Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Reflection Day 3 - Collaborate Sites

I agree with the the discussion we have had today around creativity and the positive effects it has on the students learning. This quote "Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results." - John Dewey, is a quote to me that falls into one of my goals I have for teaching which is to make my teaching as practical as I can and as engaging as I can because when students are able to create in the learning they have a higher chance at succeeding as they are able to talk about what they are learning and grow in their student agency.


Allowing students the opportunities to create and share the learning they have worked so hard to obtain is really important because it gives the something to be proud of, and have a sense of accomplishment. It is setting them up for future learning because they are realising their own capabilities and give them a chance to rewind on that learning later on.

The purpose is delivering a communication directly to another person.This can be done using multiple modes, these can be things such as smoke signals, letter, email, text, snapchat, facebook are just a few that come to mind. All of these work however depending on the person/children who are using them depends on the one that will be more successful. Some are more efficient, some get the message across in more depth, and some get the message across more quickly. The recipient may have preferred modes for example your grandparents might prefer a letter or facetime, and refuse Snapchat, where as students these days would prefer a text or snapchat.



If we want learners to be creative then we have to model that as well. With out the behavioural engagement then it is rather difficult to get that cognitive engagement. So we need to be thinking about how to get them engaged first so they want to take a deep dive and further learn about the topic. Need to present learning in a variety of ways such as videos, text, pictures, digital so you can accompany all learners.


Discussed colour picker eyedropper which is a google extension that you can add to your chrome then when working with images you can use this to get the unique code for each colour to then copy and past into the text/fill image colour button on google docs/drawings etc.
 We were taking through the process of how to create a site but I have already got the knowledge around this as I created my site at the start of the term for my class site. So it was a time where I could practise the skills I had already learnt and helped others make theirs. I did however use the time to create a cyber smart activity page to add to my already made class site.