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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

My thoughts on how to manage or structure learning outcomes with the use of ICT ?

Question:
How can a teacher manage or structure learning outcomes with the use of ICT mediated learning?

my thoughts:
using any learning cycle that you already familiar with, perhaps the 5e learning cycle of Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate, we can plan an learning experience using this or any others as a lesson design framework.



image from http://stemresources.com/lesson_builders/learning-cycle


For example, in the learning of science
  • "engage" can be non-ICT, perhaps using everyday materials to relate to real life and allow students to "see" the relationship to real life applications of this learning lesson later perhaps by means of using hands-on or demonstration.
  • "explore" depends on the available resources in school lab or WWW, a teacher could use real life data logger and/or a simulation to allow exploring of the science phenomena to ground experiential learning. ICT afford strongly here for learner centered pedagogy through guided inquiry strategies.
  • "explain, elaborate and evaluate" could be simple pen and paper activities using collaborative group work, depending on the difficulties of the tasks.
  • "extend" the 6e (there are literature on 7e as a development of 5e) could be where students perform an assignment to demonstrate their understanding and ICT has abundant affordances here as well. Students can choose to create mind-map, presentation, poster, physical or computer model as possible performance task where they self direct and extend what they learned. A rubrics of the assessment needs to be clearly communicated and final year grading marks need to be apportioned to reflect the importance of this assignment.

the lesson here in ICT connection has some of the stages of 5e for your reference. http://ictconnection.edumall.sg/cos/o.x?ptid=711&c=/ictconnection/ictlib&func=view&rid=18
this lesson by the Open Source Physics community could situate my explanation more meaningfully
http://www.compadre.org/osp/items/detail.cfm?ID=9308
http://www.compadre.org/osp/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9308&DocID=1370&Attachment=1





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