PARTICIPATE
- According to Kerkham and Hutchison (2005), collaborative projects that provide opportunities for teachers and students to participate in “a dynamic exchange of skills and information” and for students to learn “with and from each other” can help to reshape the teaching and learning of digital literacies in classrooms (p. 119).
- So what of this thing called CONNECTIVISM
- Siemens (2006) defines learning “as chaotic, continual, co-creation, complexity, connected specialisation, continual certainty”.
Connectivism defines learning as a continual process which occurs in different settings including communities of practice, personal networks and work place task. - With this in mind and technological change always in a state of flux and moving at a rapid pace, the 21st century classroom, educator needs to begin adopting practices which educate students to not just work collaboratively but network globally.
- To do this in the primary years we can begin with embedding ICT into routine tasks such as literacy recounts, reading and playback, dictation, typing and creating to publishing
RESOURCES
In year 2 ensuring students are using higher order thinking skills when they are working in collaborative groups or learning new concepts can at times be difficult. They are on the verge of cognitively moving to a new stage of development, socially growing and rapidly developing their abilities with ICT. Incorporating this to the greatest advantage in the classroom through 'hands on' applications which allow them to use some prior knowledge will have great rewards.
GARAGE BAND APP - try this resource to produce a soundscape and integrate into part of your science lesson as well. See how sound travels in addition to recording (using the microphone setting) any sounds you can put together to create a backdrop for a literacy role play. Do this as part of your latest book study in groups.
GARAGE BAND APP - try this resource to produce a soundscape and integrate into part of your science lesson as well. See how sound travels in addition to recording (using the microphone setting) any sounds you can put together to create a backdrop for a literacy role play. Do this as part of your latest book study in groups.
Both 'PAGES' and 'A Novel Idea' allow students to produce great pieces of writhing!
Why always have your students write when you can utilise their typing skills? Have them produce a 100 word story in pairs? Take turns at creating a sentence each and then create a title together. Who are the characters, did they think of a plot? Did it make sense or was it a nonsensical funny rambling? In any case the exercise is great practice for preparing them for Blogs and publishing later on and allows them to build upon earlier learnings. |