21st Century Pedagogy

 

Online learning is ideal for engaging students in higher order thinking skills, if prepared and guided appropriately, as there are many tools available for students to engage in collaboration, sharing, publishing. thinking, creativity and design. 

The above diagram illustrates the retention rate for students based on a variety of teaching strategies. The retention rate for information given during a lecture averages 5% - whereas the retention rate when students are actively involved in discussing, doing, using and teaching.

The diagram below attempts to describe all the components of 21st century pedagogy. Very few, if any, of these strategies are static. All require some level of interactivity, communication or reflection. As a teacher, this has significant implications for how we teach the young people in our classes. 

ACTIVITY FOUR: have a look at each of the diagrams provided and reflect on their implications for teaching, planning for the classroom and what types of strategies need to be regularly incorporated into all lessons. In your blog comment for this post make a note of some of them implications you can think of for you and your lesson planning.

WELCOME ... to my little corner of cyber-space!!!

This blog is a professional learning place, primarily for the staff of Ingleburn High School.


It is not a space for my personal venting, reflections and sharing about my life (I have a personal blog for my need to rave on about myself!!!)


This blog is a place for me to collate, collect, share and publish links, resources, information and news that may be of interest to staff. 


The nature of a blog is that it is meant to be interactive. The blogger shares and the readers comment and engage in dialogue with each other and with the author of the blog.


There is a comment button at the bottom of the post - click that - enter the relevant details and post ... 


Blogging with students - or with colleagues - is an interactive activity - so comments are essential when considering the value of a blog. 


Comments can be a simple statement, they can start a debate about the topic, they can include links for additional, related online information .


These make the experience dynamic and fluid.


When using blogs with students imagine the potential - the literacy requirements for accessing and utilising a blog; reading, writing, thinking, anaylsis, ICT skills, synthesis etc ...  


ACTIVITY ONE for our SDD session, please leave a comment on this post - introducing yourself.