EXPRESS IT!!!: July 2010

Saturday, July 10, 2010

MY PERSONAL VIEW ON A LEARNING COMMUNITY

MY PERSONAL VIEW ON A LEARNING COMMUNITY

INTRODUCTION:

What is Learning Community?

Learning communities is a group of people sharing ideas,beliefs and common values. And according to Shapiro & Levine, (1999), "Learning Communities represent a major transformation in how campuses think about teaching and learning". Learning community is very useful to us, because we share and gain ideas to other people. And one example of learning community is the technology, because as we all know that Technology is a term referring to whatever can be said at any particular historical period, concerning the state of the art in the whole general field of practical know-how and tool use. And also technology can make our work easier. And can also help the students enhance their capabilities.

Just like me, I’ve been exposed to computers since I was in my elementary years. Because in our school we have computer subject, they teaches us how to use the software of the computer such as the Microsoft word, PowerPoint and excel. And also they teach how to surf the net or use the social networking. Since then, I have no problems in surfing the internet or using the software of the Microsoft. Technology can really help us to make our work easier and faster, example for this is sending e-mails, chatting using yahoo messenger or other chatting network. And technology can connect us to our family in far places.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. ~John Kenneth Galbraith

I am so grateful to have this subject, because Educational Technology can help me think more and express my ideas more. I really enjoy this subject, especially when there is an online-class. Because before, I thought online-classes is boring or you cannot learn from it, but when I experienced online-class it was fun and exciting. Because you can directly express your thoughts or ideas, and I didn’t expect that I’ll be having my own BLOG. Because, I thought that I will be just online-classes, comments and reading articles in the net. But, I am also thankful to have my own blog, because I can write or express my ideas, and express my feelings, and opinions and etc.

Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments.

References

Creating Learning Communities; Shapiro & Levine,1999, p. xi

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_learning_community par.1

www.quotegarden.com/technology.html

Monday, July 5, 2010

Presentation at the Technology in Education - 2010 Australian Higher Education Congress - Presentation Transcript

Fostering innovation in teaching and learning – adapting emerging technologies and developing new applications 12 March 2010 Dheeraj Chowdhury Assistant Director Learning Applications and Multimedia
Agenda
- Who we are
- Why we are doing IT
- What is IT that we are doing
- How are we doing it
Fostering and promoting innovation in teaching and learning Schools CLI NSW Department of Education and Training Corporate Services TAFE and Community Education Strategic Planning & Regulation
WHY
Education !.0
Teaching and Learning Our driver
Consumer to Contributor Gary Olsen, Dubuque Schools, www.dubuque.k12.ia.us
WHAT
- $2.2 billion over six years to:
- ICT equipment
- high speed broadband for schools
- training for teachers in the use of ICT
- learning tools and resources to support the national curriculum
- parent participation
- support for deployment of ICT
$158 million over four years to enhance the Department's ICT capacity for teaching and learning. Interactive Classrooms Project (ICP) Learning Tools Project (LTP) Network Enhancement Project (NGEN) https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/strat_direction/schools/ccp/model/ccp_final/index.html Connected Classrooms Program
‘ Connected Experience ’ products and services
The real - HOW
Empower for Self Expression
Motivate to Engage
Enable creativity
The IT - HOW
Digital Learning Application EcoSystem
http://staging.cli.nsw.edu.au/uat/ecosystem/ (requires MS Sliverlight plugin)
IT’s Adoption ( http://www.google.com/analytics )
Presentation name v.100 Acknowledgements and thank you’s the web (www) Flickr.com (http:www.flickr.com) Contributors (bloggers)
Presentation name v.100 Thank you Q and a

Opposites Attract by Juris

You’re a morning kind of person
Everything is spic and span
I could live with all the clutter
Stay so late at night I can
I would often think it out loud
Say whatever’s on my mind
You would rather keep your mouth shut
Leave the details all behind

You take me just as I am
No more, no less, just as I am, oh yeah

I wanna go right, you’d rather go left
I wanna go fight, you’d rather be quiet
I wanna be right, you’d rather be wrong
I wanna be weak, you’d rather be strong
Movin’ along, singin’ our song
Opposites do attract
Nedding each other, always together
Opposites do attract

You would rather choose to follow
I would rather lead the play
I would do it all tomorrow
You would do it all today
I just want the nitty-gritty
You would rather summarize
Every detail of the story
That you never emphasize

You take me just as I am
No more, no less, just as I am, oh yeah

I wanna go right, you’d rather go left
I wanna go fight, you’d rather be quiet
I wanna be right, you’d rather be wrong
I wanna be weak, you’d rather be strong
Movin’ along, singin’ our song
Opposites do attract
Needing each other, always together
Opposites do attract

You take me just as I am
No more, no less, just as I am, oh yeah

I wanna go right, you’d rather go left
I wanna go fight, you’d rather be quiet
I wanna be right, you’d rather be wrong
I wanna be weak, you’d rather be strong
Movin’ along, singin’ our song
Opposites do attract
Needing each other, always together
Opposites do attract

Movin’ along, singin’ our song
Opposites do attract
Needing each other, always together
Opposites do attract

How Education Uses Behaviorism?

Behaviorism techniques have used in education for a long time to encourage behavior that is desirable and to discourage behavior that is not desirable.

So, How Education Uses Behaviorism ?? Behaviorism techniques used in education are contracts, consequence, reinforcement, extinction and behavior modification.

Contracts are highly effective in helping children concentrate on behavior change. Positive behavior should be identified and then the child and teacher (or counselor) should agree on the terms of the contract. A behavioral contract can be used not only in school but also at home and teachers and parents can work together to ensure that the child fulfills the terms of the contract.

Consequences should happen immediately after a particular behavior. Consequences can be positive or negative, material or symbolic, expected or unexpected, or immediate or long term. When a target behavior takes place, consequences occur. Positive reinforcement acts a stimulus to increase the probability of a good behavior while negative reinforcement increases the probability of that negative behavior will not take place. Here negative reinforcement should not be a punishment as this will increase the probability of the bad behavior occurring. Rather negative reinforcement should do away with a consequence that the student does not like. For example, if students score 80 percent or more, they do not have to take the final exam.

Punishment decreases the frequency of an unwanted behavior. In fact, punishment is highly effective in getting rid of unwanted behaviors. For instance, students who fight are immediately sent to the principal or if students do not do their homework, they will have to stay back after school in the detention room.

Extinction is the process where the expected response to a behavior is withheld. For instance, when a child misbehaves, he could be made to sit in the corner all alone and thereby is separated from the group. Here the expected response would be scolding from the parents but is deprived of it.