#EduGoalsMooc: The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning.
WEEK 3 CHALLENGE #1:
Create a mindmap of one of the digital learning theories.
This has been a challenging and definitely eyesopener challenge.
I had read before about HOTS and LOTS and the new Bloom’s Taxonomy approach but this time I enjoyed it more as I could link it with the rest of theories that we have been shown. Approaches, such as RAT, SAMR, TPACK, Digital Blooms, Connectivism, and Peeragogy. I am going fo the RAT approach as I think we teachers have no that much free time and it is a straight forward theory to apply into our daily practice.
Effective technology integration in the classroom is Paramount.
As teachers we have to stop pretending that incorporating technology in the classroom is just watching a film in the IWB or just doing the same but with a computer as a tool. There are far too many teachers doing that.
It is why I like the RAT approach, simple to teach, simple to understand, simple to apply and very succesful when applied. Incorporating technology in the classroom is also getting closer to the way children see the world. Their world is full of technology. They connect easily with us when we use technology.
For example when we learn the solar system in year 1, we get into nasa website and investigate the solar system in a way that we can see what rotation and translation is, so we are leaving the lack of dimension that a book offers and watch the planets from an entirely different point of view.
We printed NASA cards to play with them and we did a video where each of the pupils had a hairband with a planet, asteroid, comet, star etc and a role to perform in the universe (playground). We edited the video and published it in the class' blog.
For example when we learn the solar system in year 1, we get into nasa website and investigate the solar system in a way that we can see what rotation and translation is, so we are leaving the lack of dimension that a book offers and watch the planets from an entirely different point of view.
We printed NASA cards to play with them and we did a video where each of the pupils had a hairband with a planet, asteroid, comet, star etc and a role to perform in the universe (playground). We edited the video and published it in the class' blog.
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Families were presented a questionnaire for their children related to the age they started using technology and how many hours a day they do use it!
Results are surprising as they prove something we already thought and in fact reinforce it. They spend far too much time in front of a screen taking time from other hobbies, activities etc.
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