Reflection.......

Reaffirmed that it is important to understand the fundamentals of the tools and the eco system before designing lessons.  Creating a culture of support rather than blame will help students to thrive better.

There is abundant information outside the classroom in the networked world. Students can leverage technology to learn and tap community knowledge in the digital world. Teachers need to connect with their students and design learning that is relevant to them, and enable them to take responsibility of their learning.

Reflection from Hidayah

As we move towards a shift in the education landscape, we have to be well equipped about the fundamentals and the ecosystem of how the tools and applications function. Only then can effective teaching and learning take place. As a teacher, we need to be prepared that what we want to teach may be taken to another level when our students explore other platforms to extend their learning experience. It is then crucial that the teacher be the pivotal point to assess what is relevant.

Pauline's Insights...

One question that struck me this morning is 

"How to engage those who don’t know what they don’t know?". 

It seems that we may be sometimes assuming that our students know how to learn in the ICT-enriched learning environment, especially as they are supposedly "THE" digital natives". But why is it still so difficult for teachers to seamlessly integrate technology into T&L? Maybe we should rethink how we can do this better by considering the needs of our students who may not know what they don't know before even thinking of how to engage them in this learning environment to design for learning to happen. 

So maybe the first step for myself would be to reflect how differently I am learning now (either at work or building my interests) vs how I used to learn when I was in school... 

My reflections:

Donaldson’s Review:  literacy, numeracy and digital competence.  It is interesting that he emphases on “digital” as it seems normal to many that we are already living in a digital world, why need to?  With fast and the evolution of technology, and with our kids the fingers and thumbs generation, it is imperative to educate them digital as part of holistic education and we should not underestimate the power and influence of the “1s and Os”.

Reflections from Hwee Hwee

As teachers, we need to understand our students well. This includes building good rapport with them and tapping on their familiarity in the digital space to enhance their learning. We need to believe in our students and not to show any biases towards any one.

Teachers need to be brave to explore the different types of technology so that we can tap on the affordances of the technology for teaching and learning. Being familiar with the tools also helped teachers to be able to provide the necessary and appropriate advices to students.

Insight from PD (AM)

Knowing what we don’t know and providing a top view. To get teachers to try out integrating technology in teaching & learning, they first need to know what they don't know about the internet. E.g. use of private and public online communities for learning. 

      The question is whether we know what we don't know.