Appropriate ICT use in Education

Within today’s lecture one point that really got me thinking is using ICT appropriately within the laws and code of conduct when teaching with these skills. This is an extremely important thing for all teachers to take into consideration and understand, as well as students studying to become a teacher. I found an article titled ‘ICT – Pedagogy Integration in Teacher Training: Application Cases Worldwide’. Which makes some great valuable tips for teachers to properly integrate and use ICT sufficiently and effectively while teaching. As said within the article, ‘ICT can provide more flexible and effective ways for professional development for teachers, improve pre and in service teacher training, and connect teachers to the global teacher community’.

Another statement that has really stuck with me from this article is, ‘teaching is becoming one of the most challenging professions in our society where knowledge is expanding rapidly and modern technologies are demanding teachers to learn how to use these technologies in their teaching’. This is a very strong point and something I have thought hard about and will continue to, teaching comes with much difficulty and consideration from many skills and information and that needs to be understood.
I have attached the article link below if any of you bloggers wish to view it and have a read –
http://www.ifets.info/journals/8_2/ets_8_2.pdf#page=99

TIP Model in planning for Professional Experience

As professional experience is fast approaching, the thinking and planning process of the experiences is well undergo for me. One model I am looking at to prepare for professional experience is the TIP model shown below. This model asks many questions to consider before starting lesson planning and prac.

What advantage does ICT give?
To me a think ICT is so fast developing and is an extremely important part of everyday life now. It is important for all students to have the knowledge for future learning and work experiences. But what advantage does it give? One question I have started thinking much about.

Organising the learning environment and enabling strategies to work as well as designing ICT integration strategies also has me thinking. I’m eager to find out where my placement is so I can see the ICT situation within the school – do they all have access to computers? is there ICT use limited? All things to think about while I continue to prepare.

Lastly, what worked well and what needs to be improved?
I guess I cant ask this question until I have had the experience myself but for now planning and preparing for all situations is all  can do.

Hope everyone is dog well getting organised for professional experience!

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TPACK

Another framework I find really helpful within this course is TPACK. I like this framework as it gets me thinking about technology not just as a skill, but how I can relate it to my teaching and how it can be incorporated within my activities within class to expand student knowledge within ICTs and learning. This also helps me understand myself how to use ICTs in a beneficial way for myself as a teacher to improve my skills and knowledge.

SAMR Model

Another model I used as a resource in my assignment and looked at was the SAMR model which stands for Substituation, Augmentation, modification, Redefinition. What I really liked about this model was transformation which was the modification and redefinition. As seen in the picture it says it tech allows for creation of new tasks. I think this is an important point as it shows that the creation of new learning, allowing students to expand their knowledge even more in different ways with more possibilities.

RAT Framework…

I used this framework in my assessment piece and found it very helpful, especially the amplification which I found to be quite true. Amplification says within this picture ‘Tech increases efficiency and productivity without fundamental change’ meaning the work can still be taught all the same but in a more experienced and better way for the students to understand. Below I have attached a photo of the framework. Im pretty excited to look more into RAT framework and use it as my teaching learning grows especially for practical experience.

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Assignment 2 done!

Just finished assignment 2! This has been my favourite assignment so far this semester, it was different from the same writing essay as many of my others and I love unit planning and coming up with and using my own ideas that I would use if I was teaching! I haven’t been posting as much lately but still be posting a few more blogs shortly.. Hope everyone has done well with assignment 2 and good luck to you all!

Assignment One Complete!

All finished! It took a lot of thinking, new skills and time to develop this assignment but I have really enjoyed myself! What I like so much about this assignment is that it is so different from anything I have done at uni in the past. It was fun to try something different other than writing essays. This really got me thinking and I’m happy for that! My artefact is based on year 9 history and ICT skills that will be used to help the students learn and complete their assessment. I hope everyone has done well with this assignment and has enjoyed it!

Below is my artefact website:

http://u1033192.wix.com/ict-and-history

Emailing within the classroom

As ICT begins to grow within our classrooms today, it has got me thinking about emailing within the classroom and what should be appropriate or not. Speaking from my own experiences within school, emails could become a bit of a problem within the classrooms. There was a lot of inappropriate emails being sent and received including cyber bullying that would be included within them. This has me thinking that as email is an essential within school, should there be limits and certain boundaries put in place? I believe all emails should be monitored within the classroom and that teachers and staff should keep a close watch on this, but do you think this is realistic and possible? I think this is possible and would be great if all schools were able to help emailing stay appropriate.

Mobile phones and Classrooms

I really like what Schon has said here about mobile phones!
It is a really difficult and complicated topic that has a lot of pros and cons. To me, I believe mobile phones should not be used within classrooms and perhaps all students could have monitored school ipads or computers. I believe the only difference between phones and these other devices are that they are able to communicate frequently with friends through texting and videoing. This can become dangerous as students could get up to filming inappropriate things within the classroom, effecting the school, students and the teachers. I believe texting in class can be very distracting and stops the students from learning.
In conclusion, I believe mobile phones are not necessary within a classroom and can become quite dangerous and a big concern within certain situations. However, I do believe monitored computers and ipads could work and be very helpful within a classroom.

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Should mobile phones be banned in classrooms?

It’s a hot topic with many views and opinions and debates amongst teachers and pre-service teachers. Similar to Danielle‘s blog and her views on banning smart phones in schools, I believe utilising smart phones and connecting students to technologies they use outside of school can be beneficial in learning. I know there are students out there who use there phones in a wrong way or get distracted during lessons with texts, tweets and Facebook posts, so there needs to be boundaries when they can access their smart phones. But banning mobiles, especially  in schools who don’t have the budget to give all students the opportunity to use ICTs regularly can be disadvantaged, especially as we see technology becoming more widely used in the modern day workplace.

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Feeling the stress!

Ahh it has been a busy few weeks! I have found it quite difficult to get my head around the information and being able to stay up to date with blogging throughout all the course work to be done.  Assignment one is really close to being due and am starting to feel the pressure! I hope everyone is moving smoothly through their assignments and work. I feel as if this has been the most challenging semester of my degree learning so far. I am sure it will all end up to be very rewarding and helpful by the end of the semester. Good luck to everyone on assignment one!