Thursday, 7 March 2013

Week 2 - Engagement Activity 3: wiki task

Engagement Activity 3  Working in a wiki

Mobile phone in class

Judgement:

What is wrong with this??
·         Students can easily get distracted by this tool and not focusing on learning.

Why will this not work?
·         We have not had enough experience yet with how to bring this technology to class, the current students will be just on experiment
Is this safe?
·         It can be safe if there was enough preparation done, I have confident in technology that can make this approach safe but it brings a lot of risk with it.

Can this be done?
·         This can be done; it takes long time preparation and testing it out, because it can easily go wrong. Students may not learn anything if this does not work well.

The Process:

Where are we now?
·         Some school already have done this.
What is the next step?
·         Regulation about who mobile can be used in class.
Where have we been?
What sort of thinking is needed?
·         Security and safety

Information:

What information do I have?
·         Mobile phone is used by people in their daily life, it plays a very important part of our life now.
·         Most of the students would be very excited about having mobile phone in class.
What are the facts?
·         Mobile is mainly used as a communication tool, now it can also be used as a personal organisor and much more.

What information do I need?
What do I want to KNOW?
·         I will need to know what type of mobile phone is it.
·         What class we are using mobile phone.
·         How often we are going to use it.
·         What type of applications we are going to use for class room?
·         Who has approved those applications for the class room?

Benefits:

What are the good points?
·         Create connection between students, students and teacher.
·         Enhancing learning outcome

Why can this be successful?
·         It can help teaching to be more effective.

Why is this a good thing?
·         This shows that our education system is evolving through time, technology going to classroom is essential because we are living in the world of technology (most of the time), why hide our children from it when they have to face it one day.

Feelings:

How do II feel about this?
·         Very exciting but also see it is a big challenge for teachers to make it work well.

What do I like about the idea?
·         Students will be hooked. Connected the class with students’ life.

What don't I like about the idea?
·         There are expect and unexpected risk with this idea, we may have students isolate themselves and just communicate with people by mobile which is not the intension.


Creativity:

What new ideas are possible with this?
·         We have a new of connecting learners, this would encourage students to communication support each other, this may help students to improve their behaviour in class since we have something that’s related to their life outside of school. Children are the most creative group of people, they may suggest some new ideas as well.

What is my suggestion for success?
·         Make sure the safety control is set up really well.

Can I create something new?
·         Maybe I am not sure yet. Could get students to txt their answers to me instead of paper.

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