WEEK 4 - 10th August 2017

Reading

Video:

Consider the similarities and differences between leading a teaching team and leading a research team.

Leading a teaching team	Similarities	Leading a research team
Context Relationships - A longer period of time to develop good , strong relationships More collaboration Do research in their own time Have a lot more	Dedicated time Respect of an individual Feel included Delegating roles to empower staff Identify strengths Motivating staff	Context Time - constraints to meet deadlines. Relationships - not around long. Not a lot of contact with those they are collaborating with in their research Research is their job/role

Reading - Research informed teaching of adults: A worthy alternative to Old Habits and Hearsay?

1. Research-led: Curriculum content is based on research interests of teachers.
2. Research-oriented teaching: Teaching is based on creating a research ethos

Discussion

• Reflecting on your own practice - Teaching as inquiry.
• Research is focused on a very small window - focuses on one thing.
• We choose what is applicable to a situation.

Ann Brown	Metacognition
Bruner	Discovery learning
Papert	Constructionism
Hubbins	Lead singer-spinal tap
Piaget
O’Shaughnessey
Dewey
Fox
Darling-Hammond
Vygotsky
George Siemens	Connectivism - technology and digital age

Assignment - triangulate data, our observations, ask questions of children.. Include research from somewhere else… School research.

Learner autonomy and learner agency so children direct their own learning.

Finding things out in a different way.

RIT - the quality of RIT evidence is ensured by accessing peer reviewed literature.

APA Referencing

• In text citation
• At the end a full list of references.

Go to the Google scholar - tinyurl.com/TMLlibrarylink

Citethisforme.com

Add in the website/journal article/book etc

Add in the necessary details

Then it should give you the required reference

Constructivism - Ideas being made together, learning from other people. How do we do something (problem-solving). The internet can help with constructivism.

Constructionism - Hands on learning, building things to create understanding.

Scratch (coding programme)-  scratch.mit.edu

Click create

Events

Sound

Constructionism evokes the idea of learning-by-making

Constructivism is  based on type of learning which the learner forms, or constructs, much of what he/she comprehends.

ICT for learning

Collaboration

Co operative vs collaborative?

You learn a lot more together.

ASSIGNMENT

Uploading assignment

Click on assignment

Go down to the bottom of the page

Upload media

THEN Go to the right of the page and SUBMIT your assignment!

Teacher: I’m justifying why I need to change __________

I spoke with my learners

Students want

Whanau want

Extended research: I researched ____________