Think about the nature of images, and the nature of your learner as introduced in Week 1. Think about the nature of pedagogy and how high level pedagogy could be supported through the use of multimedia by you, the teacher, but primarily by your students in creating media. I played with audio podcasts: see that in my reflection here. And I am starting on my road to being a ‘movie maker’ with video . That's in my reflection here. I am completely sold on how useful all the forms of media use could be in a classroom. For the purpose of the embedded task, I will add more detail to my earlier reflection on images. Below are the characteristics of the contemporary learner from our week one information: Enhanced maturity and control Eagerness to work Social entrepreneurs - change the world Technology users Question traditional choices Value inclusiveness and differentiation - greater diversity is the norm Blurred gender roles Entrepreneurial Seek knowledge - but not necessarily in school Social media is a research tool Multi-task and spatial thinkers Communicate with speed, and images Global collaborators and awareness Co-creators The one that stands out for obvious reason, “communicate with speed, and images”. Today’s learner can see, hear, interpret and express themselves quicker and through not only written word. Think about the age old saying “a picture tells a thousand words”. Our brains read a picture at high speed. Scouring through text books and print articles is time consuming and our learners today memorise content more easily if it image based. source: https://vwo.com/blog/snackable-content/ This infographic explains in more details to above, exactly why infographics are such a great learning tool. It will NOT be my pedagogy to be the all-knowing authoritarian at the front of the class, but rather the facilitator leading them through their school journey. I like Queensland’s Department of Education and Training’s commitment to successful pedagogy: Pedagogy that enhances wellbeing: · builds positive relationships between teacher and students · is responsive to the individual needs of students. Teachers do this by: · demonstrating respect for their students as individuals · providing opportunities for students to: o build on their strengths o use their preferred learning styles o work cooperatively in groups o negotiate what and how they learn. (Source: http://deta.qld.gov.au/initiatives/learningandwellbeing/curriculum.html) In my reflection on images, I used the QCAA curriculum for year 11 subject of Tourism. Link to QCAA Tourism syllabus and sample lesson plans here. I used the example of an excursion to Pumpkin Island aligning to the sample of were listed on QCAA for ''tailoring the travel experience". I believe this would allow opportunity for working co-operatively, build positive relationships and the use of the student's preferred learning style. Using ICTs for this project, where photo taking on the excursion (and certainly video and audio), collating and collaborating on the topic and building this Tourism project of "tailoring the travel experience" using popplet (see below) and sharing on the class wiki. Explore the technical features - how can your selected media be created? How can it be shared? Is it up-loadable, where is it best stored? What sorts of artefacts can you create? As we know, images are easier than ever before to take, edit and share. All phones have a camera. Digital cameras are cheap as chips and there are many editing programs available not to mention the editing features provided with the device the camera is in. This week we looked at the technical side of image manipulation: resizing, resolution etc. I find I learn through doing and referring to the help guide on any site / program and of course youtube. Weebly itself has caused me much headache with getting images in to where I want them. Snippy tool when all else fails for me. Then there are MANY programs for placing these images and other media on a platform to share. I had a play with popplet using a trip to Pumpkin Island for year 11 Tourism class excursion. See below: ![]() USE the SAMR model to identify how media could be used at each level of SAMR in your own teaching context. And lastly, here is my SAMR from the same learning experience:
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Gary Holmes
4/1/2017 11:14:37 pm
Nice thinking Belinda. Images is such a broad topic when considering ICT. I like your link to the curriculum as it demonstrates your understanding of delivering learning outcomes. The pedagogy is up to us and as you stated you are open to learning from those around you. I suggest you ramp up the range of beliefs that you have in your next post. Well done.
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Jemma Wilson
4/2/2017 01:03:31 am
Wow Belinda. This is great. I wonder if I can get away with using your Blog as a Reference in assessments in the future. =)
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Kelly White
4/23/2017 12:49:20 am
Great post Belinda. I especially liked the link you provided to the infographic on why our brains crave infographics. Motivates me to want to keep refining my skills in this area to make an infographic as impressive as this one! Thanks for sharing and look forward to reading more of your posts.
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