ICTs Week One Activity and Thoughts

Learning Activity One

1. Think about your own education -- what has it resembled to date? Was it a remnant of the Industrial Age or was it based around the skills required for the 21st century?

I think my education was based around the skills required for the 21^st century. I remember my schools trying really hard to have the latest technology even in primary school. I never really thought about it much until reading this but we got taught at a very young age how to do a power point presentation, I was only in yr 5 so 1999. I suppose you don’t think about it much when that is the way you are taught, but at the same time, the thought of interactive whiteboards scares me because it is unknown.

2. Future work was written 10 years ago. Think about where we are now and the rapid changes that have occurred even since this article was written.

The section that stood out to me the most was the “digital phones and personal digital assistants” as cutting edge equipment. This has obviously advanced over ten years to iphones/ipads etc. I agree in some instants though where it states about take away food employment rising, the fact that computer related jobs will grow such as computer engineers etc. This article was correct in predicting the importance or “take over” of computers and this made me think about the self checkouts in Woolworths or Big W. Will there be such thing as a checkout chick in 10 years? Another point was that the article could have never predicted the economic downfall that occurred.

3. How does the author differentiate between Mode 1 and 2 knowledge and what implications does this have for you as a teaching professional?

Mode one was based around the a single concept meaning it was produced my individuals in universities or traditional research centres whereas mode two seems like it has a collective based research knowledge. It was produced in diverse sites by teams. Mode one seems to be what you know and Mode two is more what you can achieve with this knowledge.

4. How do Smith and Mienczakowski ideas work, or conflict with the three readings above?

The Smith and Mienczakowski have the same main points as most of the articles do but I think the most similar is the Mode two as it has the same broad approach to knowledge. It states in the article that the BLM program in 2000 used to be focused on “what students know, rather than how they use that knowledge” (Seltzer and Bentley 1999, p. 9). This reflects what the Mode Two was trying to say as the new BLM was trying to develop a new strategy, “one that involves all parts of education and training systems, including the community and the schools”. This was the main concept in the Mode two article. I think that the 8 Learning Management questions were really useful too.

Social Capital Learning Activity

1. How valid are the speakers ideas about social capital and family values in today's children?

I thought that this clip was really interesting. It made me think of how much time has changed, it is sort of a safety thing too and what the world has turned into. “Life was rich outside of School”. I believe that students can still get this richness from outside of school but this also depends on values, morals, family, religion etc. She made some interesting points and made me think about life experiences that students learn and bring to school. Everyone is different.

Power Point Learning Activity

Just some ideas, it is only week one so I am sure this list will grow and grow!

· Enrich the students with experience in the classroom and even use the experiences they bring in

· To establish a creative pedagogy that will benefit all students and keep them engaged!

· Establish that not one student is the same and how to manage diversity

· Teaching and learning at the same time.

· Have a mutual level of respect

· Change your strategies if it is not working, develop a new way of learning

· Create a pedagogy that is learner focused and not teacher focused

· Use every resource to guide the students ICT’s etc.

· We are not teachers we are learning managers

· Learning Management as: "the capacity to design pedagogic strategies that achieve learning outcomes in students". (Smith & Lynch)