Productive Pedagogy, Wiki, and TPACK – sounding like a real ICT student now...

This blogging thing is very different to the report writing that I am used to, but alas I think I am getting the hang of it! And given the very welcomed comments on my first blog I am going to try and change the style of narrative – rather than provide a straight forward summary of the each weeks topics, I am going to try and focus on providing an overview how I as a teacher feel about the concepts and ideas and how I would go about incorporating them into by teaching approach.

Learning sequence against the productive pedagogy:

So this week I had a go at preparing a learning sequence against the productive pedagogy. See below (the hardest part for me this week was to learn how to do a ‘screen shot’ – especially because last week’s attempt failed but hey I’m learning).

 

As you can see I chose the topic ‘human endevour’ which comes from the Australian Curriculum Science KLA for year 3.

The thinking behind this learning sequence is to provide a pedagogy that is teacher established and scaffolded, but importantly allows for student centred content with a great deal of ‘social support’/ interaction between students.  I believe that the learning sequence is a ‘higher order,’ ‘problem based’ activity which also emphasises ‘connectedness to the world’, ‘background knowledge,’ ‘active citizenship,’ and ‘group identity’ understanding. The assessment of understanding not only looks at  content matter but also the students ability to use the ‘Bubbl.us’ program which will then be used as a visual aid for their group presentations to the class.

I also hope that the activity is engaging and that it opens the minds of the students to the affects of the science of human endeavour and innovation and how much of an impact it can have from a local to global scale. 

TPACK 101:

 

 

Technology + Pedagogical + Content + Knowledge

= TPACK

= The process of integrating knowledge of content into our classrooms using technology.

 

 

 

 

 

Wiki discussion on the use of mobile phones in the classroom:

Another week of firsts for me - I commented on my first ever wiki!!!

Having taken part in the discussions I can see how the activity followed a TPACK process  - we did indeed use technology to show understanding of not only the content (which was also relevant to technology), but also our understanding of the use of wiki as a technology. However I feel that the activity could have promoted a more ‘higher order thinking’, ‘problem solving’ process which could have began with the collective discussion on the topic of mobile phones in the classroom, yet then go further to ask learners to maybe create their own TPACK pedagogical framework using the mobile phone as the technology – thus coming up with their own P,C and K.

What would your pedagogical framework look like?