Assignment 1
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Week 5
Digital Flipped preparation (required): Fill out the Google Form at tinyurl.com/DigitalCompetenceTML to reflect on your own digital competence, and to also indicate whether you are receiving the weekly email communications from The Mind Lab by Unitec. DONE Flipped preparation (required): View the TED Talk by Linda Liukas 'The poetry of programming' Consider these questions as you watch. Should we/could we ‘teach kids to code’? Why or why not? Yes! We teach children to write because this skill will be essential for them in all areas, coding will be just the same for our children's in their future. What is the relationship between Computational Thinking and coding? Coding is writing instructions for computer/technology and computational thinking is how we can solve problems using what we know about computers and technology. I am still developing my understanding of this. What is the role of storytelling in teaching coding? Story telling gives context like with all ...
Week 4
Flipped preparation (required): View the video 'Top 10 Learning Theories for Digital and Collaborative Learning'. Consider the differences between constructivism and constructionism and how collaboration relates to both. Create a diagram that captures your ideas on a single slide, then record a screencast of you explaining your diagram (2 mins max). You'll show this to another student in class, so you just need it saved on your device. Flipped preparation (required): Read the article on the portal "Research-Informed Teaching of Adults: A Worthy Alternative to Old Habits and Hearsay?" - in particular the first five and a half pages and the conclusion on page 15. Then consider whether teaching need to be Research-Informed? If so, what parts of the article should you keep in mind when working on your assignments? Teaching should be research informed. Research needs to inform practise, be understandable for practitioners and be able to be integrated into ...
Week 3
Leadership Flipped preparation (required): Read the article 'Conditions for Classroom Technology Innovations' and become an expert in your allocated condition from the 'Results and Discussion'. If you were not in the session, please read the results and discussions about all three conditions. When implementing an innovation it is important to make sure a teacher is innovative, has the technical skills and that the distance between their own philosophy, school culture and technological knowledge is not too great, in order for it to succeed. Digital Flipped preparation (required): Use the EDpuzzle link tinyurl.com/flippedvideoTML or the embedded video in Class Notes to do the Flipped Preparation in EDpuzzle. Keep in mind that you are logging in AS A STUDENT with that link (not as a teacher). If you already have an EDpuzzle account, please keep in mind that for this activity you will need to be logged in as a student and use that specific link. DONE Have you made a...