1. Summary
I feel that all in all, Mrs Xing needs to sit down and think about her lesson objectives for her students. In her class, it seems like one of the objectives is for HER to complete marking essays, which is strange as when she is doing that IN the classroom, her students would be waiting, thus, not learning anything. If she had kept her LOs simple, maybe by the end of the lesson, her students should be able to write out a composition based on the topic and maybe get feedback from one peer and if there is time, students could revise some parts of their compos before handing them in.
Another major problem with her lesson is that her instructions are not clear right from the start of the lesson. If she had stated clearly her expectations of the standard of compositions they had to hand in at the end of the lesson, she would not get students who would do the work just for the sake of finishing it. She should sit them down in the front of the lab before they get to work on their PCs. She could also use a software which allows her to project her instructions on every PC being used by her students. This will get their attention and she can revise her instructions according to the class progress or lack of. From the video in the resource page on the wiki, one other technique she could use is to appoint some students who are stronger in using the PCs to be her helpers or guides. Thus, when there are some students who have problems, she could instruct these guides to help while she focuses on the very weak students or on monitoring the rest of the class.
References:
http://155.69.84.21/wbaml/Resource/L0217/page3.htm
Video clip on managing a full-lab enviromment
2. Reflection
I feel that through this e-learning week, it takes a lot of self-motivation to get it "right". I mean, with hardly any monitoring from the teacher/tutor, I find that it was hard for me to be really on-task and that the thing that "scares" me reli, is that my participation is graded. hee...
So I'm left wondering at the end of this e-learning week, whether my students will be as motivated to do the job. There will definitely be those who do not care about grades or punishment. They will either ignore it, or put the least effort into it. How am I going to encourage them to appreciate the ICT tools and convince them these will benefit their learning? If they don't get it, they just won't buy it. My only concern is, will using ICT really have a lot of value-add on students' learning? Or is it just a fancy way of teaching something but not as effective as lessons without too much usage of ICT?
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
E- Learning Summary & Conclusion
Summary
Time to post what I have learnt!
To summarize everything, before Mrs Xing starts planning for her ICT lesson, she needs to know her students ability in using computers. Once she analyse and know their computer ability, she could her group students and appointing a leader for each group. This will help her ease the trouble of going to each students if they have any problems. Also, she needs to ensure that all resources and equipment are sufficient and working.
Coming up with a detailed lesson plan is important to ensure that all loopholes are being looked into. Stating the objectives and giving detailed instructions before the start of lessons or a day before will help to keep the class focused on what needs to be done. During briefing, she could include the rules of the lesson to maintain discipline and the structure of narrative.
To ease her from having to check all 40 scripts, she could pair the students up to counter-check their work. She could also advise her students to use the "F7" to correct their spelling and grammar. This will help to lighten her burden of correcting their spelling and grammar.
She could stop the lesson halfway to check on the students progress. She could use the "lock software" where she can control the students'computers. Once she knows of the students' progress, she could gauge how many would have finished and helped her with the checking of scripts. Else, she could asked those who have finished to do some worksheets, known as fillers, to occupy their time.
References:
Managing a full-computer lab learning environment.
http://155.69.84.21/wbaml/Resource/L0217/page3.htm
Implementing ICT Lessons
http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edumall/tl/it_integration/engaging_it_practices/lessondesign(i).htm
Wong, F.L.A., Divaharan, S. & Choy D. (2010). Planning for effective learning. In C.S. Chai, & Q. Wang, ICT: For self-directed and collaborative learning (pp.81-106).Singapore: Pearson.
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Reflection
1) Have I achieved my learning goals? How did I make that happen? Were my learning strategies effective and efficient? How might they be improved?
I believed that I have achieved my learning goals through reading and watching various websites and ICT book. I find that my learning strategies were not effective as I tend to need 'get-the-right-mood' before I start to do my E-learning. This result in me procastinating to get things to done; last minute work. Hence, I realised that if I want to get things done, I need to push myself and not 'get-the-right-mood' to start my work. Afterall, it's all in your mind. =)
2)Did the group processes support my group's learning? Why and why not? How can I/we improve?
With the group members commenting on my views, it helps to think crucially on the points that I have listed. Some may not agree on the point listed. Therefore, I may need to explain further to get my point noted to them.
I need to be more involved in the discussion to help my group member in their post.
Time to post what I have learnt!
To summarize everything, before Mrs Xing starts planning for her ICT lesson, she needs to know her students ability in using computers. Once she analyse and know their computer ability, she could her group students and appointing a leader for each group. This will help her ease the trouble of going to each students if they have any problems. Also, she needs to ensure that all resources and equipment are sufficient and working.
Coming up with a detailed lesson plan is important to ensure that all loopholes are being looked into. Stating the objectives and giving detailed instructions before the start of lessons or a day before will help to keep the class focused on what needs to be done. During briefing, she could include the rules of the lesson to maintain discipline and the structure of narrative.
To ease her from having to check all 40 scripts, she could pair the students up to counter-check their work. She could also advise her students to use the "F7" to correct their spelling and grammar. This will help to lighten her burden of correcting their spelling and grammar.
She could stop the lesson halfway to check on the students progress. She could use the "lock software" where she can control the students'computers. Once she knows of the students' progress, she could gauge how many would have finished and helped her with the checking of scripts. Else, she could asked those who have finished to do some worksheets, known as fillers, to occupy their time.
References:
Managing a full-computer lab learning environment.
http://155.69.84.21/wbaml/Resource/L0217/page3.htm
Implementing ICT Lessons
http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edumall/tl/it_integration/engaging_it_practices/lessondesign(i).htm
Wong, F.L.A., Divaharan, S. & Choy D. (2010). Planning for effective learning. In C.S. Chai, & Q. Wang, ICT: For self-directed and collaborative learning (pp.81-106).Singapore: Pearson.
Reflection
1) Have I achieved my learning goals? How did I make that happen? Were my learning strategies effective and efficient? How might they be improved?
I believed that I have achieved my learning goals through reading and watching various websites and ICT book. I find that my learning strategies were not effective as I tend to need 'get-the-right-mood' before I start to do my E-learning. This result in me procastinating to get things to done; last minute work. Hence, I realised that if I want to get things done, I need to push myself and not 'get-the-right-mood' to start my work. Afterall, it's all in your mind. =)
2)Did the group processes support my group's learning? Why and why not? How can I/we improve?
With the group members commenting on my views, it helps to think crucially on the points that I have listed. Some may not agree on the point listed. Therefore, I may need to explain further to get my point noted to them.
I need to be more involved in the discussion to help my group member in their post.
Sa'adah's Summary
To summaries, Mrs Xing should strategies properly after identifying the objectives she wants to achieve. She then must analyse her learners as mentioned by Wong, Divaharan & Choy (2010), information about your students is of utmost importance (as cited in Chai & Wang, 2010, p.83). Such information will be useful when planning for lesson.Since she will be bringing them to the computer lab, it is important for her to keep in mind the seating arrangement and laboratory rules which the students should conform to (Wong, Divaharan & Wettasinghe, 2010, p.145). Preparations such as brainstorming and using Concept-Mapping Tool to organize student’s thoughts (“Engaging ICT Practices for Teachers: Classroom 3”, 2009) will reduce poorly written scripts. She must also decide whether to use MSWord or create writing portals for her children to edit their essays. Teachers must be ready with additional activities for those who finish faster (Wong et al., 2010, p.146). Students will learn how to edit and critique each others work constructively using a set of rubrics (“Engaging ICT Practices for Teachers: Classroom 3”, 2009) to minimize the number of scripts she has to edit. In the lab, she will monitor their work via a management software and students are to be kept informed so they are wary of their actions as mentioned by Wong et al., (2010, p.153). This peer-editing process may spread over a few days and finally she will check only the final draft. Most importantly, she must take-up IT courses before embarking and updates her IT knowledge.
Reference:
Wong, F.L.A., Divaharan, S. & Choy D. (2010). Planning for effective learning. In C.S. Chai, & Q. Wang, ICT: For self-directed and collaborative learning (pp.81-106).Singapore: Pearson.
Wong, P., Divaharan, S. & Wettasinghe, M. (2010). Managing ICT-mediated learning environment. In C.S. Chai, & Q. Wang, ICT: For self-directed and collaborative learning (pp.81-106).Singapore: Pearson.
Engaging ICT Practices for Teachers: Classroom 3. Retrieved from http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edumall/tl/it_integration/engaging_it_practices/3changes.htm
Engaging ICT Practices for Teachers: Classroom 3. Retrieved from http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edumall/tl/it_integration/engaging_it_practices/3peers.htm
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250 words Summary
Friday, August 28, 2009
250 word summary on Scenario 2, Activity C
During her E-learning session, Mrs Xing encountered some integration problems. First of all, one of her students surfed pornographic websites and was caught red-handed by his/her parents. Worse, the student simply used Mrs Xing’s E-learning lesson as an excuse. This problem arises because Mrs Xing might have overlooked the way she conducted her E-learning session. Her students might have become too familiarised with the software used for her ICT lessons. In addition, she used the same ICT concept for her E-learning session. Her students could have felt that the E-learning session was no different from the countless ICT lessons that she conducted. Hence meaningful learning has not been achieved. They students already know what is to be done. They are able to finish the work too soon and this leaves for a lot of free time for her students. Not knowing what else to do, this students of hers surfed the inappropriate websites. It could have been done either intentionally or unintentionally.
Secondly, Mrs Xing failed to pre-empt what could have gone wrong during the E-learning session. This problem could have been avoided if she had been wise enough to consider any possible mishaps or unwanted situation and be prepared with other feasible plans to fall on.
Thirdly, the Learning Management System is a little flawed because there are no guidelines on plagiarism. Mrs Xing failed to address the issue prior to the E-learning session. Therefore, they freely copied the content they found on the websites given to them.
Lastly, parents could give integration problems as well. The students may face more problems at home if their parents are not able to help them during their E-learning session if they need to. They might not be able to complete their assignment at home and this defeats the purpose of having the E-learning session.
Reflection
The goal of this E-learning session is to incorporate SDL and CL so at the end of the session, I may identify and articulate problems that hinder teaching and learning. I felt that somehow I have achieved my learning goals. Through this E-learning session, I had to be aware of what is SDL and CL. Not only that, I need to incorporate both styles of learning during my ‘exploration stage’ to gather the relevant information so that I can produce a summary of the activity that I’m working on.
In order to achieve that, I need to read up on SDL and CL. I also need to remember what I’ve learned in the previous session and apply it to my E-learning. SDL happens when I had to choose the activity I’m interested, understand what is required of me for that activity and searched for information related to the topic. Hence, I’m responsible for everything.
To a certain extent, I felt that my learning strategy is effective. I gathered my own information first, post in on the blog and waited for the rest to comment on it. However, I failed to capitalise on other sources of information to substantiate some of the points made in my summary.
The group process in a way, did support my group’s learning. We posted our findings on the blog and made comments on our group members’ postings. Everyone is able to see all the comments made and some of the ideas there are actually build-ups from the previous ones. It enables my group members to ‘explore’ other ideas that are not there and critique each other’s work positively. However, I noticed that the comments made are active for some blog postings only, not all. This is something we could have worked on.
During her E-learning session, Mrs Xing encountered some integration problems. First of all, one of her students surfed pornographic websites and was caught red-handed by his/her parents. Worse, the student simply used Mrs Xing’s E-learning lesson as an excuse. This problem arises because Mrs Xing might have overlooked the way she conducted her E-learning session. Her students might have become too familiarised with the software used for her ICT lessons. In addition, she used the same ICT concept for her E-learning session. Her students could have felt that the E-learning session was no different from the countless ICT lessons that she conducted. Hence meaningful learning has not been achieved. They students already know what is to be done. They are able to finish the work too soon and this leaves for a lot of free time for her students. Not knowing what else to do, this students of hers surfed the inappropriate websites. It could have been done either intentionally or unintentionally.
Secondly, Mrs Xing failed to pre-empt what could have gone wrong during the E-learning session. This problem could have been avoided if she had been wise enough to consider any possible mishaps or unwanted situation and be prepared with other feasible plans to fall on.
Thirdly, the Learning Management System is a little flawed because there are no guidelines on plagiarism. Mrs Xing failed to address the issue prior to the E-learning session. Therefore, they freely copied the content they found on the websites given to them.
Lastly, parents could give integration problems as well. The students may face more problems at home if their parents are not able to help them during their E-learning session if they need to. They might not be able to complete their assignment at home and this defeats the purpose of having the E-learning session.
Reflection
The goal of this E-learning session is to incorporate SDL and CL so at the end of the session, I may identify and articulate problems that hinder teaching and learning. I felt that somehow I have achieved my learning goals. Through this E-learning session, I had to be aware of what is SDL and CL. Not only that, I need to incorporate both styles of learning during my ‘exploration stage’ to gather the relevant information so that I can produce a summary of the activity that I’m working on.
In order to achieve that, I need to read up on SDL and CL. I also need to remember what I’ve learned in the previous session and apply it to my E-learning. SDL happens when I had to choose the activity I’m interested, understand what is required of me for that activity and searched for information related to the topic. Hence, I’m responsible for everything.
To a certain extent, I felt that my learning strategy is effective. I gathered my own information first, post in on the blog and waited for the rest to comment on it. However, I failed to capitalise on other sources of information to substantiate some of the points made in my summary.
The group process in a way, did support my group’s learning. We posted our findings on the blog and made comments on our group members’ postings. Everyone is able to see all the comments made and some of the ideas there are actually build-ups from the previous ones. It enables my group members to ‘explore’ other ideas that are not there and critique each other’s work positively. However, I noticed that the comments made are active for some blog postings only, not all. This is something we could have worked on.
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