Saturday 20 December 2014
Saturday 13 December 2014
reflection on 1.6 "feeding the need"
In order to have continuous
professional growth for individuals and groups, it is important to think
critically about those issues that impact on practice, positively or otherwise,
and make strategies for improvement.
In
the lesson of “feeding the need”, we were considering the technology integration professional
development needs at our workplace and evaluating our own collection
of resources, setting strategies and or plans, how we can utmost use the
information we have so far curated in meeting the needs of our colleagues at
the workplace.
I
have learnt new ideas and the following deserve mention.
The
impact of CCTI course on my profession development. Most of the colleagues do
lack the skills I have so far, and also commend that CCTI has added me value in
terms of platforms that are educational like you tube, curation sites and
others, the application and relevancy of these platforms has been a mystery and
could not be felt until now.
There
are a lot of skills missing in teachers most especially learning to evaluate a
good educational site from which to obtain up-to-date information and
reference.
In
future it will be so much imperative to further address the needs either as a
mother ministry of Education or through empowering us who have benefited from
this course. Here we that have benefited from this course are expected to have
acquired both hard and soft skills, social, collaborative and effective management
of a professional learning development using ICT.
I
have much hope that planning sessions for staff in collaboration with institute
administrators can help pave the way forward. The analysis shows that most of
the staff are not “computer illiterate” but the basics they possess cannot make
them suite the interactive, social and collaborative class we are advocating
for. Project based learning, learner centered instruction and amalgamation of
“live score” of the student-teacher and teacher-student cycle, as emphasized by
most organizations like UNESCO, BTC and learners are not at the receiving end but
will need an environment where they become facilitators of their own learning.
I
have believed further in the CCTI course because so far, much has been achieved
and very much relevant to my engineering trade.
Managers
of institutions will need to make schedules as refresher oriented to enable the
staff update their knowledge, skills because negative attitude is suppressed by certain,
concrete, realistic, and very positive change subjected to an individual. They
need to upgrade on basic computer Microsoft applications so that they are used
to all ICT equipment and internet applications.
I
have found out that my sites and information that I have gathered in all my
platforms will be very vital in preparing, sharing, facilitating while
addressing the needs of my colleagues.
These
include
A full
introduction to You tube Russell stannard (teacher training videos)(2014)
http://edublogs.org/ -Opening an
account with edublog
Educational
Technology and mobile learning (a resource of educational web tools and mobile
applications for teachers and educators)
14 great
face book groups every teacher should know about.
How to use twitter to grow your Professional Learning Net work (PLN)-Betty Ray-director of programming and
innovation @ Edutopia
UCD teaching and learning /resources (paul.surgenor@ucd.ie)
Fundamentals of teacher education development-
by Pai Obanya (UNESCO )
International
Institute for Capacity Building in Africa
-Gender main
streaming in teacher education policy
(UNESCO-IICBA,
2012)
-www.tessafrica.net teaching practice supervisors tool kit
-collaborative writing by Emily Viggiano
-cooperative learning by Barbara Gross Davis,
tools for teaching.
-ICT –enhanced teacher development model by
Temechegn Engida
Teacher’s guide to project based
learning www.hightechhigh.org
(Professor Tim Brighouse ex-Chief Advisor to London Schools)
Recapitulating
the main ideas of this presentation, I have observed and read though most of
the documentation, and have experienced a transition in attitude towards use of
social medium, and ICT tools and most references guiding us towards the UNESCO
ICT policy. At this particular time, it makes real sense to plan to put to
action using the necessary reference information, videos, websites, blogs and
people of outstanding integrity in this approach. I believe my colleagues will
find this approach so much challenging and direct to the point in curbing down
the challenges that accrue in the preparation and try to impede delivery of classroom and
workshop sessions.
I
submit
Niwamanya
Gilbert
Instructor
Nakawa VTI
P.O.Box.
20121, Kampala-Uganda- East Africa
Saturday 6 December 2014
Tuesday 2 December 2014
REFLECTION 1.5 'TRAWLING THE NET'
Static
websites have their content rarely updated, and their pages may consist of
contacts, organization history, and mission statement among others.
Whereas
blogs are regularly updated and the content there in is date specific.
It
is interesting to note that I have observed that most of the websites have now
integrated blogs so that the some content will be regularly updated. So one
notes that a blog is more flexible and much easier to setup and thus makes them
dynamic.
Again
wiki space is more challenging, the review and editing of the page is done by
anybody in the group and can be
re-edited every time, the challenge will be on the consensus of the knowledge of individuals about the topic and objectives.
I
wish to under list the criteria for evaluating educational sites.
1.
Check, scan and understand the URL of the site,
in here one has to check for domain name, and its relevance to the content
searched. I have realized that sites that have “edu” in their URL are
experienced educational sites and very academic.
For
example,
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/
2.
A teacher has to check on the “philosophy,
background and “about us “ of the site, there one can get the quick glimpse of
what he or she should expect.
For example
3.
Also the teacher can also trace for the
indicators of quality information, like some added links and their validity.
4.
Also one can directly go to the purpose of the
site. Is it educational or commercial…
5.
And the coverage of the content is sufficient.
In summary;
I have been empowered
by this lesson on the following ideas.
Am now able to evaluate a site, fast enough to know what it is
talking about by scanning the URL, the mission statement and the location.
I have been exposed to many links so much useful for my
profession as references.
More so, I have been empowered to seek and curate the content
information for future use for my trainees.
My way is now clear and I have gotten the momentum to a clear
path to my professional learning net work.
I appreciate the team work exhibited by my course group
members in the wiki, and it is so challenging to find answers. But sharing is
so much caring…
Such
contributions end up starting new knowledge and generate the debate so much
more
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