Last CLass

Available on Zoom recording will be posted here after class

Zoom Link for today https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4356199256

Dec 13 Class Recording

Final trouble shooting and coaching session

Book an appointment for assessment review, NO grade estimates given outside a Zoom session that you host and to which you invite me. 

Be sure all of your activities are complete, clearly displayed on your blog pages and all of the artifacts are visible to me from the respective Cross-column tabs. 

Your portfolio should have 7 Pages with a tab each for:

1. Your paper
2. Your TPACK presentation
3. Your Mindmeister concept map of your lesson plans
4. Video lesson
5. Podcast lesson
6. Map lesson
7. Your Google Forms self-correcting, teaching quiz

Grades will be submitted one week after final class Dec 20. If you want or need an extension make arrangements with me before then. 

Once your grade has been assessed you can delete this blog if you wish. On the dashboard go to Settings>Manage Blog> Remove your blog.

Reminder: BU Course Assessment was sent to your email. 

Comprehensive final review

Dec 11 Class recording

 Walk through of expectations for all assigned work.

Zoom Link for today https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4356199256

Make sure all of your creations are visible to me. Set videos to public, make sure I can hear your presentation. 

    Zotero annotated bibliography. 

Hossain, A., Kong, Y., & Malik, A. (2023). Remote learning during COVID-19 and transformative learning theory: Tendency towards Quadruple Helix model for future post-secondary education in Indigenous contexts. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 12(1), 76. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13731-023-00341-9

ICT as effort amplification. 

    Even if you  are teaching in a f2f setting you will find that tech can expand your possibilities. Prepare a lesson for advanced students while you are helping strugglers. 

Your TPACK framework can guide you  forward

• metacognitive processes
• expected to teach others
• must have advanced capacity yourself

Techno-optimism, vs techno skepticism. 

• Avoid FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt are the basis of most marketing) 
• commit to developing your capacity for critical thinking. 
• Recognize Heuristics and avoid cognitive biases
• Pass it on to your students

Hybrid Education and Final classes

Class will be available on Zoom for the last 3 classes and a recording will be posted here.

Dec 6 class recording

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4356199256

All Manitoba teachers should be prepared to use ICT to teach. 

Manitoba K-12 Online and Hybrid Resources

• Blended Learning
• Remote Learning
• Web Based Courses

Using Zoom.

• Setting up account
• Free Account
• Hosting a meeting
• Security
• Password
• Waiting Room
• Sharing Screen
• On screen tools
• Participant management

The last two classes next week will mostly review, troubleshooting and coaching. Attend in person or by Zoom for a practical and personal experience of hybrid teaching and learning. 

If you attend remotely make your last two blog posts about your independent work on your activities and post any questions you  may have and I will respond in the comments. 

For the assessment I will post a timetable of my availability. The days I have available are Dec 18 and 20. 

Pick a time slot and send me a link to your Zoom session.  You can present your screen and walk me through the work you have done on your blog. I should be able to give you a pretty good idea of your final grade at that time.

 If you need any extensions we can make arrangements at that time. 

Video Editing

Clip Champ

•     With Audacity

CapCut

Trouble shooting strategies

The essence of Problem Based Learning theory. 

Review of TPACK

How have your understandings of technology, pedagogy and content area circles changed since we first started this class?

Self Teaching Tests and Introducing VIdeo

Start a New Blog Post

Two birds with one stone::

Watch this YouTube on Creating a Self-Teaching Test. 

Video Tutorial created with ScreenCastify

• ScreenPal
• Techsmith Capture
• iVcam

Combine Google Slides and ScreenCastify for your TPACK presentation 

Connecting to a YouTube account.

Most of the video editing platforms allow you to upload to YouTube. 

To do this for the first time you need to open your  the YouTube application in your class account and create a channel in that account. All the videos you create will be found in the channels that you set up. 

Once you upload a video to your YouTube channel you can edit some of the features but most importantly you can embed your YouTube video where ever you need with all the classroom advantages of embedded videos. 

Podcasting Continued

 Start a New Post for Today 

Recap of Audacity

More hosting/sharing services/sites

• Internet Archive
• Spotify for Podcasters ( formerly Anchor)

Theory for the Day

There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Kurt Lewin

Another analytical lens to try out. All practitioners are also researchers, formal and otherwise. 

Most teachers engage in action research which can have formal and informal aspects as well. 

A good theory:

• a set of coherent and logically consistent statements
• explains an observed pattern of behavior 
• allows for prediction of future behavior
• generalizable across contexts, settings, populations
• accommodates the introduction of new data
• testable and supported by evidence
• academic testing of theories is formal and systematic
• falsifiable
• parsimonious- fewest assumptions-Occam's Razor

    Montessori Method

•     supporting theory
• child centered approach
• individualized
• constructivist
• children are born with the desire to learn and explore the world around them. They don’t have to be forced to learn or even taught how to learn. They already know!
• Holistic
• Doesn't focus so much on discrete knowledge or skills
• focused on equipping people for life time learning
• assumes people are independent, self-motivated disciplined, curious and adaptable

The big challenge to all learning theories is how have they responded to the introduction of new data. 

• Digital Technology in the Montessori Classroom

Intro to Podcasting

 Podcasting

Using audio in education has been around forever from "What sound does the cow make" for the youngest learners to the most sophisticated ( and some unsophisticated) podcasts, interactive and otherwise. 

The process of creating a podcast can be very simple but limited only by imagination and a willingness to explore. 

A few simple steps, 

1. Create an audio file
2. Edit the audio file (maybe optional if you can do it all in one take)
3. Host the file  on a web server (with a player)
4. Distribute the podcast 
5. Repeat for episodic podcasts. 

Create audio files

• Vocaroo
• Audacity

Hosting

• SoundCloud
• Internet Archive

Theory 

Mayer's  Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. 

• There are two separate channels (auditory and visual) for processing information (sometimes referred to as Dual-Coding theory);
• Each channel has a limited (finite) capacity (similar to Sweller’s notion of Cognitive Load)
• Learning is an active process of filtering, selecting, organizing, and integrating information based upon prior knowledge.

Humans can only process a finite amount of information in a channel at a time, and they make sense of incoming information by actively creating mental representations.   Mayer also discusses the role of three memory stores: sensory (which receives stimuli and stores it for a very short time), working (where we actively process information to create mental constructs (or ‘schema’), and long-term (the repository of all things learned).  Mayer’s cognitive theory of multimedia learning presents the idea that the brain does not interpret a multimedia presentation of words, pictures, and auditory information in a mutually exclusive fashion; rather, these elements are selected and organized dynamically to produce logical mental constructs. Furthermore, Mayer underscores the importance of learning (based upon the testing of content and demonstrating the successful transfer of knowledge) when new information is integrated with prior knowledge.

Design principles including providing coherent verbal, pictorial information, guiding the learners to select relevant words and images, and reducing the load for a single processing channel etc. can be entailed from this theory[3][4].

Argyris and Schon. Theory in Action

• Espoused theory
• Theory in use
• Congruence and cognitive dissonance

Framework for analysis

Integral to TPACK framework

Used to understand individual and organizational learning. 

   Graziano, K. J., Herring, M. C., Carpenter, J. P., Smaldino, S., & Finsness, E. S. (2017). A TPACK diagnostic tool for teacher education leaders. TechTrends, 61(4), 372–379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-017-0171-7 

    Thorvaldsen, S., & Madsen, S. S. (2020). Perspectives on the tensions in teaching with technology in Norwegian teacher education analysed using Argyris and Schön’s theory of action. Education and Information Technologies, 25(6), 5281–5299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10221-4