ICTs and Pedagogy

This image represents one of my main aims during proffesional experience as i beleive that students learn best when activities are engaging as well as informative!

Reeeaalllly Goooooood!!!

Reealllly Goooood!

As a pre-service Special Education teacher i have seen that teaching is about forming a relationships. Trust, Mutual respect and authentic care must be formed before learning can begin.

I have done all my pracs with children under the age of 6 so the most common form of learning I have experienced is imaginative play.

In my experience there is always a number of learners who are not engaged with the task for a range of different reasons. These include: the work not being challenging, the work being too challenging, poor teaching and the task being uninteresting.

I have witnessed many children (in the primary context) completing their school work with the use of computers. ICT plays a very important role in the classroom.

Recording of a presentation on "Understanding Digital Citizenship" by Alec Couros.  Potentially of interest for assignment 2 and digital citizenship briefing.

NSW Science teacher explaining how she's redesigned a Unit of Work using gamification principles.

Very interesting. After watching the you tube clip on game layer I can see how much I am being manipulated. I can also see that it is inevitable. I just shopped at coles and got my 10% my items reward mnnnn oh well. Coles are very clever players in the marketing world of gaming. I can also see a strong link to extrinsic rewards and Skinners behaviourism.

The question of motivation - intrinsic versus extrinsic - is often brought up around gamification and its relative badges. There is some interesting work moving discussion of motivation beyond this dualism. It may be more complex.

Another Oz class(es) blog

EQ site around ICTs in early phase of learning

That's great.My 11 year daughter has creating some stories,I am going to show her this site.

Tallyn's blog

What would have happened if we had listened to these folk.  Will use a version of this in a lecture tomorrow.

Tallyn, my wife is currently studying for a big test, one that will take 5 or 6 hours. One of her biggest concerns is having to write with pen and paper for that long. Something she rarely does and knows will cause great pain in her hand. Let alone the pain caused to the marker by having to try and read my wife's handwriting. In 50 to 500 times there will be people laughing hard at us for thinking the ability to write with a pen was essential.

You can almost picture your grandchildren laughing at you for picking up a pen and paper to write your to do list can't you?? It is an exciting time we live in though:-)) Good luck to your wife.. she will need a hand massage after that sized written test..

Passive and Active Learning

This picture is a great examplar for what represents ICT in my eyes in the Early childhood Sector. Through fostering close relationships and partnerships the children are able to all share ideas and engage together.

Australian consultancy group that partners with schools to develop/empower them for learning for the future and to drive change. In this site they share relevant news and information about change, learning, ICTs, school culture and priorities and experiences.

Learning by doing and having fun with it

Classroom design.

Parkhurst school and it's use of ICT in every grade across the curriculum is remarkable.They are really preparing their students to be 21st century learners.It is also evident that the teachers are continuously on a learning journey too.

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