Week 2

This week in class we signed up for a wiki and website. We also touched base on the Teaching Frameworks that we can use.

Teaching Frameworks

TPack is a framework that acknowledges that subject area experts know their content and know the digital tools that combine with pedagogies for learning specific content.

Engagement Learning Theory - Engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation. In addition, students are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of the learning environment and activities.(Kearsley & Schniederman, 2009)viewed at:http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm

Big Six framework is a framework that is highly effective for use in problem based learning in any area from kindergarten to higher education learning and is used globally.

After reading throught the overview I have decided that I will use the Big 6 Framework for my assessment.

These frameworks are all similar in that they achieve promote higher order thinking and utilise the ICT digital tools best suited to the subject area while incorporating the pedagogy.

Wiki's are online tools where users/guests can edit, modify, add and remove information. As teachers we can set up a wiki and by giving our students the name of the space have them access and communicate online within a learning experience.

However like everything there can be an occassional hiccup when you have too many users/guests accessing and writing to the wiki at the same time.

But don't be disheartened luckily you can get back the history for a previous date which is mighty handy if material is lost.

This is my wikispace:
http://traceye-learning.wikispaces.com/

Websites

We then created an account for our own free website from weebly.com.

Websites are different to blogs and wikis because you can decide on what is displayed and can be accessed on your website and noone is able to edit, modify, comment or remove information.

This is my website:
http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php