Working and collaborating with others, whether you are a child or an adult, is not always easy. For most people it is not always easy or enjoyable. However, going though module two helped me see several ways to make collaboration be easier and more enjoyable for people.
When I was younger and in school, I was never a fan of group work. Throughout the years, I did grow to like group work better. But I think whether I liked the group assignment or not had to do with how the teacher went about setting up the particular assignment also. I think how a teacher goes about things in his or her classroom is extremely important.
Even though, it took me a while to become a fan of group work, I do think that collaboration is extremely important. I say this because I am an early childhood major and Lev Vygotsky is one of the theorists that plays a huge role in my pedagogy. Vygotsky is huge on social interactions and he believed that children learn best from each other. Therefore, I think collaboration and social interactions in an early childhood classroom are very important.
Like the last module, I took away the importance of web literacy. I want my future students to be able to participate, read and write. I want my future student to participate with one another and do research and read about things they’re interested in and go back and write about in. I want my students to get excited about getting involved with these kinds of things. I wanted to include the web literacy chart because I do think this is handy to refer to because I could ask myself “how exactly are my children participating?”
While going through module two, I really enjoyed watching the video, “SAMR in 120 seconds” (https://youtu.be/us0w823KY0g). Before this module, I had never heard of the SAMR model. This video really broke it down quickly and was very short, sweet and to the point about it. The “S” is for substitution and stands for using basically the same computer program for what you would use it for every day. The “A” is for augmentation which stands for increasing functionality in that computer program. The “M” is for modification which means you would redesign what you would normally use that particular program for. And the “R” is for redefinition which means designing and creating tasking that were unimaginable. Another technique I found that I liked was the TPACK. This was in the TPACK video (https://youtu.be/_a90EvWfoLU). TPACK stands for technological pedagogical and content knowledge. This video took place in a rural school in Texas. A fourth grade science teacher and a technology teacher teamed together to create an assignment for the children. The assignment was for the children to work in groups and research the great pacific garbage patch and how it is harmful to our oceans and how it could affect them, then they were to create a commercial using movie making advertising the crisis.
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