Exploring Education through Technology…
I was excited to know that a method I use for teaching many of my science lessons has a name! GEM! For me, the enquiry model I use has evolved out of my constructivism class (Etec 530) where I got totally sold on the instructional model created by Driver and Oldham (1986). Orientation Activation of […]
Exploring My World was a very different experience compared to the Jasper Series and WISE. As an elementary school teacher I like technology tools that allow for a blended learning setup. After the prescriptive nature of WISE the open-ended nature of One World was very welcoming. Theory: The aim for One World is to integrate […]
WISE is based on Inquiry based learning and its two main principles of making thinking visible and to learn in a social environment. My understanding is that the main motivational force behind the creation of Wise is to promote Epistemic understanding of the ideas about nature of science. So the WISE uses the social constructivism […]
Now when planning learning environments following the Jasper Series model, do they have to be as grandiose? I think if the smallest of relevant-realistic activity can provide for the essential underlying assumptions, they are applicable. So the activity needs to be based in reality, a problem needs to be solved, and it should be relevant […]
Jasper series prompted a very robust discussion on Vista. We examined the series through the lens of pedagogy, technology, our own beliefs and practices, and the existing trends. It is impressive that despite being three decades old, the series is based on sound pedagogical beliefs of social constructivism and anchored learning, which are the “trends” […]
Once I got over the dated look of the videos and got into the content, The Jasper series absolutely captivated me! It is a problem based approach of constructivist learning at its best. Based on NCTM standards, the series provides authentic tasks from real life to help students explore math concepts which students solve through […]
An ideal pedagogical design of a technology-enhanced learning experience for math and/or science My vision of an ideal pedagogical design for a technology-enhanced learning environment for math and/or science is not much different from Kozma’s. Kozma recommends that, “Designers should provide students with environments that restructure the discourse of …classrooms around collaborative knowledge building and […]
Defining technology Before reading through the given definitions I jotted down: A tool that improvises our lives –our thoughts-our behaviour -as what I deem technology to be. Then as I read through the definitions, the one that resonated with my thinking was Margaret Roblyer’s. Roblyer (2004) describes technology as technology is us -our tools, our […]