28. Being prepared to use tried and true approaches to develop lower order thinking skills?
29. Develop your tool box to several activities, each that hits a different level of thinking skills. Avoid using a scatter gun approach
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Beginning with evaluation from two of the most important perspectives.What do students think about laptops and then…How do teachers use laptops… can they use them better?
Lots of educationalists have views of how to evaluate the impact of laptops in the classroom. It is very hard to create the perfect experiment.This class with laptops, this class without with the same teacher. Too many variables.Does IT change what can be learned? No but now it is learnt is changingEngagement, motivation, attendance, participation important goals
Teacher PD is an important part of the process, but equally as important as finding the suitable platform, infrastructure and setting the expectations at the correct level.
NYT suggesting many schools are dropping laptopsKevin Rudd in Australia, one laptop to each student - aiming for High School ratio of 2:1College in USA, laptops banned by professors. Students bored, old teaching ideas, utter opposite that what we are trying to achieve.
Tabletsvs laptops, Open source software vs preinstalled packageClassroom environment Power supply in the classroom, Wireless projectors?Teacher professional developmentOnline Learning Environments - synergyBudgets for networks, servers, wireless connections – LR investment Technical support – assistance, usually available within school.
Think some students especially boys are tempted by the laptop and become less focused. How does the teacher encourage these students to remain on task more frequently. Students think they are on task but how productive are they and is it easier to monitor in a non-laptop environment. Would this be the same with the class before laptops ?? Probably just different distractions.
How do student perceive the effectiveness of laptops?Engagement in projectsEnjoyment from lessonsFeeling of progressExciting learning tasksBetter examplesVideos / Games / CartoonsAre teachers still good without laptops?
Bugs in internet connections, support staff overstretched, time available to achieve everything.Probably would have enjoyed econ last year as well? New subject, 8 weeks in (before exams)
Best way is through note taking, show exercise book and student notes.
Best way is through note taking, show exercise book (Bai) and student notes (Asuka, Charlie)There is a clear difference between remembering, the recall of facts and knowledge in itsvarious forms like listing, bullet points, highlighting etc., and understanding, constructingmeaning. One only has to look at the young child who can count from 1 to 10 but can nottell you how many fingers you are holding up. Or the student who can recite for you thefirst 20 elements of the periodic table in sequence but can not tell you about each or relatetheir position in the table to the number of electrons in the outer shell and from thereexplain their behaviour. Both of these are examples of recall without understanding.Understanding is building relationships and constructing meaning.Andrew Church
Best way is through note taking, show exercise book and student notes.
Best way is through note taking, show exercise book and student notes.
Best way is through note taking, show exercise book and student notes.