week3

Hi Everyone,
OMG! I can't believe how little I know about technology. This week has been both exciting and frustrating as I have muddled my way through blogging, RSS and wiki. I feel so inspired I want to tell everyone how great this technology is! I feel that integrating these tools into the classroom would encourage all students to be engaged. I found all three tools easy to set up, use and navigate. Wiki would be an excellent tool to implement the "engagement theory""engagement theory is based upon the idea of creating collaborative teams that work on ambitious projects that are meaningful to someone outside the classroom"(Greg Kearsley & Ben Shneiderman) The use of "relate, create, donate" enables students to work with others from differing backgrounds allowing a greater understanding of socio-economic diversity. Imagine giving students a task where they needed to gather information from various ICT's and discuss how this information relates to their learning journey's both individually and as a group. The wiki can be used as the main discussion board to help all students to understand the task and relate to their fellow classmates. They could then blog their individual summaries and use a RSS to keep track of and comment on blogs of their classmates. You would have to ensure that there was enough time for students to do this in class time to allow for socio-economic factors(not every student has a computer at home) The information they need to find should be mapped out so as students can easily find the correct information ie:where to find u-tube presentations etc... they can of course ask other students and map their own findings on wiki.
Cheers
Trish

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