From my perspective, blogs are a powerful yet underrated teaching tool.
Blogs allow the user to post ideas, concepts and viewpoints about any particular subject or issue from which he/she is so inclined.
Blogs don't only just stop there, a user can link up with other blog authors and comment or feedback on what they have written. Of course, the standard netiquette rules would apply when conversing in a blog.
So what really is good about using blogs for teaching? Here are some points for us to think about;
In general, the student is able to write a reviw on the day's lesson, retracing the learning concepts and activities.
In terms of language practice, blogs allow students to practice in writing english and creating short little expositions.
Blogs also allow the student to craft out a respository of sections that pertain to the subjects he/she is interested in. Sections such as "english" "science" "moral education" "games" "PE" can be created to allow the student segmentise their content. Why so? This is to help student organise the information that he/she has gathered during the course of their learning journey.
Blogs don't only allow text. The blog is virtually a mini-space of information where students can use media to express their ideas. Links to resources, news clips and other websites can be added, video, sound and images can be added.
Using blogs and their related tools can really add on to a student's motivation and engagement in their own subjects. Lets not take it lightly and harness it to enhance our own teaching experience.
What do you think?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Question 1
" How does writing reflection help the learner’s learning? "
This was posted in my notes today. A very interesting question, as I feel that many people have a "problem-solving" concept when dealing with learning.
Simply, question and answer sessions.
In my perspective, reflection adds a form of dynamism to the approach of problem and answer.
Writing a reflection helps the learner to retrace the steps taken during the learning process. From looking at the question to gathering of knowledge and filtration of the most important concepts during the learning process.
In addition, the learner would evaluate about what he/she has learnt. A review of "what has been done" is important as the learner would need to know what points to take note of, which aspects of the learning is important and what more needs to be done.
From today's class, i have learnt that reflections need not neccessarily have "follow up actions". Somehow, i always had the impression that after doing some reflections, we would need to act on them, which isn't neccessarily true.
What do you think?
This was posted in my notes today. A very interesting question, as I feel that many people have a "problem-solving" concept when dealing with learning.
Simply, question and answer sessions.
In my perspective, reflection adds a form of dynamism to the approach of problem and answer.
Writing a reflection helps the learner to retrace the steps taken during the learning process. From looking at the question to gathering of knowledge and filtration of the most important concepts during the learning process.
In addition, the learner would evaluate about what he/she has learnt. A review of "what has been done" is important as the learner would need to know what points to take note of, which aspects of the learning is important and what more needs to be done.
From today's class, i have learnt that reflections need not neccessarily have "follow up actions". Somehow, i always had the impression that after doing some reflections, we would need to act on them, which isn't neccessarily true.
What do you think?
The first post
Hello and this is my first blog post on my new blog.
This blog is dedicated to some of the reflections about my ICT classes.
This blog is dedicated to some of the reflections about my ICT classes.
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