Week 1 and Pedagogy

week 1 lesson plan  tinyurl.com/ateteach1

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If you have time to read and process this entire document you either have too much free time or a long train journey into work. However, it deals very thoroughly with the links between pedagogy and technology and, rather helpfully, covers broad learning theory/ pedagogic approaches by way of introduction (see p.15). It goes into a lot more detail than is essential for this course but you may well find it interesting.

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The first session will be addressing the nature of e-teaching and e-learning more by exemplar than old school teaching but there will be room for virtual and 'proper' face to face discussion too. 

The key questions I want to raise this week are:

• is teaching with technology all about a new pedagogy or is it simply another collection of resources to enhance what we already do and the way we do it?
• what is meant by 'the cloud' and 'web 2.0'?
• How easy and how free are these resources? 

week 1 Lesson plan

We'll start by creating and using things such as: 

a short animation http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html (can be used as ice breaker to introduce a pair, to present objectives, as a plenary, to highlight a single fundamental learning point, for students to summarise aspects of what they have learnt....or... you tell me)

Create a text/ twitter poll http://www.polleverywhere.com/ There's a lot of expensive software out there that does what polleverywhere does for free. Of course there are limitations but it's still pretty impressive. 

You'll hear mention of  'Google Jockeying' read about it here: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7014.pdf

You'll also here the term 'flipped learning' - here's an excellent guide with some to the point videos: http://elearningindustry.com/the-flipped-classroom-guide-for-teachers

The main practical thing everyone needs to come away with after this session is the ability to blog! If the word makes you wince for any reason then suspend that for the duration of the course but do offer critical views, scepticism and worries as we go too.

week 1 lesson plan

week 1 dfilm (this is embedded into the blog rather than linked externally- pros: no ads, easy to find. Cons: small and auto plays so can be annoying)