EXAM ANSWERS FOR COURSE 2128

EXAM QUESTIONS- STEFAN MARCAROS (20064107)

Question 1) the components that make up an interesting blog are varied. For starters an interesting blog contains lots of visual and audio stimuli to engage the viewer, people react in a more positively inclined manner if there are things other than text in the blog that actually grab their attention. For example on my course blog I put a music clip and a video slide on so that way I could break up the vast amounts of text that was on it. Another component of an interesting blog is to have lots of colour and a unique background display. The information on the blog should also be interesting and relevant if educational. Hyperlinks are also part of a unique blog. People are curious and love to click on things that lead to another page or an exciting link, which makes hyperlinking an excellent way to make your blog more interesting. To make an interesting blog it also has to reflect what sort of person you are, If your outgoing and loud and are happy then that will most definitely be reflected in your blog. So the more interesting you are the more interesting your blog is. Mind maps and tables are also good as well as they convey messages and ideas in an easy understandable format, while providing the reader with some visual stimuli.

Example 1- Picture

Example 2- Hyperlink

www.myspace.com/nevrospasma



Example 3- Mind Map










Question 2)

Question 3) online learning can be a useful cognitive tool on the road to educating students. It gives students control over what they learn, how they learn and where they learn it from. It also gives the students the skills they need to be able to access information, filter down to the relevant information and then analyse and report on what is left. Students can also work at their own pace which means they don’t feel rushed or pressured to get a vast amount of information in a limited time. Students can, also work together in an online learning situation because they all discuss how to access information, how to edit etc. This is because they all have different skills that they can offer each other. It also gives students the opportunity to teach each other what they have learnt so that way their knowledge is shared amongst each other. This is because of SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM. Students are all helping each other learn. Online learning is also fun and educational so students are combining something they love (ICT) with a task or goal that they have to complete, which makes online learning a very valuable education tool!!!



Question 4) the whole point of our blog was to place information about many theorists on our blog to inform the viewer of what they did and what their theories were. All the information in these blogs are educationally based only and do contain some opinions.

A bit of Piaget Blog

The theory of Piaget was that People develop in different stages and that they move forwards into new levels of thinking. The stages are: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete and finally the abstract.

The way in which my blog represents Piaget’s theory is through the actual blog entries themselves. You can see that from beginning to end my blog style and way of thinking is different as I was moving through Piaget’s final two stages. I go just from reciting theorists theories to actually analysing if their theories are true or false and whether they have any actual meaning in today’s modern society. In other words Piaget’s theory is rife throughout my blog.


Let’s Go Vygotsky

Vygotsky’s theory was that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of students recognising and understanding (cognitive Recognition). A second aspect of Vygotsky's theory is the idea that the potential for development depends upon the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD): a level of development attained when children engage in social behavior. Full development of this development depends upon the person’s social interaction. The range of skill that can be developed with adult guidance or peer collaboration can far surpass anything practiced alone.

This is evident in my blog with the way I posted information on other people’s blogs and they posted information on mine. We shared our knowledge with each other so we all benefited from this social interaction point of view. My blog has many posts from other people.


Getting Glaser

Glaser’s theory was that of people having six basic needs and having those needs fulfilled. The needs are:
Love
Survival
Power
Freedom
Fun
Belonging
My whole blog is set out according to my needs. What I want to put on there. What I want to leave out. Where I want everything to fit in, and if I don’t like it I change it because it doesn’t fit in with or suit MY needs.


Bloom’s Taxing Taxonomy

Benjamin Bloom created this taxonomy for putting abstract questions that we ask students to answer in categories of relevance. The taxonomy provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions, since teachers will characteristically ask questions within particular levels, and if you can determine the levels of questions that will appear on your exams, you will be able to study using appropriate strategies. The taxonomy gives you a pyramid type structure of how students will answer the questions. I. E creatively etc.

Again my whole blog is rife with this theorist’s theory every blog entry is answered on a different part of his taxonomy. I even took a multiple intelligence test which showed me my different response levels.

BOSS Or Lead Teacher????

A Boss Manager vs A Lead Manager
by Dr. Bradley H. Greene

A Boss Manager
1. Judges others
2. Blames people for problems
3. Says, “I am not as bad as a lot of other people”
4. Controls
5. Takes himself and others for granted
6. Covers up mistakes
7. Says, “I only work here”
8. Demands
9. Builds walls
10. Drives his people
11. Depends on authority
12. Inspires fear
13. Says, “I”
14. Gets there on time
15. Fixes blame for the breakdown
16. Knows how it is done
17. Says, “Go”
18. Uses people
19. Sees today
20. Commands
21. Never has enough time
22. Is concerned with things
23. Treats the symptoms
24. Lets his people know where he stands
25. Does things right
26. Works hard to produce
27. Creates fear
28. Takes the credit
29. Seeks first to be understood
30. Has a win-lose approach to situations

A LEAD Manager
1. Accepts others
2. Looks for solutions
3. Says, “I am good but not as good as I can be”
4. Admits mistakes
5. Appreciates himself and others
6. Admits mistakes
7. Does more than his job
8. Asks
9. Builds communication
10. Coaches his people
11. Depends on cooperation
12. Inspires enthusiasm
13. Says,“We”
14. Gets there ahead of time
15. Fixes the breakdown
16. Shows how it is done
17. Says, “Let’s Go”
18. Develops people
19. Looks at today and the future
20. Models
21. Makes time for things that count
22. Is concerned with people
23. Identifies and treats the causes
24. Lets his people know where they stand
25. Does the right thing
26. Works hard to get his people to produce
27. Creates confidence in others
28. Gives the credit to others
29. Seeks first to understand
30. Has a win-win approach to situations

Thanks Mel. this model is off the site below. It is interesting and thanks to Mel Posting it on her blog i had a look and pinched it aswell!! LOL

http://www.wglasser.com/whatislm.htm

Digital Immigrants VS Digital Natives- PrEnsKy

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

#Have Been Educated the Old Fashioned way. IE. Books, Library etc.

#Have no need or see no need for the use of technology in or around education.

#do not believe education should be fun because that's how it was in "THEIR DAY"

#they think differently from the digital natives.

#did not grow up with technology and have no need for instant access, downloading, random web surfing, e-mail etc.

#Have a hard time learning how to use technology. Less adaptable.

DIGITAL NATIVES

* Grew up with technology from as far back as they can remember

* Use net speak, abbreviations etc. eg.
-"www.hungry.com" - Kindergarten student @ Lunch break
-"Every time I go to school I have to power down" - High School student on Digital Immigrant Teachers.
-brb lol lmao k kewliiz @- Examples of net speak.

*Cannot Learn @ a slow step-by-step pace, must be constantly receiving information in interesting creative ways i.e. pictures, movies etc.

*Use the net as their first point of reference rather than a secondary resource.

*Brains are wired differently from those of their predecessors.

*Cannot go backwards in their learning using just books and reading.

*Short Attention spans.


Mark Prensky’s article on Digital natives VS Digital immigrants has been a very interesting read he argues that in today’s modern society Digital Immigrants (people who have not grown up with technology-most teachers at the moment) need to realise that most of the teaching methods they grew up with are no longer a valuable teaching method to use on modern age students (Digital Natives) because they access information fast, they need that quick fix and they rely on technology more than books. They live in a world where the less time something takes and the more information it provides the better it is. Digital Natives have developed a whole new culture that needs to be adapted to if immigrants want to try and teach the natives. Teachers must become more computer savvy and must integrate their teaching methods with the way students learn today-Technology. I agree with Mark Prensky because if Digital immigrants don’t adapt students will switch off and then they will not learn anything; technology is our future and in it lies the future Bill Gates’s of the world>>>>>> “The DIGITAL NATIVES”

VERY ANNOYED Bloom's Taxing Taxonomy

I am very annoyed because half my blogs from February have been deleted............. So the next couple of entries are kind of backdating!!!!!!

BLOOMS TAXonomy

Benjamin Bloom created this taxonomy for putting abstract questions that we ask students to answer in categories of relevance. The taxonomy provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions, since teachers will characteristically ask questions within particular levels, and if you can determine the levels of questions that will appear on your exams, you will be able to study using appropriate strategies.

In 1956 Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. Bloom found that over 95 % of the test questions students encounter require them to think only at the lowest possible level...the recall of information.
Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation.

Education FUN????

Educational games are a great way of getting students to learn the content you would like to teach them in a fun, exciting way that gets them involved and ready to learn more. This is the site for some really good educational games.
http://surfaquarium.com/MI/intelligences.htm

QUEENs of BOHEMIA

Ok here goes I don't Know if this will work. Fingers crossed so lets hope this works yeah.Using music can be a way of grabbing people's attention to your site and can make a website more interesting. It also allows somebody to customise/personalise their blog or website. I personally prefer myspace even though mine has been hacked into at the moment LOL but anyway. Here's to QUEEN.
Cheers

mp3 songs Queen MP3s

WIKI VS BLOG

Wikis' and Blogs are both very useful. A blog allows a person to write about whatever they want, whenever they want without being riddiculed because it is their own, personal opinion. Yet that can also be a problem seeing as though only one person can edit a blog and so... if the information is outdated then noone can correct it. A Wiki depends on lots of people's collaborative efforts to make it work. It can be consatntly changed and updated.

Example Of Podcasts

This is an example of a podcast. It is not educational whatsoever but merely for entertainment purposes. Enjoy "SCHFIFTY-FIVE"

Podcast Killed The Radio Star

There are many differences between podcasts and Radios, the most basic of uses for the podcast is to download information that you can continue to listen to or use over and over again. On a podcast you can also pause, rewind and fast foward. It is like a computer version of a CD Player. You download the podcast off the internet onto your computer then you plug in your ipod or your MP3 and you download it onto the ipod or MP3. Radio is a constant player of information and entertainment that cannot be downloaded or edited, just listened to.

HOW Do We FIND A Podcast??

Anywhere on the internet where a user or Podcaster (person who creates a podcast) advertises it.

SO...... How Do We Make A Podcast??

The content provider begins by making a file (for example, an MP3 audio file) available on the Internet. This is usually done by posting the file on a publicly available webserver; however, BitTorrent trackers also have been used, and it is not technically necessary that the file be publicly accessible. The only requirement is that the file be accessible through some known URL (a general-purpose Internet address). This file is often referred to as one episode of a podcast.

our wiki address http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddjz64dp_0gwkpss

Dreifuss Interesing Note

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
If a child lives with friendliness, he learns the world is a nice place in which to live, to love and be loved.

Hey there guys i just posted this off the Driefuss website and i found it quite interesting because if you think about it.............. its true a child immitates what they know and they know what they hear and see and experience. Please tell me what you all think............

Wiki Contents

This is a contents page from one part of an enormous wiki page. This is needed for all wiki's. Wiki's are an important part of the technology era as they can be updated, chopped and changed or even be deleted by anyone. There is no sole page owner of a wiki, this makes a wiki better than a blog and email because the community maintains it and it is easier to post information rather than email etc etc.

1 Descriptions, definitions, synonyms, organizer terms, types of
2 Application in classrooms and similar settings
3 Evidence of effectiveness
4 Critics and their rationale
5 More Books by Dreikurs
6 Alternative explanations due to diversity considerations
7 Signed "life experiences," testimonies and stories
8 References and other links of interest

The DREADED BOARD OF STUDIES

The whole point of today’s activity was to check out and report on in 1000 words, the most helpful site used by teachers to make their lessons interesting and effective for students so that not only do they learn something but also so teachers know they are teaching the students the right information. This website is feared and loathed by students. The “Dreaded BOARD OF STUDIES”

The programming of the information on the website can be at times helpful with how it categorizes everything and labels it all so the information is relevant to the heading, neat and in order according to subject, level or just parents seeking general information about the course outlines available for their son/s or daughter/s. The home page design is bright and colourful but also very informative and reflects the categorized style mentioned above it has pictures and hyperlinks which take you to the desired section. However the actual style and layout of this site can be a headache and a half and I am not joking the PDF files on Adobe Acrobat can go on for pages and pages ( 6 at least, sometimes more)
And can be more stressful than actually sitting the HSC, I know because I sat it 2 years ago!!! Every second word is also a hyperlink which may have some relevant information but it just regurgitates those few points in a different form each time!!! As mentioned above every second word is a hyperlink, this can be come very irritating and can make any soft, calm person very irate very quickly. Overall all the website contains everything a teacher, parent, student needs to be helpful or successful in the HSC period and so even with all the negatives and headaches that can possibly arise from this website it is worth looking up to guide the students of today into tomorrow.

Just looking through everything the site has to offer in my fields which are THEATRE MAJOR/ ENGLISH MINOR, there is a lot of information to process. It gives you the outcomes for each topic that the teacher must teach to the student so it can be learned/completed and processed and understood by the student in order for them to gain necessary life skills. It contains an Assessment Resource Centre for years 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12 in those subdivided groups and with this function teachers gain the information they need to use assessment to enhance learning in years 7 right through to 12. It builds on the principles of assessment for learning in the Board syllabuses and the advice in subsequent support materials on implementing these principles. It shows how teachers can use assessment to enhance student learning and to make a judgment of student achievement at key points in the learning process. It also provides teachers with previous student’s work as an example of what sort of assessment standard would fit this description for student outcomes. For years 9-12 it also provides information on the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate respectively.

There, as I have probably mentioned many times before, is so much information on this website that I am barely able to make heads or tails of it. There is so much information swimming in my head that if I was a mere scientific calculator I probably would have burned out circuits and my Ink based screen would have cracked and have steam coming out of it. There cannot possibly be one person in the whole of the world that could sit on their computer for one whole day and manage to process and understand every bit of information on this site. It is a site that I personally believe needs to be constantly referred to throughout either your teaching or schooling years. > I’m getting a Migraine as we speak< it is however, all valuable information that can be used over and over again. It’s objectives as a website, as I understand it, is to inform teacher’s of the action they must take to help students to learn valuable and much needed skills later on in life. It is not so much the content that matters but the skill they gain from learning that content that counts.

Networking

Part of this project was to post blogs on other people blog space as such!!

To do this we had to invite and be invited oin turn to join and contribute to someone's blog. This was an activity that was done in class, and in class for a reason. To overcome difficulties easily!

Personally I was absent for the actual tutorial that this was done and as a result the task itself was harder even with the guidance of these wonderful people!! Many of s were new to this blogging and the ability to do something new such as intive authors to our blogs was a lot easier with the authors present to help troubleshoot!

For example people were present at the time to give their emails and confirm their invitation almost instantly. Where as if we had been doing it seperatly at home, we wouldn't haev had this quick acception and would not have known if we had actually done it right!!!

When undertaking the intivaton process, my invitation from a classmate (cough Stefan cough hehe) was continously not coming through. If we had been seperate at home, this may have caused an issue! We would either not have noticed or we would have had to converse through other means to correct it! It turns out it was simply an error in the email address given but even something like that if we were not both present may have been a larger issue to figure out!!!

Working at it simitaniously meant we could all create these fabulous blogs!!!!!

xoxo

Stephen Downes===> Good Educational Blogsite (Apparently)

Stephen Downe's website is an example of a well designed website. Founded in 1995, Stephen's Web is described as a "digital research laboratory for innovation in the use of online media in education." His site is inteded to show people in specific fields how technology can be used to their advantage. This website gives you all the points you need for a good blogsite.....
http://www.downes.ca/about.htm

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE- See How STUPID I Really AM!!!

This is a hyperlink to my characteristics!! How smart am I?? you'll just have to log on and find out. Type in this code to access my intelligence in the code section. rsv7flmk0850

http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/results/results.cfm

ICT and Learning Styles

ICT can be of great benefit to students with different learning styles. "We all learn differently, says John Davitt, but only now with the help of new technology can we begin to work at which style suits us best" ICT gives students the opportunity to work at their own pace within the comfort zone of their own learning environment.

!@#$THE BENEFITS%$#@!

• Accelerated Learning
• New classroom tools to help better education.
• Education becomes high challenge but a low threat environment with command bars that lower stress levels I.E delete, edit, undo etc.
• Makes learning fun.
• Teacher can make interesting and lessons using technology.
• Students can take control of their own learning aswell and they become more confident, responsible and self-reliant when it comes to gathering and processing data.
• Teacher does not have to be constantly disciplining students as they are moostly on task.

However it is not all positive as argued by Derek Wise because if ICT is not incorporated into a new education structure and is just placed in the current system then there could be problems with its effectiveness. "Too often, it has been assumed that ICT will transform learning," "It won't if it is being incorporated into a traditional teaching structure, but its effects are maximised if it goes hand-in-hand with changes in teaching and learning." I believe Ict is important for the future if used in a constructive and educational manner.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1164792,00.html

Networking

Hi guys just thought you should read this...
What would it have been like if this was done at 8pm last night???
Well this could have been an interesting phone conversation, alot of swearing and some laughing about how stupid we are because we can't do it. Then the questions would have come flying 'how did you do that?' 'what does your screen look like?' 'how come mine doesn't look like that?' 'what's wrong with my #$!* *^#$@!* computer?'. This could have been a disaster last night, but because we were all sitting here helping each other we were talking it through. Guys this is SOCIAL INTERATCTION at its best. We are now a community, an online community who would have thought... Communicating in person and with a screen infront of the both of you is so much easier than over the phone, where little, stupid mistakes are easily missed.

networking...not as hard as it seems

ok well we all know how hopeless melissa is with technology..if i had to do this by myself last night it would have been alot harder and i most likely would have given up!!! its pretty cool though. it would have taken forever then i would have rung jess to ask her how to do it!its a good idea to do because people can tell me if im wrong about what ever it is im babling about then i could fix it up. social constructivism using technology who would have thunk it!!!!!knowing how well i use technology i probably would have deleted not only my blog but everyone else's...if that is impossible im sure i would be able to do it!!!why did we use this whole networking bizzo??? well we're using our "higher-order thinking" we are using our ability to construct a on-line community of learners..were helping each other, if someone dosent understand we can make it clearer!!! simple really :) complex ideas become clearer when a peer explains it to us.:)

Networking

Ok today was kind of a tricky one seeing as my university comerades and i had to try and network into each others blogs so we could post stuff for each other on everyones sites. If i had done this task at home alone i would have been lost an hour ago. lost my wallet, phone and keys etc in the process. Gosh I've been mugged!!! I most probably would have blown up my computer screen. >insert smiley face< This activity does however teach you how to communicate and work in a group situation, a skill that modern day society requires, no demands. It is actually quite interesting to observe and participate in this group situation as you discover you have insights and ideas that you would not have had by yourself. This leads me to the idea of social constructivism. The sense of community we build,"Higher Order thinking" occurs and we develop communal awareness.

Types of Cognitive Tools

There are many types of cognitive tools in the world that can be used for educational purposes in secondary education that provide students with the necessary skills to live in a technologically dependant society ( the Y generation A.K.A the Digital generation)
Some of these Cognitive Tools are:
Inspiration
Windows Movie Maker
Games


WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER
Windows Movie Maker is a video editing software that is included in recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, time line narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XML code. This gives secondary students knowledge about how to edit and create movies. Handy if you are a budding Young Filmmaker.

GAMES
Games can be interactive and help students in a range of skill levels and subjects. For example there is an online game that teaches students road safety and road rules. It puts you in a virtual car and takes you for a driving lesson it interacts with you by asking what you would do in specific scenarios etc.

INSPIRATION
Inspiration helps students to focus and refine their ideas in an orderly fashion and teaches them how to think through and order their ideas. it is interactive and offers many aspects to help students thought processes.

Piaget..... French For??

Jean Piaget is the French psychologist who is responsible for recognising the cognitive ability in children in stages.

These stages are the level at which the children reason:

1) Sensorimotor stage: from birth to age 2 years (children experience the world through movement and senses and learn object permanence) which basically means that children learn that inanimate objects don't disappear when they disappear from view.
2) Preoperational stage: from ages 2 to 7 (acquisition of motor skills) Children learn to grasp language and learn to start thinking for themselves.
3) Concrete operational stage: from ages 7 to 11 (children begin to think logically about concrete events) they start to reason and learn to think laterally.
4) Formal operational stage: after age 11 (development of abstract reasoning). they can see things from a very abstract point of view.

These stages are not necessarily achieved by the children at the suggested age however. Piaget also believes that children are little philosophers and that they learn very quickly.

Next.......... Lets Go Vygotski

The next theorist im going to Prattle on about is Vygotsky. The major theme of Vygotsky's theory is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of students recognising and understanding (cognitive Recognition). Vygotsky states:
"Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals."
A second aspect of Vygotsky's theory is the idea that the potential for development depends upon the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD): a level of development attained when children engage in social behavior. Full development of this development depends uponthe persons social interaction. The range of skill that can be developed with adult guidance or peer collaboration can far surpass anything practised alone.
http://tip.psychology.org/vygotsky.html

Glasser Model

Ok this is another random post on another teacher named Glasser with a theory on how students should be taught. Glasser thought that people are driven by six basic needs and that they instinctually need to fulfill these needs. This is known as Choice Theory.

SIX BASIC NEEDS

1. Love
2. Survival
3. Power
4. Freedom
5. Fun
6. Belonging

http://raider.muc.edu/Scnelp/control%20Theory%20-%20Overhead.html this website explains the six basic needs and his ten axiams of choice theory.

Random Stuff On Hattie

John Hattie is a teacher/ University Lecturer in Auckland who believes that learning outcomes must have a meaning and that students are helped by teachers. Teachers must also listen to the needs of students. Here on this hyperlink http://www.acer.edu/workshops/documents/HattieSlides.pdf is the information and statistics that he believes helps influence the learning of students and what effect teachers have. you know all about learning, interaction blah blah blah. Have a look if your after an interesting read or even if your just curious.