Guidelines+for+Assignment+2

Some guidelines for Assignment 2
1. Establish View in Mahara - if you are unsure we will cover this in class. 2. Post comments to those of others. When you access a View, you are able to make comments on that view. 3. Upload examples of any courseware you have created, including WebQuests, movies, PowerPoints etc. 4. Meet curriculum needs (therefore need to identify curriculum!). Either senior syllabus outcomes, or Essential Learnings. 5. Caters for diversity – therefore needs to be multimodal – use audio, visuals, concept mapping, text-based resources etc. Can you think how you could include all of these different types of resources? 6. The design framework will be on Mahara, and added to your View 7. The response you make to feedback will be on Mahara, and added to your View 8. Your products could conceivably be on Mahara ….or 9. Your products could be created elsewhere and linked from Mahara Then, create a learning design of a unit that uses ICT for learning with great digital pedagogy. It does not need to be vast, you do not need to demonstrate anything more than once! But it does need to be sufficient to demonstrate your plans within Kearsley and Schneiderman's frameworks.

Dissecting the criteria sheet…
You need to show: Clear and explicit connections between student developmental needs, interest, prior knowledge and experience and the design and anticipated outcomes of your unit. This means you will have to profile your learners and present the results of that profile. And it is here that you can create strong links with the frameworks. || || A transdisciplinary approach to learning. For secondaries, you may identify areas that touch on what you are doing, for example HPE and Science would touch work on nutrition. So you can create links in this way. But rather than gratuitous links, you can also consider approaches with embedded literacy and numeracy strategies. Your reading work from LM1 should support this relatively easily. The other approach for secondaries is to point out that you are integrating LEARNING AREAS (as worded in the outcome) which means that you are integrating organisers within your KLA. || || Use of eLearning technologies that support learning both in class, and beyond the classroom. This can include activities that are completed online for homework etc. But better pedagogy is the use of communication tools to connect to information and people across a range of contexts, local, national and global. || || A strong commitment to new technologies but with a pedagogical focus – how can your pedagogy be enhanced with ICT tools? I do not expect to see information transmission models. I expect to see problem-based learning, authentic contexts, connection to authentic sources of information, opportunities for students to construct their own knowledge collaboratively with others, scaffolding with a range of learning tools to support all learners – ie multimodal resources. || || Sharing ideas with your colleagues, through critique and suggestion on their blogs. Can I suggest a feedback protocol? Warm feedback, then cool feedback, then interestings (including suggestions to strengthen their planned unit). || || You are not expected to implement the unit, however all materials that you will need to teach the unit need to be ready-to-go. In many cases, a modelled student response will strengthen your unit, and strengthen your claim to constructivism in scaffolding student learning. || || Think about the Dimensions of Learning and the 8 LMQs and your scaffolding will be fine. Think of good pedagogical task design – authentic, rich tasks that are embedded into real contexts. And your work within the Kearsley framework will fit. Think of learning design – from DOL2 to DOL3 and then into DOL4 as a task. Think of constructivism, which states that collaborative construction of knowledge is a key element. Where and how will your students collaborate? How will you make the participation of EACH student meaningful? I have recommended strongly that you return to the TPACK framework and identify a clear purpose for your use of ICT. You may think totally outside the box, but if you are concerned, the framework and activity types will be very supportive of your decisions. [] Should you wish to work in global contexts with your students on a blog, wiki, discussion forum or webconference, you may be wanting to find out how to connect your students to others? The ePals site is a great start. [] Please show me some elements of a learning cycle – you cannot fit into Kearsleys’s framework without a cycle of engaging with information in collaborative teams, creating a project-based solution that is student-centred and authentic, and creating a solution/suggestion/submission for sharing within the wider real-life context.