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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.

A Podcast is:
1. An audio file you create in .mp3 format...
2. Which contains your own radio show or any audio you wish others to have...
3. That you upload along with an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) file to a server (your website for instance)...
4. That your intended listeners download using one of several programs that have been created to retrieve your audio file automatically...
5. So they can listen to it at their convenience on their own iPod or .mp3 player.

That’s it. Now, don’t let things like “RSS file”, “server” or “.mp3 format” scare you.
I’m going to show you exactly how to do all of this in the simplest of terms. By the time we’re done, you’ll be podcasting to the world. Kind of exciting, huh?

Before we get into the mechanics of podcasting, let’s think about just some of the reasons you might want to create your own podcast:
1. You always wanted your own talk show but you don’t own a radio station or work at one.
2. You’re a musician and you want to build up a fan base by providing some of your music to potential fans.
3. You’re a speaker and you want to sell a multi-part audio seminar but don’t want to create CDs, labels, mail them, etc. (Yes, you can use podcasting for profit, too.)
4. You already have a radio show but you want to make certain segments available to the world to increase your reputation and reach.
5. You’re a book author and you want to interest people in buying it by offering a few spoken pages each week to entice them.
6. You’re a school Principal and you want to create your own weekly message to the students.
7. You’re a raving lunatic and you want to rant to the world about conspiracies, UFOs and Men in Black.
Podcasting is for anyone for any reason. It empowers you with a voice that can literally reach around the world.