This weeks reading talks specifically about how to use videos in teaching and learning. It makes the point that making videos can be a very motivating task for students and one of the best ways to encourage group work. This makes sense when we look at the class activity that we did in which we shot videos outside of the education building.
The chapter also gives some tips about how to do video editing. This has already been covered in class. It also shows ways of using concept maps while designing video projects.
Generally it is a helpful chapter when it comes to making a big video project but is not that applicable in our situation (where we will make a 2 minutes video)
The next chapter is about using technology for students with special needs. I personally know of a professor who uses assistive technology like audio books and computer magnification softwares and this helps her a lot. Now there are many disability softwares both in windows and MAC, which be know about and the chapter discusses. It also makes a point that use of a crutch can slow learners down. While I agree to this, I think that these technologies are very helpful to learners. Further funding should be dispersed to make them better.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
week 11
The chapter talks about the use of digital portfolios for students. It focuses on what decisions to make in order to use the portfolio for assessing the students. Also it talks about how to share the contents of the portfolio what kind of technologies to use within the portfolio.
It seems as if it is quite an outdated article. Technology has improved quite a bit since this article was written. I have some useful suggestions. I think a good way to share the material of the portfolio with students and parents would be to use secure databases. A good way to publish the contents would be to use websites. (pretty much what webct is doing).
I do agree to the fact that using a portfolio is a very useful way to represent the students' performance. I personally have a digital portfolio
It seems as if it is quite an outdated article. Technology has improved quite a bit since this article was written. I have some useful suggestions. I think a good way to share the material of the portfolio with students and parents would be to use secure databases. A good way to publish the contents would be to use websites. (pretty much what webct is doing).
I do agree to the fact that using a portfolio is a very useful way to represent the students' performance. I personally have a digital portfolio
Monday, March 24, 2008
week 10
This weeks reading starts with a very helpful checklist of what to include in a movie. THis might be helpful in the final movie project. The chapter later goes on to give suggestions of how to make encourage women to go more towards technical development. Tips include including graphics. There are ten other tips, but I will comment on this one as it is very interesting. Girls are very good with colors. If you ask a guy to describe a rusty red color, he might say "it's red", however a girl will give you are very detailed response and use vocabulary which is quite different( don't know exactly what, since I am a boy!). So girls should be encouraged with good GUIs towards technical stuff.
week 9
Chapter 9 deals with powerpoint presentations. It gives various uses of powerpoint i.e general use, use in teaching languae, use in teaching math etc. I think that I have personally made good use of powerpoint in university. In my exceptional students class, I studied the slides the teacher posted and got a good grade. In my classroom practices class, I presented using powerpoint.
In class we did non linear presentations. I did not know about this before. I think I learnt a lot. By using non linear technology I can make my presentations more powerful by achieving a greater control on the slide arrangement.
In class we did non linear presentations. I did not know about this before. I think I learnt a lot. By using non linear technology I can make my presentations more powerful by achieving a greater control on the slide arrangement.
week 8
This weeks reading deals with Micro worlds or simulations. This is related to visualizing with techology as covered in the book. Simulations and visualizations are a very powerful tool in teaching sciences and mathematics. Geometrical shapes can be simulated and played with using Simulation softwares. The chapter focuses on a competition that a teacher held among her students in class. Because of simulation softwares less resources needed to be used.
In class we have developed puzzles and have played with scratch. This is related to the point the chapter makes.
In class we have developed puzzles and have played with scratch. This is related to the point the chapter makes.
Week 7
Comments on the Alan Kay Article
This was a fresh breeze. I really enjoyed this article. If you look at my teaching philosophy on my website, you will see that it is a direct consequence of this type of thinking. I am happy that someone agrees with me!
According to me some of the highlights of this article were when Mr Kay mentions how the emphasis of technology has been to make it more TV like, so taht people are engrossed in entertainment and they lose touch with the beneficial side of technology. This point is very well made, and is very obvious with the advent of youtube and myspace.
As teachers we do have a responsibility -- one of directing our students towards critical thinking, so that they can chose for themselves what is good and leave what is bad. It is also very important to get enough people involved in idea based learning. This should create a sub culture of like minded people, which can affect a change. An example is a reading group focused on the great books of western civiliztion for example, and then seeking meaningful ways to use technology as a means of learning.
Overall I think this is a very well written article. It is idealistic and should be a little bit more focused on the pragmatism.
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I did the website reviews with travis hall. Please read his blog for this part.
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The course pack reading for week 7 dealt with spreadsheets. I think that the use of spread sheets is of great importance in the practical world. The reading gives practical tips about how to teach this technology. (i.e. by simulating a real world situation).I think that this is in concordance with what we are being taught in this course i.e. linking theory with reality.
This was a fresh breeze. I really enjoyed this article. If you look at my teaching philosophy on my website, you will see that it is a direct consequence of this type of thinking. I am happy that someone agrees with me!
According to me some of the highlights of this article were when Mr Kay mentions how the emphasis of technology has been to make it more TV like, so taht people are engrossed in entertainment and they lose touch with the beneficial side of technology. This point is very well made, and is very obvious with the advent of youtube and myspace.
As teachers we do have a responsibility -- one of directing our students towards critical thinking, so that they can chose for themselves what is good and leave what is bad. It is also very important to get enough people involved in idea based learning. This should create a sub culture of like minded people, which can affect a change. An example is a reading group focused on the great books of western civiliztion for example, and then seeking meaningful ways to use technology as a means of learning.
Overall I think this is a very well written article. It is idealistic and should be a little bit more focused on the pragmatism.
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I did the website reviews with travis hall. Please read his blog for this part.
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The course pack reading for week 7 dealt with spreadsheets. I think that the use of spread sheets is of great importance in the practical world. The reading gives practical tips about how to teach this technology. (i.e. by simulating a real world situation).I think that this is in concordance with what we are being taught in this course i.e. linking theory with reality.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
week 6
The idea of the chapter in the course pack is to use power tools to facilitate learning. There has been sufficient development now so that people who are not speacialists in computers can use computers to create websites, graphics, puzzles etc to enhance their students' learning.
The puzzles that were developed in the class, were not time consuming, yet they can be very interesting for the students. Similarly, the teacher can have the studetns participate in activities and thus make them part of the process of creating information technology based learning.
One criticism of this approach could be that the teacher and the students might get caught up in the 'how' of figuring out the technology, but as time passes and technology progresses, this criticim should dwindle. Computer Aided Techology design is the answer to this problem.
The puzzles that were developed in the class, were not time consuming, yet they can be very interesting for the students. Similarly, the teacher can have the studetns participate in activities and thus make them part of the process of creating information technology based learning.
One criticism of this approach could be that the teacher and the students might get caught up in the 'how' of figuring out the technology, but as time passes and technology progresses, this criticim should dwindle. Computer Aided Techology design is the answer to this problem.
Week 5
The chapter was about creating webquests. I think that use of webquests can be a very beneficial technique to introduce students to a subject material. Our webquest will be on Noam chomsky, and should be a good start for students.
However, we should not only confine ourselves and our students to webquest. There should be something to motivate the studnets to go ahead and read more about the subject matter and they should not confine themselves to the evaluation. I agree to the book saying that technology is an integral part of classrooms today.
The lessons from the class and the book can be used to introduce students to a new subject matter in an intersting way.
However, we should not only confine ourselves and our students to webquest. There should be something to motivate the studnets to go ahead and read more about the subject matter and they should not confine themselves to the evaluation. I agree to the book saying that technology is an integral part of classrooms today.
The lessons from the class and the book can be used to introduce students to a new subject matter in an intersting way.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Answers to Questions in the book
Chapter 5 in textbook (pp. 82-98), answer ques. # 2, 4, 13
#2 : This is a very profound question. I think that carpenters need their tools to perfect their knowledge of carpentry. They can learn about this art, by mere observation. They do not need tools to learn the art. This answer is a specification of what Kant observed about Euclidean geometry. Euclidean geometry is intuitive because of our observations. Non-Euclidean geometry is not.
#3 : I think that the term mindless thinking is a contradiction in terms. Thinking has to be with the mind. We can say "square circle", but if we dissect the concept, it reduces to absurdity.
#13: Some of the tools that can be used in learning are didactic poems for example. These poems can be memorized by the student and the teacher fills them in regarding the meaning of these poems. This will lead them to keep the knowledge with them all their lives.
Topic sentences while reading can also be another tool, which can be used to create an outline of a book.
chapter 6 (pp. 100-120), answer ques. #1, 2.
#1 : They share the responsibility of mutual participation. They should encourage the process by being an active part of the learning community and by taking initiative in the shared learning process. Technology can serve the goals of learning community by giving everyone the opportunity to voice their opinion with a lot of flexibility of time and location. It can get in the way by giving students more opportunities to plagiarize for example, a route if followed will lead to a lack of creativity.
#2 : They can have a monitoring blog, on which students are supposed to post their particular responses. The teacher can monitor this blog and thus give differentiated instruction to the students, thereby enhancing their learning experience.
chapter 6 (pp. 120-137), answer ques. #6, 7
#6 They might have a point saying so. If children are given too much exposure to technology, they could make big digressions from the learning process by getting caught up in the periphery entertainment that comes as a package with beneficial technology.
If they use technology e.g. blogs and wikis in a proper way, it can also lead them to leaning some new things, by a directed approach to group oriented activities. It is thus a two sided sword and is not completely without benefit.
#7 You can have students post their questions to the teacher, and the teacher can respond to everyone, thus helping a group. Group members can also help each other by responding to one another on discussion forums. You can design group activities in which students modify shared documents (google documents is a good example)
chapter 7 (pp. 140-167), answer ques. #3, 5, 7, 9
#3: I would say that online chats distract the children in their classes from real instruction. By real instruction, I mean the transmission of knowledge that comes in person from the teacher. Online chats can distract the students from concentrating on the teacher.
#5: Yes they can, but the assumption holds that parents are willing to use these technologies. Students now a days are generally better than their parents at using communication devices.
Parents can be for example added to a parents group where they can login to make sure that they are in sync with other parents in similar situations.
#7: There are some benefits. In asynchronous systems, students have more time to think and respond. This is particularly important when it comes to analysis situations, in which students have to stop and think. In live situations, students are in pressure to respond right away.
#9: In case of Podcasts, the user can download the file and review it when necessary. He can also listen to the file, whenever he wants. This flexibility gives podcasts more preference over radio transmission. As a result, radio broadcast is not used as much in classrooms.
chapter 4 (pp. 62-80), answer ques. #2, 4, 6
#2 : Brainstorming activities , for example can use mind maps. Another way in which I have used mindmaps, is to enhance vocabulary in case of ESL students. I believe that in order to acquire the native flair of a language, students should be able to link words to concepts. Using mind maps, they can do so in case of new words that they learn.
#4 : I would think that this is particularly a motivating approach. Students can be motivated by telling them that whoever gets to a particular standard in writing for example, his work will be published on the course website for others to look at. This might motivate them to perform good. Teachers can, like in the case of EDPT 200, maintain a community link, which would give the students a sense of belonging to the teacher.
#6: Teachers should be acting as the main collaborators. They for example can be the admin, who monitors a certain group. If they do so, they can post their comments on students' group activities. They can also help students resolve potential conflicts. This way, student communication would carry out more smoothly, and the teacher would also be involved in the process.
CHAPTER 2
#10. I will have to make an assuption that they do not know how to do a goal directed search(which needs to be taught to them). They have the basic abilities to browse the net and to get information from credible and non credible sources.
# 11
1. That the searches have to be goal directed to be efficietn.
2. That there are all kind of websites on the net and they have to figure out a way to distinguish the truth from falsehood.
3. That there are different types of search engines.
#14
`The internet consists of webpages that have been made and posted on a world wide web by many different users. It consists of a backbone and its branches on which users exist. It is possible to search this web. There are also private spaces which have restricted access.
CHAPTER 3
#2 : Generally anything set of observations with prepositions requires an inference to be made based on the rules of deductive logic (or induction in case of science). This can include maths, philosophy, or science in general.
#4 They can do so by testing what they have postulated on unseen conditions. For example, they can test newton's second law of motion on another planet, by seting the g to be something other than 9.8 m/s^2
# 8: This is very hard to do, as immitating the real world can have variables taht the person who is bulding the simulation possibly does not take into account. If I were building a simulation, I would go for something like a mathematical model, as the variables are known and can be controlled. A good simulation would be that of numbers behaving differently in different bases. The variables would be the numbers and their relationship to the bases.
# 10: Because of cursiosity. A person would like to know what it is to be in the shoes of another person and to feel it. I would , for example like to know what it is to be a woman (for example) , another person might like to feel as being the president of the country and to see how it changes the way he views the world.
CHAPTER 8
#1 and #3 are very related so I will attempt to answer them together.
An engaging and effective design would be a design that has to deal with emerging properties. A software, for example is a prosaic example of such a design. When microsoft or apple comes up with an operating system, they always receive feedback from their users of emerging bugs, which they never encoutered from their quality assurance department.
A convergant solution, thus would violate the spirit of an engaging design.
Students can be motivated to continue exploring, by having them design a product which would have some sort of a user interaction. They can thus receive feedback from their users and modify their designs and make them better. An example would be weighwatchers calculator and point tracker ,which can be designed in EXCEL. The users might request the students to add graphs etc, which will keep the students busy.
CHAPTER 9
#1 There have been new theories in the last century which are very hard to visualise. Take einstein's relativity theory as an example. It is hard to imagine how time and space can be visualized. However using modelling programs, such a 4rth dimension can be possibly visualized. Another example would be that of non-Euclidean geometory which is not intuitive but it might be visualized or made more intelligable using technology.
#2 Google earth will definitely give us more of a global village kind of outlook. My father for example who is retired and lives in Pakistan, once opened google earth in which I showed him the location of my appartment in montreal. Such a technology does give the feeling that the world is a small place : )
#4 Mathematics requires students to do abstract thinking. When you are thinking in terms of variables, you are abstracting particular situations to a general situation. Mathematical thinking also involves deducting reasoning from established premises, which is the analytic part of maths.
#5 I don't think so. Imagine television showed you how to ride a bike. You will never will able to do so until you actually went out and rode a bike. A TV can give a student the initial urge to explore. The exploration has to be done by the student in the real world in order to see how things work.
#7 A non technological constructionist activity that uses a great deal of abstraction could be coming up with a didactic poem on a subject. This requires that the student. 1
1. Understand the meters of poetry.
2. Understand the subject material at hand.
A student could come up with a poem on material that he has learnt in the class.
#9 Seeing yourself on TV could be either empowering or stimatizing. Most of us have a self image, which is rather flaunted. WE tend to think that the world revolves around us and we are a captain of the ship of detinty. Seeing yourself in the mirror of a video film, could bust that image and thus give one the incentive to improve. It could be empowering after the imporovement can be tangibly observed in later recordings.
#2 : This is a very profound question. I think that carpenters need their tools to perfect their knowledge of carpentry. They can learn about this art, by mere observation. They do not need tools to learn the art. This answer is a specification of what Kant observed about Euclidean geometry. Euclidean geometry is intuitive because of our observations. Non-Euclidean geometry is not.
#3 : I think that the term mindless thinking is a contradiction in terms. Thinking has to be with the mind. We can say "square circle", but if we dissect the concept, it reduces to absurdity.
#13: Some of the tools that can be used in learning are didactic poems for example. These poems can be memorized by the student and the teacher fills them in regarding the meaning of these poems. This will lead them to keep the knowledge with them all their lives.
Topic sentences while reading can also be another tool, which can be used to create an outline of a book.
chapter 6 (pp. 100-120), answer ques. #1, 2.
#1 : They share the responsibility of mutual participation. They should encourage the process by being an active part of the learning community and by taking initiative in the shared learning process. Technology can serve the goals of learning community by giving everyone the opportunity to voice their opinion with a lot of flexibility of time and location. It can get in the way by giving students more opportunities to plagiarize for example, a route if followed will lead to a lack of creativity.
#2 : They can have a monitoring blog, on which students are supposed to post their particular responses. The teacher can monitor this blog and thus give differentiated instruction to the students, thereby enhancing their learning experience.
chapter 6 (pp. 120-137), answer ques. #6, 7
#6 They might have a point saying so. If children are given too much exposure to technology, they could make big digressions from the learning process by getting caught up in the periphery entertainment that comes as a package with beneficial technology.
If they use technology e.g. blogs and wikis in a proper way, it can also lead them to leaning some new things, by a directed approach to group oriented activities. It is thus a two sided sword and is not completely without benefit.
#7 You can have students post their questions to the teacher, and the teacher can respond to everyone, thus helping a group. Group members can also help each other by responding to one another on discussion forums. You can design group activities in which students modify shared documents (google documents is a good example)
chapter 7 (pp. 140-167), answer ques. #3, 5, 7, 9
#3: I would say that online chats distract the children in their classes from real instruction. By real instruction, I mean the transmission of knowledge that comes in person from the teacher. Online chats can distract the students from concentrating on the teacher.
#5: Yes they can, but the assumption holds that parents are willing to use these technologies. Students now a days are generally better than their parents at using communication devices.
Parents can be for example added to a parents group where they can login to make sure that they are in sync with other parents in similar situations.
#7: There are some benefits. In asynchronous systems, students have more time to think and respond. This is particularly important when it comes to analysis situations, in which students have to stop and think. In live situations, students are in pressure to respond right away.
#9: In case of Podcasts, the user can download the file and review it when necessary. He can also listen to the file, whenever he wants. This flexibility gives podcasts more preference over radio transmission. As a result, radio broadcast is not used as much in classrooms.
chapter 4 (pp. 62-80), answer ques. #2, 4, 6
#2 : Brainstorming activities , for example can use mind maps. Another way in which I have used mindmaps, is to enhance vocabulary in case of ESL students. I believe that in order to acquire the native flair of a language, students should be able to link words to concepts. Using mind maps, they can do so in case of new words that they learn.
#4 : I would think that this is particularly a motivating approach. Students can be motivated by telling them that whoever gets to a particular standard in writing for example, his work will be published on the course website for others to look at. This might motivate them to perform good. Teachers can, like in the case of EDPT 200, maintain a community link, which would give the students a sense of belonging to the teacher.
#6: Teachers should be acting as the main collaborators. They for example can be the admin, who monitors a certain group. If they do so, they can post their comments on students' group activities. They can also help students resolve potential conflicts. This way, student communication would carry out more smoothly, and the teacher would also be involved in the process.
CHAPTER 2
#10. I will have to make an assuption that they do not know how to do a goal directed search(which needs to be taught to them). They have the basic abilities to browse the net and to get information from credible and non credible sources.
# 11
1. That the searches have to be goal directed to be efficietn.
2. That there are all kind of websites on the net and they have to figure out a way to distinguish the truth from falsehood.
3. That there are different types of search engines.
#14
`The internet consists of webpages that have been made and posted on a world wide web by many different users. It consists of a backbone and its branches on which users exist. It is possible to search this web. There are also private spaces which have restricted access.
CHAPTER 3
#2 : Generally anything set of observations with prepositions requires an inference to be made based on the rules of deductive logic (or induction in case of science). This can include maths, philosophy, or science in general.
#4 They can do so by testing what they have postulated on unseen conditions. For example, they can test newton's second law of motion on another planet, by seting the g to be something other than 9.8 m/s^2
# 8: This is very hard to do, as immitating the real world can have variables taht the person who is bulding the simulation possibly does not take into account. If I were building a simulation, I would go for something like a mathematical model, as the variables are known and can be controlled. A good simulation would be that of numbers behaving differently in different bases. The variables would be the numbers and their relationship to the bases.
# 10: Because of cursiosity. A person would like to know what it is to be in the shoes of another person and to feel it. I would , for example like to know what it is to be a woman (for example) , another person might like to feel as being the president of the country and to see how it changes the way he views the world.
CHAPTER 8
#1 and #3 are very related so I will attempt to answer them together.
An engaging and effective design would be a design that has to deal with emerging properties. A software, for example is a prosaic example of such a design. When microsoft or apple comes up with an operating system, they always receive feedback from their users of emerging bugs, which they never encoutered from their quality assurance department.
A convergant solution, thus would violate the spirit of an engaging design.
Students can be motivated to continue exploring, by having them design a product which would have some sort of a user interaction. They can thus receive feedback from their users and modify their designs and make them better. An example would be weighwatchers calculator and point tracker ,which can be designed in EXCEL. The users might request the students to add graphs etc, which will keep the students busy.
CHAPTER 9
#1 There have been new theories in the last century which are very hard to visualise. Take einstein's relativity theory as an example. It is hard to imagine how time and space can be visualized. However using modelling programs, such a 4rth dimension can be possibly visualized. Another example would be that of non-Euclidean geometory which is not intuitive but it might be visualized or made more intelligable using technology.
#2 Google earth will definitely give us more of a global village kind of outlook. My father for example who is retired and lives in Pakistan, once opened google earth in which I showed him the location of my appartment in montreal. Such a technology does give the feeling that the world is a small place : )
#4 Mathematics requires students to do abstract thinking. When you are thinking in terms of variables, you are abstracting particular situations to a general situation. Mathematical thinking also involves deducting reasoning from established premises, which is the analytic part of maths.
#5 I don't think so. Imagine television showed you how to ride a bike. You will never will able to do so until you actually went out and rode a bike. A TV can give a student the initial urge to explore. The exploration has to be done by the student in the real world in order to see how things work.
#7 A non technological constructionist activity that uses a great deal of abstraction could be coming up with a didactic poem on a subject. This requires that the student. 1
1. Understand the meters of poetry.
2. Understand the subject material at hand.
A student could come up with a poem on material that he has learnt in the class.
#9 Seeing yourself on TV could be either empowering or stimatizing. Most of us have a self image, which is rather flaunted. WE tend to think that the world revolves around us and we are a captain of the ship of detinty. Seeing yourself in the mirror of a video film, could bust that image and thus give one the incentive to improve. It could be empowering after the imporovement can be tangibly observed in later recordings.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Week 4
In class, we sent the favorites page to Sam. I did not how to make cool text before this, so i think it was useful in that sense. I did not like the idea of making 5 different cool texts, because it was simple enough and we did not need so much practice. Because of this, it caused boredom.
As for the course pack reading, I think that we should be using MS frontpage instead of This NVU, which is a very boring and a simplistic web editor. The reading talks about how MS front page provides access to databases like access and to excel. I think taht this is very exciting and we should be able to make webpages using MSWord and export them to frontpage. The author talks about how he thinks that censorship is not necessary. I think he is wrong. Censorship is necessary for both adults and children. He should read 'pornified' by pamela paul for all the arguments against him.
As for the course pack reading, I think that we should be using MS frontpage instead of This NVU, which is a very boring and a simplistic web editor. The reading talks about how MS front page provides access to databases like access and to excel. I think taht this is very exciting and we should be able to make webpages using MSWord and export them to frontpage. The author talks about how he thinks that censorship is not necessary. I think he is wrong. Censorship is necessary for both adults and children. He should read 'pornified' by pamela paul for all the arguments against him.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
week 3
Comments on the reading and class activity.
I think that we should be taught more advanced techniques of webpage building in the class. Anydumbo could figure out how to use an html editor. You should teach us flash for example.
The third reading focused on the importance of accessing authentic websites for research. I think this is very important. The case was about a child who went to a website that explainedthe death camps of the holoucast as medical camps, and thus thought that the holoucaust did not happen. I think it is important to have skills that can prevent these kinds of errors. We should also hone our kids and ourselves, into giving in to the currents of the times, i.e. many thingsthe media says, which are geared to serving the power elite. An example would be that of the US going into iraq, for the sake of bringing back democracy. This is clearly not true, as shown by Chomsky and many others. Media critique has to be taught, so that children can search for the true intent of people or powerstructures.
I think that we should be taught more advanced techniques of webpage building in the class. Anydumbo could figure out how to use an html editor. You should teach us flash for example.
The third reading focused on the importance of accessing authentic websites for research. I think this is very important. The case was about a child who went to a website that explainedthe death camps of the holoucast as medical camps, and thus thought that the holoucaust did not happen. I think it is important to have skills that can prevent these kinds of errors. We should also hone our kids and ourselves, into giving in to the currents of the times, i.e. many thingsthe media says, which are geared to serving the power elite. An example would be that of the US going into iraq, for the sake of bringing back democracy. This is clearly not true, as shown by Chomsky and many others. Media critique has to be taught, so that children can search for the true intent of people or powerstructures.
week 2
Comments on the reading and class activity.
I think that Same has taught us a very effective way to organize our thoughts, i.e. the concept maps. The reading also talks about the concept maps, i.e. they can be uses in brainstorming, curriculm planning, concept formation etc. I tutor 2 kids, and recently I have used concept mapswith them in vocabulary building. I tell them to think about 5 concepts that go with a certain word and then attach them to the word node. Then based on their 5 concepts, they have to search a picture that best represents the node. They have found this technique really useful for englishvocabulary building.
I think that Same has taught us a very effective way to organize our thoughts, i.e. the concept maps. The reading also talks about the concept maps, i.e. they can be uses in brainstorming, curriculm planning, concept formation etc. I tutor 2 kids, and recently I have used concept mapswith them in vocabulary building. I tell them to think about 5 concepts that go with a certain word and then attach them to the word node. Then based on their 5 concepts, they have to search a picture that best represents the node. They have found this technique really useful for englishvocabulary building.
Week 1
week1
comments about the course pack reading:
This reading makes a very good point that until we think about computers morelike fingerpaing and less like televisions, computers will not live up to their full potential. I agree with this and think that computers should be used for more than entertainment. They should be used to create models, which are not possible or are very difficult to create without them. Children should be encouragedto use computers in this way.
The text makes a point taht in addition to rethinking our apporach to learning and education, wealso need to rethink the technologies that we provide to young people. I disagree with this. I think taht technology at a very young age is something that can be very destructive. In suchcases prevention is the best cure. Once the children become older, technology should be gradually introduced.
Answers to the texbook questions. :
2. I think that leadership theories represent most closely as to what I think about learning. Childrean have this natural urge to learn, which needs to be monitored by constructive leadership on behalf of the teachers.
5. In grade 3 when I learnt that the earth was round, it really shocked me. I remember coming to my father and arguing with him that this fact is wrong. It shocked me as my perception was telling me that the earth is flat. Now this fact has becomre normalized.
6. A topic of controversy might be whether devils cause epilepsy. From the scientific perspectifvethis is an ancient myth. The assumption ofcourse is that the scientific method only holds as its ontological basis, things which are observable. From the other side, the argument can be that the ontology does not necessary require empirical evidence. From this perspective it is possibleto say that devils can cause epilepsy.
15. yes in my last term classes. I think that it made my ideas expressable in a succint and cohesive manner. It made me feel good about myself.
comments about the course pack reading:
This reading makes a very good point that until we think about computers morelike fingerpaing and less like televisions, computers will not live up to their full potential. I agree with this and think that computers should be used for more than entertainment. They should be used to create models, which are not possible or are very difficult to create without them. Children should be encouragedto use computers in this way.
The text makes a point taht in addition to rethinking our apporach to learning and education, wealso need to rethink the technologies that we provide to young people. I disagree with this. I think taht technology at a very young age is something that can be very destructive. In suchcases prevention is the best cure. Once the children become older, technology should be gradually introduced.
Answers to the texbook questions. :
2. I think that leadership theories represent most closely as to what I think about learning. Childrean have this natural urge to learn, which needs to be monitored by constructive leadership on behalf of the teachers.
5. In grade 3 when I learnt that the earth was round, it really shocked me. I remember coming to my father and arguing with him that this fact is wrong. It shocked me as my perception was telling me that the earth is flat. Now this fact has becomre normalized.
6. A topic of controversy might be whether devils cause epilepsy. From the scientific perspectifvethis is an ancient myth. The assumption ofcourse is that the scientific method only holds as its ontological basis, things which are observable. From the other side, the argument can be that the ontology does not necessary require empirical evidence. From this perspective it is possibleto say that devils can cause epilepsy.
15. yes in my last term classes. I think that it made my ideas expressable in a succint and cohesive manner. It made me feel good about myself.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
About Myself
1. Personal info ( who you are, the program you’re in, the year, hobbies, family, etc.).
My name is Hassan Ahmad Mian. I am in secondary-education program. My hobbies include reading and collecting perfumes. I have a wife and son, who is 19 months old.
2. Technology related experience ( what do you use the computer for ? ~~ Word, email, internet, PowerPoint, Facebook, Blogs, etc.)
I have a degree in computer science and have worked in the industry for around 2 years.
3. Why do you think you should integrate technology in the classroom?
It can be helpful when it comes to organizing material.
4. What you expect to get from this course.
learn something new, hopefully
5. What mark and why?
A, I think I should know a lot about what will be taught in this course, already.
My name is Hassan Ahmad Mian. I am in secondary-education program. My hobbies include reading and collecting perfumes. I have a wife and son, who is 19 months old.
2. Technology related experience ( what do you use the computer for ? ~~ Word, email, internet, PowerPoint, Facebook, Blogs, etc.)
I have a degree in computer science and have worked in the industry for around 2 years.
3. Why do you think you should integrate technology in the classroom?
It can be helpful when it comes to organizing material.
4. What you expect to get from this course.
learn something new, hopefully
5. What mark and why?
A, I think I should know a lot about what will be taught in this course, already.
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