Activity 3: Contemporary issues or trends in New Zealand or internationally
Shifting the focus to student-centered learning-Issue (Education Review Office, 2012)
Education Review Office (2012, pg. 7) states that "In the most successful schools, the trustees, leaders and teachers have an uncompromising focus on fostering students' interests and strengths, and on addressing their learning needs". Student-centered learning encompasses all of this. If you provide the opportunity for your learners to choose what they want to learn about the engagement and motivation of those students to learn sky rockets. I do a thing called adventure learning in my classroom where students get to choose what they are interested in and learn about it. It is taken from the concept of Google's 20% time where their employees were able to work on something that they wanted to work on for 20% of their week. Applications such as the Google Teacher Academy and gmail were created during this time. It fosters innovation and if you can develop this in your students then you have hooked them. Finding learning experiences "...when time seems to collapse and disappear, when intensity in the process takes over and the thrill is so great that one hates seeing it end and can’t wait to get back to it” (Deci & Flaste 1996, pg 47) are so important. As a community of practice it is important to find the new and exciting ways to develop student-centered learning. One way is providing the opportunity for students to develop partnerships with the teacher, where they get to create their own learning goals and develop their own understandings of how they learn. Where they get feel comfortable enough to choose what they learn and feel that they have the opportunity to fail and learn from that failure in an safe and nurturing environment.
Enabling Technology-Global Megatrend (KPMG International, 2014)
It is important to embrace new technologies. By embracing new technologies teachers are able to access wider communities of learning, where learning conversations can happen around the world instead of confined to the four walls of a classroom. Having this access enables learners to not only develop their research skills but also their ability to learn about what they want to learn. This ties in with student-centered learning because if the students have the technology to give them access to the world then the when it comes to learning the array of global knowledge and opportunities become more accessible. KMPG International (2014, pg. 22) states that "the exponential growth in the volume and speed of access to information and communication has numerous effects". One such effect for the education sector and my community of practice is the collaboration it fosters. Students are able to work collaboratively on a piece of writing or adventure learning project through the ability to share their work. This sharing ability also allows students to reach an authentic and real audience where they can get a wider variety of feedback and feed forward.
There is a direct correlation between student-centered learning and the ability to access technology. By having that access to information technologies students are able to gather and make sense of the world in their own ways. Not to mention the benefits of assistive technologies for students who have learning needs. The way technology is used in the classroom is becoming a more prominent learning curve for communities of practice, especially my community of practice where we are developing our understanding of how to use technology in the classroom to assist learning effectively. It is important to embrace it to develop and understand where education is going and what skills are needed.
Deci, E., & Flaste, R. (1996). Why we do what we do. New York: Penguin Books
Enabling Technology-Global Megatrend (KPMG International, 2014)
It is important to embrace new technologies. By embracing new technologies teachers are able to access wider communities of learning, where learning conversations can happen around the world instead of confined to the four walls of a classroom. Having this access enables learners to not only develop their research skills but also their ability to learn about what they want to learn. This ties in with student-centered learning because if the students have the technology to give them access to the world then the when it comes to learning the array of global knowledge and opportunities become more accessible. KMPG International (2014, pg. 22) states that "the exponential growth in the volume and speed of access to information and communication has numerous effects". One such effect for the education sector and my community of practice is the collaboration it fosters. Students are able to work collaboratively on a piece of writing or adventure learning project through the ability to share their work. This sharing ability also allows students to reach an authentic and real audience where they can get a wider variety of feedback and feed forward.
There is a direct correlation between student-centered learning and the ability to access technology. By having that access to information technologies students are able to gather and make sense of the world in their own ways. Not to mention the benefits of assistive technologies for students who have learning needs. The way technology is used in the classroom is becoming a more prominent learning curve for communities of practice, especially my community of practice where we are developing our understanding of how to use technology in the classroom to assist learning effectively. It is important to embrace it to develop and understand where education is going and what skills are needed.
References:
Deci, E., & Flaste, R. (1996). Why we do what we do. New York: Penguin Books
Education Review Office. (2012). Evaluation at a Glance: Priority Learners in New Zealand Schools. Retrieved 18 May 2016, from http://www.ero.govt.nz/About-Us/News-Media-Releases2/The-three-most-pressing-issues-for-N
KPMG International. (2014). Future state 2030: the global megatrends shaping governments”. KPMG International Cooperative: USA. Retrieved fromhttp://www.kpmg.com/Global/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/future-state-government/Documents/future-state-2030-v3.pdf
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