week 2 Learning Activity

I would hope that students would rate my learning experiences to be valuable and that they would engage in the work and give a high rating for how they were engaged in the course.

Week 2 Learnig Activity Relate, Create, Donate

A learning activity that gets the students to create information that relates to the real world and is authentic. The students then need to donate there responses back to the real world.
An example of this could be students learning how to perform swim rescues. Students are required to create their own Audio/video to demonstrate a method of swim rescue that also explains it's advantages and disadvantages of the use of it. This video is then to be uploaded to YouTube and made available for constructive comments from other students and general public.
This would be an activity that allows the student to learn by researching the information they need to complete the task, they are also required to view others work and provide appropriate constructive feedback. This type of assessment would include technology and computer skills as well and as a result would be used for senior school studies.

Week 2 Learning Activity 2

In the most part the first 2 questions were covered by most teachers, however there was little interest in the way that I learn. Depending on the subject area and teacher the middle three aspects of the 8 LMQ was used, some teachers used experts from outside the school and other technologies and resources to aid in the learning experiences. There was a poor relevance to real life and authenticity of the learning assessment in most cases the more practically based subjects had a more realistic form of assessment for the reasons that we were building and doing things that were real and useful. I think that most of my teachers have agreed with the advantage of having an understanding of where their students are at before they try to teach them. There is an advantage of knowing how your learners learn best however this can only help so much as within your own class their are multiple different learning styles. I think that it is very hard to create a learning experience that will engage all students at the same time. Having authenticity and originality within your assessment is good as it allows students to express themselves, but as a teacher it makes it harder to assess the students especially if students are choosing different types of assessment. Like any system there is always the ability for students to fall through the gaps in learning, our job as teachers it to pick up on these and help them to engage with the learning material and learn skills that they need.

Week 2 learning activity 1

Teacher centered learning would account for most of my learning environments, Teachers had deadlines and specific requirements to get done.

Science in high school we were set science practicals that required us to follow the directions.

In later years while at university there has been a move to student centered learning. This is where the lectures have been more willing to deviate from their notes to follow individual students ideas.

Science in university has allowed students to make their own experiments with given equipment to get a required result.

Learning activities for week 1

Think about your own education -- what has it resembled to date? Was it a remnant of the Industrial Age or was it based around the skills required for the 21st century?
Activity 1.1
My own education to date has aspects of bit areas transitional period of time where their where teachers using the old ways and others the new ways, however in University there has been a greater emphasis on the 21st century model.
Future work was written 10 years ago. Think about where we are now and the rapid changes that have occurred even since this article was written.
Activity 1.2
It is scary to look back and see how far the world has come in only a few short years, what are the next ten years going to hold. Will we see people living on the Moon or under the sea? Every day people ate trying to create new technologies to make our lives simpler and better.
How does the author differentiate between Mode 1 and 2 knowledge and what implications does this have for you as a teaching professional?
Activity 1.3
Mode 1 is an applied disciplined approach that is produced by individuals and is localised.
Mode 2 is trans-disciplinary and is produced in context of application it is a team effort and is global and non-localised.
How do Smith and Mienczakowski ideas work, or conflict with the three readings above?
Activity 1.4
Smith and Mienczakowski agrees with the above readings on accepting that the times are changing and education and educational institutes need to be adaptable and change to the new ways of working. Teachers are seen to be managers of student learners rather than the old ways of teaching students as they were blank slates. It is also important to use integrated ict’s in the classroom to help keep the students engaged.

Rerflections on week 1 readings

Growing up through the changeover period from the late industrial to the 21st century model was challenging as there were teachers that accepted the changes and those that continued in their old ways. The universities were more willing to teach using the 21st century model however there was still the odd lecture stuck in their old habits. This is a problem that I could see still happening more and more now days especially as technology is evolving so rapidly over the last ten years and who knows what is to come in the next ten years. If teachers are not flowing with the technology and new ideas they will get left behind and the students are the ones who suffer out of this. These readings emphasises the need for teaching pedagogies and strategies to change for the 21st century learner.