Reflection Week 2

Reflection week 2:

From todays tute lesson, I was able to get a better understanding of many things, one being the assessment 2. From my understandings the assignment is:
- Assessment 1000wrds knowledge of learning theory, frameworks
- blog
- REFLECTIVE SYNOPSIS: 5 compulsory reflections: wiki activity, one of a group of tools, good things, bad things etc. 
- TPACK and Blooms
- Link to weekly reflections

Knowing the key parts of the assessment will allow be to better prepare and understand what is required. This also allows me to see what I need to require more knowledge in to allow me to sufficently answer the task. As noted above, one of the key parts of the assessment is reflecting on theory and frameworks, one being TPACK.

Another part of todays tute involved Wendy explaining this more in depth. I also have to read the readings on this, to fill in the gaps.  I first needed to understand what this stood for. TPACK- Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge.

We looked at a model on TPACK: inspired writing walkthrough guide.

This is my understanding by looking at the model.

-          Start here! Know your content (CONTENT)
-          Master the strategies, know how to teach it (PEDAGOGY)
-          Master the technology and able to support use by both students and staff (21^st CENTURY TECHNOLOGY)
-          Engagement in the classroom using technology activities
-          Use of technology to enhance exploration of content
-          End up here! Take all of the above and see how you can do it best. Masterful 21^st century classroom focused on essential learnings, applying good learning theory supported by technology.
-          Note: content is ways of thinking

Also from todays tute we talked about productive pedogogies. Being a third year, there is a bit I already know about this area. However, I am still not overly confident with the theory behind it. I do believe, I am able to implement and create some pedogogy that fits many of the criteria in the classroom.
Wendy expressed to us that there are important points to remember about productive pedogogies.

Productive pedagogy:

1.       Needs to be complex: students need to think in complex ways. Wendy explained that ICT can do this if you use it in a smart way.

2.       Connect to student interests eg. mobile phones

3.       Needs to be supported: scaffold learning, take risks

Important to think about the pedagogy in simple terms to support what your learning with students.

After the tute with Wendy today, we were spilt into two groups. I was put into Zelina's group; the N-Z group. In this hour session we were directed into doing the wiki on mobile phones in the classroom. We encountered a huge problem when trying to add in our ideas as only one person can edit the site at a time. This ment, everytime someone saved their ideas, they would save over other ideas. I was aware of this from a previous course, as we had the same problem when meeting for groups work. Zelina directed us to do our wiki entries at home to eliminate this problem.  

Productive Pedogogy:
Found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72UFXqa8ZU
Created by: Greg Whitby, 2007



TPACK Framework:
Found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sD3K3daq8
Created by: Charlotte Galea, 2011