Module 1 Activities: Learning, Teaching and Thinking with ICT

 

Dear Mrs. David:

Welcome to Module 1. Your tutor for this module will be Emil Michael and Stacey Payne-Mascall.

The blog address for this module is : 

                     http://modules1-2-3-4and9.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html,

Please follow the activities on the blog.

Be sure to look at the assignments ahead of time as you complete the activities since they are linked.

This is the official group e-mail. Feel free to e-mail us if you have any concerns. Added below are our personal e-mail addresses as well.

limemichael@hotmail.com, / emilmichael@gmail.com,

stacymascall@gmail.com,

We wish you all the best and remember we are here to support you.

Your Tutors

ACTIVITY 1
Reading 1

This reading is from Whitaker, P. (1995). Managing to Learn: aspects of reflective and experiential learning in schools. London : Cassell.

Click here to do the reading.

Self-Activity 1 Do Reading 1.1, and summarise the main points of the reading into one page of notes. The following questions will help you make your summary Whitaker draws our attention to the "traditional" view of learning. Try to identify four ideas contained in the "traditional" view. Re-phrase each of Day and Baskett’s 10 guidelines in a sentence of your own words. What are some of the factors which contribute to learning from experience? Eight factors influence the process of learning – list these and next to each write a brief sentence, in your own words, which describes the factor.

Group Activity 1

1. Reflect on the questions:

• Think about how you have developed as a teacher.
• Have you only developed in terms of gaining new knowledge in the subject that you teach, or, expanding your teaching skills?
• How have your social relations with other people helped you develop as a person?
• Has this had any effect on your teaching practices or on your attitude to your job and your learners?
• What motivates you as a teacher / in your job as a teacher?

2. Write a message to your group (using the heading "Reading1"). Discuss this reading with your group by focussing on the following topic of discussion:

What single moment has been most influential in your development as a teacher? How can you make yourself more receptive to influences that can help you develop as a teacher?

3. Use your blog to capture the most powerful lessons that you learnt during this activity, especially from comments from your group. Click here to open the blank blog template, then save it in your personal folder for future use.