2010-07-15

Learning benefits between students and the teacher.

Teachers planning ICT into their lessons knowingly expose students to broaden their minds and use higher order thinking. The way in which teachers can do this is by planning co-operative learning into the lesson plan. Krause, et. al., defines co-operative learning as allocating a selected group of student’s assigned individual tasks and then collating all the information into a presentation or project format to share with others (2010, page ). If you find that you have a disruptive students the direction of co-operative or group learning using Pod-casting can help as it can provide students with an inclusive learning environment where the disruptive student might become engaged with an activity involving either, interviewing, script writing or even expressing themselves in the set design and producing side of the project.

Anxiety can play a big part of students being difficult or even as a barrier for students being able to learn. Chan, A., Mark, J., Lee, W. suggest that one way to eliminate the symptoms of anxiety is to have a blog or Wiki. This technology source is where the students can pre-read class text in the form of pod-casts, audio and visual. The benefit of using a Podcast is also great if students are absent for periods of time with either an illness or on vacation (2005, page 60).


Reference list

Krause, K., Bochner, S., Duchesne, S., & McMaugh, A. (2010) Educational psychology for learning & teaching (3rd ed.). South Melbourne, Australia: Cengage Learning Australia.

Chan, A., Mark, J., Lee, W. (2005) AN MP3 A DAY KEEPS THE WORRIES AWAY:
Exploring the use of podcasting to address preconceptions and
alleviate pre-class anxiety amongst undergraduate information
technology students. Charles Sturt University student experience conference 2005. Retrieved July 11, 2010, from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.115.1023

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