Digital learning

 Digital media  The options of digital media that can be incorporated into classroom pedagogy are endless and continually growing with the digital world. In this blog post, I will discuss a number of digital media that can easily be incorporated into your classrooms, then delve deeper into the exploration of "Thinglink". When looking at digital media and the types of media available to us there would be too many for me to list here. First, let's discuss the most commonly known types of media: Images Photos tell a thousand words and are really great at getting group conversations going, we can use something as simple as a photo to get students' interpretations, understanding analysis, opinions and ideas on a topic. for example, looking at the image below, students can engage in discussion and debates about women in sports, and the clothing and uniform worn by women in sports. Believe it or not this tennis player, Suzanne Lenglen was one of the most controversial tennis...

Web Spaces   “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”  – John Dewey Introduction  The multitude of online spaces that are currently available provides a vast variety of different educational platforms that can be utilised in many ways. The mindmap above displays a small number of web space options that would be beneficial for educational purposes, these can webspace have an unlimited amount of uses depending upon the lesson objective and the creativity of the teacher and students.  Web spaces were once considered a tool whereby information could be gathered and learnt from, this was initially the case during Web 1 (1991), however, with the growing opportunities presented in web spaces today, we can not only learn new knowledge and skills we can collaborate, create, present, build, reflect and interact on a wide scale.  Teachers can use online sites for students to contribute and learn collaborative on a whole class level, they...

  First blog post- week 1 You as a Contemporary Teacher? To what extent is it reasonable to conclude that if you are not experiencing positive or negative emotions about the materials and activities in any learning experience, that you are potentially disinterested or not motivated? DIscuss in relation to your first emotional response to the nature of this unit. I believe that if no positive or negative emotions are triggered by activities within a learning topic or the topic itself there could be little eagerness, motivation and drive to excel within that topic. In relation to this topic, the timing of professional praxis 3 amongst the large workload that the final term presents I felt overwhelmed initially, however, the more I have delved into the content and the assessment tasks I feel excited about the information I can obtain from this unit and find I am eager to learn more. Elaborate on your emotions on engaging further with this unit? Positive, negative. Indifferent? The cre...