This comic strip from week 3 portrays a great truth when it comes to some unfortunate truths in classrooms today. My first thoughts on this teaching pattern is LAZY, but after a few pracs its easy to understand that sometimes its just easier to get students to work off sheets. But thats not what ICT is about and should not be limited to such mundane tasks and has such greater potential.

For now, Joey.

In a recent post from Kirbybunt she stated that she noticed anti-social behaviour by an Oz-tag team she was coaching. Anti-social, as in the sense that they were on their mobile phones and not talking to each other.

I too notice this behaviour at my weightlifting training, everyone sits around between sets and trolls Facebook.

In a study performed by the Networked Society Blog they found that an ironically popular theme in social media is that smartphones have made people “antisocial.”

This is an unfortunate trend but I believe ICT’s generally have a positive impact on society.

All for now, Joey

This exercise was run in week 1 and gave me new insight into personal conceptions. The idea was to fill in the blank words within a sentence that would provoke different outcomes depending on the individual and their interests.

my final version looked like this,

“my response, very late..

The questions that people face as they raise children from infants to adult are not easy to an answer. Both females and males can become concerned when health problems such as coughing arise anytime after the early stage to later life. Experts recommend that young children should have plenty of sensible and nutritious food for healthy growth. Boys and girls should not share the same bed or even be in the same room. They may be afraid of the death.”

I then found out that what I thought would have been the standered response was very different from many of the other students.

This quote from a students from S2, 2013 sums ups why the response can differ.

“It was an interesting exercise. I have since looked at the original. I also asked my partner and one of my sons in particular and interestingly enough one was all about poultry and the other was all about cats with the Panther and Feline being afraid of dogs. Neither had anything to do with children/parenting but then neither has raised small children nor interested in education at all.”

Heyyy.

Soo I am finally able to get back on the internet after our services where changing over from ADSL to NBN. The struggle has been realll! I have previously blogged about what it would be like to do life without ICT’s and I kind of found this out this week, haha it was great.

This reminded me of an article I read from matthewscheiwe blog, stating the 5 Pros and Cons of Using Technology in your Classroom: How Much Do you Agree?, written by Sophia Harris (2015).

Some of her pros included

• Independent learning for students: where the educator could assign  students to work in a group and encourage them to complete a set task by using the technology and check out on the academic queries if they arise.
• Life skills via technology: Where educators could prepare students with the vital skills like as focusing on creating presentation, maintaining proper etiquette and writing emails which could be inculcated in the classroom’s ICT equipment.

While some of the cons could include:

• Forgetting the basic ways of studying where students focus more on enhancing their knowledge in the use of the technology for even the simple problems don’t use their minds at all like they would using books.
• Disconnection with Social Media, where students’ ability to verbally communicate ideas could decline unless creating assignments in the class which are using both technology tools and oral presentations like power-points.

And I guess another con is the one i experienced this week, when the power is down, it just ain’t gonna happen!

Harris, S. (2015), 5 Pros and Cons of Using Technology in your Classroom: How Much Do you Agree?. Retrieved March 10 from: http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/2064-pros-and-cons-of-technology-in-the-classroom

Hi all,

Coming into week 2 “The Big Three” frameworks was present within the online material. These were presented in three parts as proposed by Kirschner and Wopereis (2003).

1. Preparing the next generation for the workforce;
2. Making schools more efficient and productive; and,
3. Enhancing and transforming learning and teaching.

Concerning ‘preparing the next generation for the workforce’, arguably, the whole focus of this course is on preparing me for my future teaching workplaces in which I will be instructing future generations. The Australian Curriculum Provides  ICT General Capability that help facilitate this process, with statements within it such as this, “empowered within a technologically sophisticated society now and into the future, students need the knowledge, skills and confidence to make ICT work for them at school, at home, at work and in their communities”.

The second part is providing more efficient schools, Kirschner and Wopereis (2003) write this, …new technologies are looked upon as a way to make schools more efficient and/or more productive. This document might be useful in demonstrating ICT’s usefulness. Previous EDC3100 students created the document. It contains a table that includes a list of tasks/problems associated with the course and suggestions for how ICT can help solve those tasks/problems.

Finally there is Enhancing and Transforming learning. Hopefully as I progress through this course I will see the intent behind the design of this course which is to achieve what  Kirschner and Wopereis (2003) describe, “…to stimulate learners to learn actively, independently, in a self-directed way and/or in collaboration with others” (p. 106), or that ICT and Pedagogy can transform the way you teach and the way your students’ learn.

All for now,

Joey.

During online work through week 1, an interesting topic was highlighted by the lectures. This was the concept of the “Curse of Technology”.  The “curse of knowledge” is defined by Wikipedia as,

“The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that leads better-informed parties to find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed parties”.

This “Curse of Technology” often appears within my household, usually involving either Mum or Dad 🙂 For Some reason parents within this day and age have a definite cognitive bias against ICT critical task… but maybe its just my household, anyway I found it an interesting and relate able topic.

All for now,

Joey.

Upon reading matthewscheiwe recent blog post where he presented this statement,

“A nuclear explosion  erupts in a nearby city on the day that you have to deliver a presentation to the the corporation’s chairman, teach a science class on the whiteboard, or even typing up your current assignment and are on the cusp of submitting in two minutes. The power goes out. Computers, smartphones, tablets, aircraft, cars and data bases are completely fried and useless”.

This statement really challenged me in the sense of, would I be able to function effectively if ICT capabilities became non-existent.Just about all the thing I take part in during normal day activities involve some form of technology- communication, entertainment, study, even sports. Maybe we are to dependant upon these things.

All for now,

Joey.