New age classrooms:

what do these look like and who has the power? or what role do teachers play?

Today’s Classroom

• “Educators should move from teacher centred learning to student centered learning, from isolated work to collaborative work and from factual, knowledge based instruction to critical thinking and informed decision making the high tech classroom should be more interaactive and encourage active, exploratory, inquiry based learning” (David Gordon ).

Traditional Teaching Method

• Philosophical Foundation: Objectivism

• View of Knowledge: Knowledge exists outside the human mind; learning is transmission of knowledge from teacher to students.

• Learning Theories: Behavioral theories, information-processing theories.

Traditional Teaching Method

• Use of ICT: Direct instruction.

• Examples: Instructional video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM

Intelligent Tutorial System:http://cs.gmu.edu/~epopovic/NasaTutorial/tutorial.html

Meaningful Learning

• “Primary goal of education at all levels should be to engage students in meaningful learning, which occurs when students are actively making meaning.” (Jonassen, D., Peck, K., & Wilson, B, 1999)

• Characteristics of Meaningful learning:

- Active

-Intentional

- Constructive

- Authentic

-Cooperative

Non-Traditional Methods

• Philosophical Foundation: Mostly constructivism.

• View of Knowledge: Knowledge is constructed not transmitted.

• Learning Theories: Social constructivism (Dewey), Scaffolding (Vygotsky), ……

Active Learning

• What is Active Learning?

• Samples of using ICT:

PBL

• What is Problem-Based Learning?

• Samples of using ICT:

COP

• What is Community of Practice?

• Samples of using ICT:

Discovery Learning

• What is Discovery Learning?

• Samples of using ICT:

Cooperative & Collaborative Learning

• What is Cooperative Learning and Collaborative Learning?

• Samples of using ICT:

Traditional Method VS Constructivism

Pros Cons

Traditional Method

Non-Traditional Methods (Constructivism)

traditional classroom vs new age classroomblackboard & chalk interactive whiteboardstextbooks & journals internet etcindividual tables and chairs group tablestests etc creation of products ?teacher transmit knowledge teachers and students learning togetherindividualism collaborationpen and paper laptops3rs - reading riting and rithmetic wide variety of interest based topics

The Power of You

• What would you choose for your own teaching?

• How would you use ICT to benefit your teaching and assist students learning?

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Web 2.0 Resources

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How have recent theories of learning influenced new age classrooms

eg multiple intelligences - using different technologies to support

different learning styles,"school has long priveleged one or two

forms of human intelligence - those involveing language and logic while ignoring the other powerful ways in which we can come to

know the world" (Gardener 2000)- constructivism- communities of learners/practices- problem based learning

we will need to also discuss how it is not the technology as such that changes the way we learn but how it is being used by teachers in the

new age classroomeg students need to be taught to filter and critically engage with what

they read etc from mutimedia, to learn how to engage in the constructive collaborationthere are many more examples, maybe we

should do a slide on what teachers need to do to make the technology they are using the most effective for student learning?