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.

Welcome to my thoughts, my name is Joey Collins and this is my introduction.

How’s it going everyone, I’m 21 years old and I’m two years into a Primary PE degree. To be honest I love the hands on side to teaching (hence PE) so I enjoy the Pracs a lot more then the study but you got to do what you got to do right .

I guess that in truth I do use a lot of ICT devices throughout my usual daily happening but I would say that I am necessarily proficient when it come to the “technical” side of thing. Anyway , happy to find out what this subject has to offer and looking forward to successfully completing this subject.