I had been looking for ways to keep students safe when using the internet when I found this video clip on a peers blog. I love this Lisa, so I hope you don't mind me using this too.
My journey in education has taught me many things but one thing that keeps jumping up and down like a noisy tiger
(with arms in the air screaming ...Look at me!! Look at me!! )...
I have over the past three years worked with many of my peers as we strive for understanding, brilliant assignments and of course ...high grades. I can honestly say that I have never come away from a group assignment without knowledge that I may not have had if I worked by myself.
I have worked with Lisa Rudd in many group assignments and we compliment each other beautifully...she is often the academic brain and I am the often the creative and imaginative one. Occasionally we exchange roles and surprise each other and ourselves. (Did I just do that??)
The best learning is usually not done alone and this goes for both students and teacher. Greater knowledge is found when it is shared and explored by more than one brain.
In this e Learning course Lisa and I bounce ideas around all the time. It is especially wonderful to have someone who you can rely on to give both warm AND cool feedback in every learning situation and she has been there to provide this for me as I do for her.
So I have added this video, that Lisa found, eagerly on my blog just as she did when she viewed a YouTube clip I had discovered. How wonderful to not have to be the discoverer of all things great and wonderful!
What I am trying to say in a very long winded way is this.... I believe the beauty of Blogs and wikis, YouTube and Pod-castes consists of the ability to share and find information!
We 'scream' in words on a Blog.... Look at the great stuff I found!
Even Facebook, as annoying and as shallow as it can sometimes be,...is a great place to share information...stuff that you may never have discovered. (Yes even those crazy cat videos that make you either cringe or laugh depending on the mood you are in).
Digital technology opens the world of information for any student (young or old like me)... this is the true beauty of the internet and it is so much easier than searching through book after book.
Let's Google it!... has become one of my catch phrases....
and...I get so excited when I find what I am looking for!!!
Yes, I usually go on a crazy goose-chase ...as I search for information, but after a while....I eventually find what I am looking for......................
I...like Dora the explorer...find friends to help me....
"I wonder if Lisa or one of my peers has found something which will help my understanding"?
This is a good chunk of what this course may be about...
Teaching us how... to teach children... how to source information, share ideas and knowledge and create fantastic digital tools/sites/blogs...etc etc... in order to provide teachers proof of understanding. (Wow!! They have got it!)
In the world of teachers, we need not ever be alone...and we shouldn't be.
The schools that I have had the privilege of being a part of, have demonstrated both collaborative learning and teaching.
Teachers share knowledge and ideas, lessons and tools within the immediate school and the internet has provided a limitless bank of engaging resources that can be accessed at the press of a button.
Why not create and share as many of these as possible...the children's learning can only be improved because of it.
Various learning styles and teaching styles can be catered for with the use of such a varied range of I CT's.
The internet is great...mostly...
Which brings me back to the start of this posting...internet safety.
The faster the world progresses, the more students will need education provided with digital resources and within the internet circle therefore let us, as teachers, make this circle a protected one where students are safe to discover, explore and ultimately learn!
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