Wiki Activities
In Week 1 and 2 we completed activities using Wikis, before this I had briefly experenced Wikis and was really nervous about using it. While participating in these activities I felt really good using them. In the week 1 activity we looked at Vygotsky's Theories of Learning using the PMI Scaffolding, we found many interestings and many positives. I found that Vygotsky's way of perceiving human nature's way of learning is very much based on the environment they are in and what influences are around them. I could not agree with this more. Especially in this class I have learnt more about what to do and how to do it from the people around me then I could have ever learnt if all this information was written down and I had to spend hours reading it. I was very happy using the PMI chart as I have used it so many times. I was however surprised to find that it was really hard to find a minus on the theories. This is not to say that there are not any cons to the theories I just was not able to find any that stood out to me as being wrong or bad. I was very impressed on how our group managed to fill out the chart and am very happy with they information I have gained from using it. The PMI chart as a scaffolding tool in classrooms is very engaging way for students to look at a situation and allow them to use the facts and information they have in front of them to make a decision on whether what they are looking at is a good thing or a bad things. Students may do this when looking at situations such as when anaylising texts or observing situations. I will say that the PMI chart is one of my most used scaffolding tools.
In Week 1 and 2 we completed activities using Wikis, before this I had briefly experenced Wikis and was really nervous about using it. While participating in these activities I felt really good using them. In the week 1 activity we looked at Vygotsky's Theories of Learning using the PMI Scaffolding, we found many interestings and many positives. I found that Vygotsky's way of perceiving human nature's way of learning is very much based on the environment they are in and what influences are around them. I could not agree with this more. Especially in this class I have learnt more about what to do and how to do it from the people around me then I could have ever learnt if all this information was written down and I had to spend hours reading it. I was very happy using the PMI chart as I have used it so many times. I was however surprised to find that it was really hard to find a minus on the theories. This is not to say that there are not any cons to the theories I just was not able to find any that stood out to me as being wrong or bad. I was very impressed on how our group managed to fill out the chart and am very happy with they information I have gained from using it. The PMI chart as a scaffolding tool in classrooms is very engaging way for students to look at a situation and allow them to use the facts and information they have in front of them to make a decision on whether what they are looking at is a good thing or a bad things. Students may do this when looking at situations such as when anaylising texts or observing situations. I will say that the PMI chart is one of my most used scaffolding tools.
In the week 2 activity we again added into the Wiki but this week we looked at the topic using Mobile Phones in the classroom. We edited the wiki using De Bono Hats as the scaffolding. The De Bono Hats are simply a method of thinking that allow the students to think in a completely different way about a situation or topic and help them build up the skills and tools that they can apply in almost any classroom activity or assessment. I really enjoy using the hats in the classroom because the students always become really excited. The hats are also a great way to support higher order thinking especially if there are props! My Group was doing the red hat, which is the feeling/intuitive. We found we were doing very well and working very well in our group!
While doing the wiki we learnt that when editing one page all at the same time we all ended up loosing our work and this was because we were not refreshing our page before we started editing. It was very frustrating as we thought we had to do it all again but then we found a way to get some of it back and we all had a laugh over it. We then decided it was best if each group had their own page to edit on that way we would all be able to work on it without having that chance of loosing our work. This is most probably what I would end up doing in the classroom at one point and having all the students loose their work would have been terrible so I am happy that I learnt that today instead of one day in my classroom.
Here is the link so you can visit our Wiki!
Here is the link so you can visit our Wiki!
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