7.6 MANAGING TECHNOLOGY RICH LEARNING SPACES

7.5 Bring Your Own Device Odyssey.

Throughout the session we engaged on the impact of having devices in class, when each learner decides to bring a device individually, versus the potential of learning using different learning configurations of devices.
Todays learners have dfferent devices. We also looked at how teachers can manage them in their classrooms.

The interesting part was editing and contributing in the wiki. I was grouped in the group of "Any device will do" I observed the group was in agreement that at the start any device can work but there was need to a common standard to help the facilitators.
Many Questions were raised about individual devices and their use in schools. But it only depends on how innovative the teacher can be so that the learners love using their own devices to do the right thing.
i submit.

7.4.1 Space Innovation

     The video attempts to explain space innovation, what the heads of centers ought to do to improve their learning spaces.
In this esson i have learnt how to work in construction groups to come up with action on space based learning mechanisms.
the most impressive part of this lesson was taking an audio podcast  with Audacity. it allowed me to edit very well.
i feel now am abe to work well with the app and movie maker as well. Am able to work better with groups and interprete ones explanations and arguments.
I will improve on my role in the construction group so that i can be more visible and also try to practice on how can one reach on consensus with other group members.
It all works well with consensus and podcast making.

7.3.4 Old things and New ways

In most cases, school administrators match into classrooms and labs to look at how the learners and teachers use ICT.  But because they are not trained to do so are compelled to lies.

The administrators find learners on laptops but what they are doing there cant be categorized in learning. Most teachers still scan 2D drawings and project them on beamers for learners to draw. It is just using technology to display a picture which has only limited interpretation and this is killing creativity in our classes.

1. Is the technology being used “Just because it’s there”?
2. Is the technology allowing the teacher/students to do Old things in Old ways?
3. Is the technology allowing the teacher/students to do Old things in New ways?
4. Is the technology creating new and different learning experiences for the students?

During this lesson i was able to learn that some times i used to run into technology not being very sure how it will help support my teaching content. I have been able to understand that some times technology does not replace the concept for example checking some some thing on the internet can be the same as getting it from encyclopedia in the library however the former attempts to be a new way.
I was impressed by the old things and new ways, where instead of looking at systems ideally we can visit the site. for example instead of talking about the water treatment plant we can visit the site and learn process one by one.

It is in most cases unsatisfying to find that am not yet able to do new ideas the new way because of lack of familiarization with ICTs.
I will try to practice exlplaining new things with new ways since i am always in ICT mediated class.

7.2.4 Reflecting on managing the warm ware

Dear Reader, 

It is always taken  for granted that managing a class is normal activity, which i think is an activity that the teacher must prepare and get acquainted with. 

The tutor, made a group wiki in which each participant was expected to edit, by reorganizing the words, sentences, spelling, tables, and addition of content to make a meaningful document giving insights in how to manage the challenges of integrating technology in learning spaces. 

Yet this is wiki space is another  learning space, each member was able to do any kind of job. i was able to make some changes though it was not easy to track them because every one accessed and reorganized it just as i thought was reorganizing others.

It became too hard for me to know where to proceed from because translating someones opinion to the inquiry that the tutor had put was not easy. Each ones understanding of the concept could not relate easily. 

I have learnt that  the learners may not easily agree on issues given such a learning space. much as it may be correct that disagreement improves understanding, but it may be time consuming most especially if some student who has not made thorough research just jumps into the wiki to change everything.

I also observed that the comments could not be answered easily because each one tried to  limit collaboration, and understanding to the original ways how they perceived.

I noted that the tutor MAY BE INTENTIONALLY left us and  kept quiet which at the end each one quit the wiki with out any way forward  made. Like i demonstrated in the Video, i learnt that  if the teacher does not control the space, then it will not yield result.  

I also observed that if the wiki space does not probe personal learning, some "copy and paste" appears which distorts the quality of the document.

Ahaa, i can now manage the wiki space, i am now able to trace the changes, i can now guide the learners on how to collaborate using the wiki space.

I will try as much as possible to learn much about how wiki space can be used adequately to make a good research paper for a group of learners.

7.2 Reflection on Managing Technology enriched spaces

cases for spaces by gilbert Niwamanya