Assessment 2 Part B of Blog
- A selection of graphics / images - The selection of graphics and images are photos of my family and myself just doing random things.
- A Video Clip - The 2 video clips i have aren't meant to be educational, just meant to be funny. It was really just a test to see if I could do it.
- A sound file - The sound file is by an artist that i like and i really like the song.
- A graphic organiser - My inspiration is a mind map of an article we read in class and we had to take the main points down.
- An Online Game - The online game I choose was a snowboarding game and it's just fun to play.
Two questions we have to answer
- Which learning style/s does this ICT support? (consider Gardner)
- How could this ICT be implemented as a good cognitive tool within the learning environment? (consider Hattie, Vygotsky, Bloom’s taxonomy)
Question 1
Which Learning style does this ICT support?
A selection of Graphics/Images
- A selection of images and/or graphics i have used are good for visual learners. If you have visual learners in a class as well as existential and intrapersonal you could teach them as Introspective learners and this covers all 3 intelligences making it easier to teach more than 1 person with that specific intelligence at a time.
A Video Clip
- A Video Clip can be useful for 2 of Gardner's Intelligences the Linguistic and the Visual learners. Once again if you classify these into broader categories it comes under Interactive and Introspective. This can cover more than just 2 intelligences, it can cover 6 of them.
A Sound File
- A Sound File can be useful for 2 of Gardner's intelligences Linguistic and Rhythmic. Again it covers 2 categories and they are Interactive and Analytic. Covering 6 intelligences instead of just 2.
A Graphic Organiser
- A Graphic Organiser can be useful for just about any of Gardner's intelligences. This is because you can add colours, pictures, images, sound files, it is written, you can make them rhyme, you can do any thing with them. So you can teach anyone with a graphic organiser.
An Online Game
- An Online Game is usually specific to a particular intelligence. So any one intelligence can be used and challenged. The game i have a link to is a snowboarding game and this is specific to Kinaesthetic learners.
Question 2
How could this ICT be implemented as a good cognitive tool within the learning environment?
An ICT class should be interactive, as a teacher I would give my students a sheet of instructions and let them work at their own pace. An ICT class should be completely interactive, if it's not then what is the point of having the computers in front of you. You should be sitting in a classroom or a lecture hall lecturing the students. Not all students are competent with computers while others are absolute whizzes on them. If you direct the class you may be going to fast for someone’s computer skills and too slow for someone else's. If the students direct themselves and you act as a guide and keep them on track you will find they will learn more and enjoy the class more. Also if you let them do their own work they could work in their appropriate learning style and take more information in.
A selection of Graphics/Images
A selection of Graphics and/or Images can help those visual learners and increase what they absorb in a particular lesson or topic. This can be especially useful when setting exam questions or assignments if the person is visual they will learn more through diagrams, so maybe we should make allowances for that when doing ICT assignments and exams. Images and graphics can also be applicable to Bloom’s taxonomy. It can vary from just looking at the picture and saying what it is to, analyzing the graphics and images. Vygotsky is also important here, it can be great for group work, it allows students to be more creative and sometimes can get a greater response for that question.
A Video Clip
A Video Clip can help those who are linguistic and the visual learners. Having ICT classes are extremely useful for a person who learns like this, because there are many avenues on the internet and programs that can help a person who learns this way to study and do assignments and exams. As a teacher you should open up all of these avenues for a student to increase their learning power and ability. A video clip can incorporate Bloom’s taxonomy and it can be extremely successful with using Vygotsky. Video clips can increase in levels of difficulty were it goes from watching a video clip and analyzing it to making one. This is social interaction and it is very useful and it can bring out students more creative side.
A Sound File
A Sound File can help those who learn through linguistic and rhythmic intelligences. There are many ways for these students to increase their learning and as a teacher I would open up these avenues for the students. There are many different avenues on the internet and programs that they can use, I would show them these programs and try to teach them this way. A sound file can also incorporate Bloom’s Taxonomy; this is shown through different levels of sounds and the files that can be made or heard. Vygotsky can also be useful here, because of pair work and this can also make them more creative in their assessments and their learning.
A Graphic Organiser
A Graphic Organiser is useful for all learning types and it can involve all levels of Bloom, it can involve Vygotsky and Hattie (marking by the teacher and peer assessment) it is a very useful tool for learning and it is great for interaction.
An Online Game
An Online Game is useful for all subjects and learning styles. The games must be specific to that particular intelligence that the student is, otherwise it would be counter productive. There are different levels of games for the different levels of Bloom; the games get harder as the levels go up. Also games are good for social interaction, they can connect through the internet and play each other or they can play in pairs or even play by themselves but try to beat each others highest score.
1 comment:
Hi Karlie,
I was interested to read about one of the questions that you have been asked to answer:
"How could this ICT be implemented as a good cognitive tool within the learning environment? (consider Hattie, Vygotsky, Bloom’s taxonomy)"
I would be more tempted to ask: How relevant are the theories of Vygotsky, Bloom et al today? Or at the very least, is it time to reinterpret them?
One of the foundations of Vygotskian psychology is that a child learns about cultural and societal norms through their interactions with others (notably parents and other adults). There seems to me to be a at least a couple of problems with that:
Children are using the net to connect with a far larger group of people who are more diverse in terms of age, culture, physical location etc.
The rate of change in communication methods and practices is leaving many adults behind. Surely that makes those parent/child, adult/child relationships actually less relevant?
Do you have any thoughts?
I'm interested and encouraged to see that Gardner is being taught, in as far as his work gets you to think about multiple intelligences. But it always raises fears in me when I see terms like 'kinesthetic learners', which seems to assume that individuals are single channel learners. As trainers and teachers we need to stimulate all the senses in order to achieve effective learning outcomes.
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