Designing a learning element through learning by design has engaged me in thinking more about how students learn rather than how to teach them. Having a deeper understanding about the knowledge processes and what blocks them has assisted me with understanding what transformative learning looks like. The key elements in designing transformative learning experiences include;… [Read more…]
April 4, 2010
Upload a proxy into every adolescents brain and watch them get wired to learn! Could it really be that easy? Adolescents who are tuned to how their brains are wired, understand why they react/respond like they do will be more able to make choices about LEARNING. Go to http://cglearner.com/ and scroll to ‘Use it or lose it!, a learning… [Read more…]
December 26, 2009
One Step Ahead of New Media! As educators isn’t that where we need to be? Policy makers, be the hackers, hack into it! Imaginbe One Global Educational Office! Providing relevant research today to teachers! Providing global links to students! Providing explicit instruction with the end designed! Providing support to lower the consequence of failure! It doesn’t matter… [Read more…]
November 1, 2009
I had the pleasure of listening to James Gee discuss learning principles of video games at an ALEA conference on the Gold Coast in 2004 and have since read his book, What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. This blog is how I have applied some of these principles in my classroom. I will be… [Read more…]
May 18, 2009
Seating plans that enhance learning and shift the agency of being a responsible learner onto the students. I have always had a seating plan and in the past I have controlled the seating within my classroom. Sometimes creatively, sometimes out of frustration, most of the time to minimise behaviour issues. I have setup cooperative, ability, random and friendly seating plans. I have set… [Read more…]
May 16, 2009
Connecting knowledge relativism and learning highlights two perspectives for me. If we want to engage our brains in higher order thinking we need engage in activities that question ideas, beliefs, values and facts. We need to ask why, find answers and still look for more. In this instance, at this stage I agree with the critics… [Read more…]
May 16, 2009
When I think about the people I know who are committed to religious truths, from my perspective, I see people looking for direction, answers and perhaps excuses/reasons why things are the way they are. Answers to how the earth came to be, why the earth came to be and their goal in life is to behave… [Read more…]
April 25, 2009
I am much happier with my wiki entry this week. After losing my amazing Mum in March my cloudy brain is starting to clear and make connections again. This reading relates to the topic I have chosen for my LbD, adolescent brain development, ‘Use it or Lose it’. Providing a learning opportunity for teenagers to… [Read more…]
April 21, 2009
Learners not ready to learn certain things has proved a challenge for the educators of yesterday, today and will continue to challenge us tomorrow. Brain developmentalism has provided a view of learning from a biological perspective. The constructivist aspect of a learners brain enables us to identify the level at which students in our classroom are operating. Pre-language; language and… [Read more…]
April 5, 2010
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