Topic 4

Topic 4

1. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

   • Using pedagogy that enhances the learning experience through the use of ICT's with an emphasis on the competencies the student is developing, that are relevant to being in a digital world.
   • A series of prompts or interconnectedness gears to check your teaching from planning to implementation: The attributes gears, the Motivation gears, the Blooms gears, the Technology gears, the SAMR Model gear.
     • The Attributes Gears: The core of learning design. Constantly visiting things like ethics, responsibility & citizenshios.
     • The Motivation Gear: Ask yourself, "How does everything building & teaching give the learner autonomy, mastery and purpose?
     • The Blooms Gear: Helps you design learning objectives that achiever higher order thinking.Try get at least one learning objective from each category. Only after this, are you ready for technology enhancement.
     • The Technology Gear: Ask, "How can this serve your pedagogy? Apps are only suggestions, look for better ones & combine more that one in a learning sequence.
     • The SAMR Model Gear: This is, "How are you going to use the technologies you have chosen?"
   • It is as much about using digital tools thoughtfully as it is about deciding when not to use digital tools, and about paying attention to the impact of digital tools on learning.

2. CRITICAL THINKING

   • A skill that can be developed at any age
   • Teachers need to know how they are going to facilitate critical thinking in students.
     • Might mean working on set of strategies; both for the classroom & your own critical thinking
   • In 1941, Edward Glaser, suggested that critical thinking means, "An attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtfully the problems and subjects, that care within the range of one's experiences."
     • As well as, "Knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning"
     • Glaser suggested a framework: R (recognise assumptions), E (evaluate arguments), D (draw conclusions)
   • Characteristics a Critical Thinker would have: - Ask the right questions - Formulate good questions - Know what is relevant and irrelevant - Recognise self and other's bias - Make assumptions that they analyse
   • What separates people of today from the ones in the 1940's, is the access to the vast amount of information that we're required to decipher in our everyday lives.