Blog Response Prompt:
What are you most excited about having learned about Multimedia in Instructional
Design? What will be most challenging for you as you leave this class and move forward
in your teaching education?
I am most excited about all of the open source software I have been introduced to throughout this term. There are so many free online resources available for both teachers and students. A regular classroom experience can be made worldly and extraordinary through some of the online resources available on the web. I really like the idea of using blogspot for online journaling for any class. Since I am an aspiring French teacher, I would use blogspot for French language assignments, and have classmates comment on the blogs in French. Students would be allowed to make their blogs creative and personal so that they are motivated to work with them.
The biggest challenge that I will be experiencing is through student teaching, because I am graduating in June. I will carry my knowledge of this class and try to implement it in my student teaching experience as well as my teaching experience in France.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Week 8
What do you need to change in your thought process or learning style(s) to begin to adapt to R-Directed thinking for the purpose of creating 21st Century learning environments for students?
"R-Directed Thinking is simultaneous, metaphorical, aesthetic, contextual and synthetic"
*High-concept and high-touch*
Students need more freedoms in their assignments than before. For example, a work-sheet really is not going to cut it. Worksheets allow no imaginative thought or even original thought. Instead of a pre-programmed artifact, students should pick their subject (given certain perameters) and have the ability to create something of their own. Something original. This, obviously, is going to cause more work for the teacher because her students won't have created cookie cutter work. But then again, don't we want our students to express themselves? Isn't that what makes them passionate about learning?
Also, teachers need to find new resources for learning...videos, internet, ipods, blogs, online penpals. Anything "out-of-the-ordinary" will get students to be engaged with their own learning. Thus, they will become self-reliant and self-motivated.
"R-Directed Thinking is simultaneous, metaphorical, aesthetic, contextual and synthetic"
*High-concept and high-touch*
Students need more freedoms in their assignments than before. For example, a work-sheet really is not going to cut it. Worksheets allow no imaginative thought or even original thought. Instead of a pre-programmed artifact, students should pick their subject (given certain perameters) and have the ability to create something of their own. Something original. This, obviously, is going to cause more work for the teacher because her students won't have created cookie cutter work. But then again, don't we want our students to express themselves? Isn't that what makes them passionate about learning?
Also, teachers need to find new resources for learning...videos, internet, ipods, blogs, online penpals. Anything "out-of-the-ordinary" will get students to be engaged with their own learning. Thus, they will become self-reliant and self-motivated.
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