Edited by Jonathan Turner, Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014, 09:33
Week 11 Activity 19
I have decided to implement this activity in connection with an introduction to teaching skills that I am developing. The course is for content specialists (IT, business and engineering for example) to learn more about classroom pedagogy in a higher education context, and will include:
Learner training
Assessment
Lesson planning
Classroom management
Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
The course will include a discussion forum that covers trainees at national level. The forum will ask trainees to debate a number of different viewpoints for each topic, and will include trainees own reflection of their experience as learners and teachers (if they have any).
Learning is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources.
The course will use the Delicious bookmarking tool for trainees to build a bank of information sources which can be ranked and commented on by the group. These sources can be tagged according to topic area and sub-area to increase connectivity between nodes.
Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
The course will use a series of Wikis to store information on a given topic, these Wikis will be used as guidelines for classroom practice and will not be used for example as a pre-cursor to assessment.
Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known.
Trainees produce a blog in which they are to record and reflect on the learning process, i.e. how they have learnt and will contain links to resources as well as recording how these were found and evaluated.
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
course will include trainees setting up and maintain a group that reflects their professional interest and context within the course community This group will use social media such as Facebook or Linked-in.
Trainees will join existing professional interest social media groups that reflect their own professional interests. Their engagement with these groups will be reflected in their own course assessment.
Ability to see connections between fields, ideas and concepts is a core skill.
Trainees will form cross-disciplinary teams that will be tasked to produce cross-disciplinary thematic projects for their students to produce. So for example the theme is “the environment’ and the teams will produce work based on the environment for engineering, business and IT. It should be noted that teams will have to work on specialties that do not reflect their own content areas.
Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
Trainees will subscribe the RSS feeds pertinent to their content areas and pedagogy related. They will summarize the findings from these RSSS feeds on a weekly basis in their blog post
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.
Trainees will research historical documentation relate to pedagogy (for example work connected to behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism). The findings will be presented in relation to current learning artifacts (such as micro-blogging sites like Twitter) and an evaluation will be offered as a group presentation with reflections on individuals blogs
Week 11 Activity 19
Week 11 Activity 19
I have decided to implement this activity in connection with an introduction to teaching skills that I am developing. The course is for content specialists (IT, business and engineering for example) to learn more about classroom pedagogy in a higher education context, and will include: