We were introduced a new tool this week- building a wallwisher. That was funny, very simple to create and completely a new concept for my students, which surprised me a lot! I showed them my wall http://padlet.com/wall/3dznwz5ixj and explained them how to make it and we all decided to use the wall for a change.
We also created a wall on the Learner Autonomy which was one of the reading assignments of the week.
As Benson stated "The autonomous learner is the one who constructs knowledge from their own experience, rather than the one who responds to someone's instructions".
Learner autonomy helps the student work independently, motivates and encourages him/her to reflect on self learning and make assessment. Autonomy empowers the student to think independently and be responsible for the decisions he/she makes.
We shared our experience working with one computer in the classroom since there is a lot that a class can do even with one computer. There are teachers in our group who have "one computer/ one student" system in the country but there are also teachers who don't have even one computer in the classroom and have to take students to the computer lab to introduce them the webpages and teach them how to navigate in the internet. Apart from using computers for teacher/student presentations, tests, computers develop such skills as word processing, critical thinking, problem solving and fosters independent learning. Students receive instant feedback when they do a test which motivates them to keep learning.
Since we started teachnology change in the classrooms we have to reflect on these changes and prepare the draft of the Final Project by Wednesday. As the course is coming to the end, we had to select the partner during the week and I decided to work with Nazeer because I always liked to read his posts in the nicenet discussions and I am sure he will give the most objective opinion of my project. In my turn, I will try to do my best reading his project.
Hi Irada!!!!
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with you. Wallwisher is an enormous technique for teaching.Wallwisher is an online collaboration tool to share ideas, resources, and thoughts on a particular topic. It plays very vital role in one computer classroom as well as in encouraging learner autonomy. Wallwisher can be utilized as icebreaker activity. We can produce one of our own, and give our schoolboys the opportunity to post their short profiles onto our “walls”. By doing so, we can help them feel comfortable with each other by learning a little bit about the their classmates.for example, their favorite school subjects, likes and dislikes, hobbies, weekend outing, and so on. Teacher can put activities, videos, quizzes, discussions, stories, and so on, regarding his/her subject for students onto “wall”. I love this tool very, very much. You have written excellent blog. GOOD JOB!!!!
Warm regards,
Nazeer Ahmed
Hello Irada and Nazeer,
ReplyDeleteI liked your post about the way we can use the padlet to enhance the students learning. This tool is simple. Each students can add and delete from it very easily and at ant time. It has a variety of types of files that can be added. This makes this tool more interactive. I am going to add it in my blog and apply it in my class. i think my students will like it.
Mustafa
Hey Irada,
ReplyDeleteI liked the way you have reflected the whole week in this reflection.I liked the issue where no computers are used and even there are no computers inside the classroom. These issues are the main constraints for the use of technology. Keep on doing such good job.
----Aadesh.