment...
-
A new reading for the week 3 learning path. Introduces the SAMR model and has some broader comments.
-
A new reading for the week 3 learning path. Introduces the SAMR model and has some broader comments.
-
A new reading for the week 3 learning path. Introduces the SAMR model and has some broader comments.
58More
Does the Khan Academy know how to teach? - The Washington Post - 5 views
-
Gates has called Khan, "the best teacher I've ever seen.
-
An example of some of the large claims being made about Khan Academy that seem to suggest limited understanding of what makes a good teacher?
-
This is an interesting one - how can a teacher be hailed as such, when there is no real interaction (questioning from the student's point of view)? The Khan Academy does have its advantages as a very useful prop to specific lessons and concepts, yet the questions posed by any learner should be equally important if effective learning is to take place.
-
I agree Doreen, furthermore, the Khan Academy cannot be used as a stand alone to teaching, yet as a tool to extend understanding or to reteach concepts
-
It is a useful tool I agree. Students need to have an understand of a variety of ways/strategies/methods to draw upon in order to gain a full understand of the concepts. -
Interesting to see Bill Gates making a reference to teaching skills. Last I checked he wasn't an expert in education?! -
I don't get why they are making reference to Bill Gates I don't believe he has an understanding of teaching. Although these online library can help with understanding but is it really the way we want education to go online teaching?? -
I belive that the reference to Gates arises from the fact that he's spending a lot of his money attempting to improve schools and universities. That money means that his views on what is good teaching carry significant weight. More so than his qualifications and experience might otherwise warrant.
-
-
What is more, his videos reveal an ignorance of how we know students learn mathematics.
-
The Khan Academy videos suffer from the poor PCK of the people developing the videos. The core of the argument here.
-
The videos were started to help students who were already learning through the school system and needed more help without having to pay for it. A lot of people are complaining about the videos as alternatives to explicit teaching in the classroom, but aren't they great for what they were originally designed for. -
I don't think the Khan videos are doing any damage...They shouldn't be used as a stand alone, but instead as a supplement for learning, perhaps.
-
I think the videos are great as a supplementary activity, it provides a different way to explain something. Good on him for attempting it. -
I like David's comment: videos aren't actually evidence of the Khan academy, just "the poor PCK of the people developing the videos.".
-
-
Pedagogical content knowledge is an important foundation for planning lessons and for decision making during a lesson.
- ...19 more annotations...
-
All teachers make mistakes, after all, and Khan should not, the reasoning goes, be called out for making the same mistakes we all make.
-
There certainly are broken models in education, but there is absolutely no evidence that competent knowledge of student learning and thinking is one that teachers can afford to jettison.
-
researchers are finding evidence that particular kinds of PCK are associated with greater gains in student learning in elementary mathematics.
-
revolutionize
-
The equal sign (=) i
-
Many mathematics educators stress another kind of knowledge necessary to design and deliver quality instruction: pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). PCK refers to knowledge of content as it relates to teaching.
-
-
content knowledge alone is inadequate
-
How true, but how often do we see this and the reverse situation where teachers are teaching in areas where their content knowledge is lacking. -
-
I agree content knowledge is crucial but there are so many more aspects needed to make it great. -
Content knowledge is important, but it doesn't matter how much knowledge a teacher has if s/he cannot teach that content in a way that the students will actually understand it and be able to apply it in future -
I agree that content knowledge is important but it is just as important to know your students and how best they learn
-
-
The standard American curricular treatment, in which students are instructed to append zeroes to the shorter decimal to equalize the number of digits helps students to perform this task correctly, but fosters its own misconceptions.
-
he exercises offer no intellectual rigor and do not address our central concern.
-
PCK knows from both educational research and professional experience
-
I think frankly, the best way to do it is you put stuff out there and you see how people react to it; and we have exercises on our site too, so we see whether they’re able to see how they react to it anecdotally.
-
-
-
the examples Khan chooses appear selected at random and thus are, perhaps unsurprisingly, often quite poor.
-
-
If Khan’s videos occasionally popped up in a Google search, we would be content to have him carry on. There is lots of worse information available on the web. But Khan is hailed as “unbelievable” ( Bill Gates) and his work as “sparking a revolution in education
-
It is up to the teacher to assess whether or not the videos are suitable for his/her students. If the teacher chooses to use the video, then s/her can refer to the teacher information and see which questions the students answered correctly / incorrectly and identify any misconceptions. These misconceptions can then be addressed by the teacher in the classroom
-
-
Whether small steps or large, we urge Sal Khan and his funders to put their time, effort and dollars to the best possible ends, particularly when it comes to making decisions grounded in accurate, carefully considered pedagogical content knowledge
-
discuss the meaning of the equal sign frequently and explicitly, and (2) model correct use of the equal sign.
-
-
To quote a fellow student, Lucas Naughton states, 'ICT must be used to enhance and amplify the learning rather then becoming the point of the learning'. I get that there are holes in the Khan videos however if we are using them to enhance learning then why cant the teacher design an entire lesson around one video. They can discuss the missing misconceptions. They can provide other methods/concepts and they can create practice activities all around a Khan video. Remember-enhance and amplify the learning using these ICT's. Cheers Angela Woodward -
-
-
Khan will put the video out there and see how people react to it.
-
There's no actual looking for student ability/interest - it seems as if he's more interested in teaching what he want to talk about.
-
-
Newsweek
-
How does Newsweek become a credible source? Surely people know better than to blindly accept a newpaper's arbitary titles?
-
-
- ...6 more comments...
-
-
-
-
-
-
Wikipedia mentions Khan's education: "Khan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science in 1998. Khan also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School" I can't see a Bachelor of Education in there. I would have thought that this would be essential, and the first stepping-stone, to acquire an understanding of PCK and how students learn. Danielson and Goldenburg state that "content knowledge alone is inadequate for quality instruction" and that many videos are prone to creating further confusion for students. They also go on to say that Khan's explanations are frequently off target in addressing likely student questions that experienced teachers would anticipate and elicit. Maybe a four-year stint at USQ might be in order? . -
-