Critical thinking

Critical thinking

1. Tools

   • Equiptment
     • Ipads
     • computers
     • laptops
     • Tablets
     • Mouse and pad
     • cameras

2. Digital Pedagogy

   • DEFINITION Digital pedagogy is the study and use of contemporary digital technologies in teaching and learning
   • Social Constructivist theory- social interaction plays a vital role in the development of cognitive function and higher order thinking skills are a result due to these relationships
     • Theorist Lev Vygotsky
       • Scaffolding- teacher interacting with students and providing instruction to help better their performance with technology is highly important
       • Zone of proximal development (ZPD)- approriate support must be given to the student for them to develop skills with their critical thinking and use of technology

3. Technology based learning- implementing technology into lesson plans. Students can find additional information, stimulation and motivation and can approach them from new and different angles

   • SAMR model
     • This model allows to to think about how you are going to use the technologies that are chosen for a particular task. Substitution- substitute and no functional changeAugmentation- substitute with functional improvementModification- significant task redesignRedefinition-new tasks previously inconceivable
   • Blooms taxonomy
     • Blooms taxonomy model is used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity.
     • Create
       • "creating" stage- involves students using technology to generate ideas, design plans, and produce products
       • Activities
         • songs, games, podcasting, storytelling, video editing, multimedia presentation, cartoon and animation
           • Technology apps
             • Garageband
             • iMovie
             • Video shop
             • Flipbook
             • Storyboard that
             • Pixton
             • Comic Life
             • Powtoons
     • Evaluate
       • "Evaluating" stage-  technology improves the students ability to judge materials/methods based on criteria.
       • Activities
         • survey, hypothesis, judgement, reporting, opinion, self evaluation
           • Technology apps
             • Edmodo
             • TED
             • YouTube
             • Skype
             • Facebook
             • google classroom
     • Apply
       • "Applying" stage- provides students the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to implement procedures and methods 
       • Activities
         • editing, photographs, movie making, presenting, drawing diagram, interviewing, demonstrating
           • Technology apps
             • Flipboard
             • Kidspiration
             • padlet
             • Moviavi
             • Prezi
     • Analyse
       • "Analyse" stage- Technology at this stage can improve the students ability to differentiate between the relevant and the irrelevant, determine relationships, and recognise the organisation of content.
       • Activities
         • Reporting, summarising, graphing, spreadsheeting, creating advertisement
           • Technology apps
             • notes plus
             • dropbox
             • MyHomework
             • microsoft office- excel, word, powerpoint
             • Canva
     • Remember/Understand
       • "Remembering" stage-  Technology in this stage helps the student to improve on defining terms, identifying facts, and locate information. "Understanding" stage- provides opportunities to explain ideas and concepts.
       • Activities
         • Mindmapping, searching, blog, highlighting, social networking, journaling, bookmarking, word processing
           • Technology apps
             • Goconqr
             • Google Docs
             • excel
             • Keynote
             • Powerpoint
             • Prezi
             • Canva
             • Educreations
             • google

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