Group Activities_Scratch

Here is the link of our scratch.

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12967448/

Hi, guys~

Could you upload the photos here?

Thx a lot.

A potential research topic

More and more students bring mobile devices into the classroom for learning. I am a very typical example. Due to my pregnancy and long journey to Hongkong, I am very reluctant to bring my laptop to the classroom, so my mobile phone are used in a very extreme way in learning. I preview lesson plans on Prezi, watch relevant videos on YouTube, view web pages through safari, manage key reading materials (word, PDF, PPT, etc.) with iBook, post my reflections on Group blog and individual blog as e-portfolios on Weebly and Blogger, discuss about presentations and homework with team members through webchat and QQ by sending instant text and audio messages, store and share our documents on Google drive, edit the same document at the same time with all the other team members on Google docs, check my emails from different faculties, teachers, classmates and so on through gmail, check and manage my own learning process through moodle, look for difficult terms or English words through electronic dictionary, and share what is happening in the classroom and school with friends through Weibo and Facebook, etc. only this small mobile phone can support teacher-directed instructions, small group learning and individual learning very well. Besides, iPhone is Palm-held, not expensive, and support keyboard input with acceptable screen size. From my own experience, wireless and mobile technologies bring forth a unique opportunity for educational researchers to find out how to construct a seamlessly integrated learning environment. Currently, schools can only accept iPad or laptop as mobile learning tools and are against iPhone. In the long term, I do believe smart phones will become the trend. That's why I'd like to explore more about how to utilize smart phones, especially iPhone, better in mobile learning, including the teaching strategies, learning materials, computer components, etc. needed to support it. PS: This short proposal is written and posted on iPhone. I am comfortably lying in the couch. It feels so good! I hope more people can benefit from my experiment and research.

-- Judy (Zhu Dan)

Group DEMO Class -- Something I've posted on Moodle in Oct.

Hi dears,

I want to design a student-centered English class. Following are some ideas:

Student level: Primary (Grade 3)

Teaching way: Project-oriented

Learning objective:

1. Knowledges: Learning about Christmas Day, Christmas Card and Christmas Song.

2. Skills: Learning about how to make a Christmas Card with the Christmas Song we've taught by themselves

3. Abilities: Group work; Collaboration; etc.

Following is the design of courseware:

I've made following changes to the PPT based on Amaly's suggestions:

Slide 1: I would like the words bigger and central with animation effects.

Slide 3: Make the calendar bigger to show the date clearly or just enlarge 25th.

Slide 4 & 5: Cut words. Still too many words for me if I am 8 years old. 

In case of any suggestions, please do let me know.

Many thanks.

--  Judy

Group reflection: what is educational research to you?

 In my opinion, educational research refers to using a variety of methods and basing on objective data, individuals define, analyze, explore, and solve specific educational problems. 

-- Judy

A potential research topic

I just come up with an idea with mobile learning. In digital age, everyone can learn what they like any time any where. Even in some classes, teachers prefer mobile learning. However, there are too much information and it's not an easy job for students to select and even judge value of the information, like whether it's helpful to their learning. As I know, in inquiry learning, teachers would give the students some scaffolds to guide the students. I wonder whether there can be somewhat scaffolds that can be provided by teachers to guide the students in mobile learning.

A potential research topic that would be useful in providing a solution to an educational issue

Use IT to Assist Assigning Homework is the potential research topic that links as below. School internet could be a useful solution without extra charge on students/parents with advantages in assigning homework particularly for younger students. As it is just a topic, no research process and conclusions are given in Prezi presentation. Anyone who is interested in the topic, please feel free to contact further.

Review on line-What is education research to you? - Amaly

Review on line-What is education research to you? - Amaly

Education research is a specific investigation and evaluation process focusing on various educational issues in expecting for achievements on knowledge, pedagogy, curriculum, education management and communication by analyzing in both qualitative and quantitative methods at the same time.  The issues including but not limited to all those relate to different aspects of education such as permission, infrastructure, hardware and software, human resources, management, practicing and assessment together with the interconnected and influence factors. 

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Why social networking tools cause many tragedies for teenagers? ( Potential research topic)

Why social networking tools cause many tragedies for teenagers?

--- Develop a restricted but helpful social networking tool for education.

 

Yesterday, I watched a video from “Daily Video” with a title of “What students think are the most important issues in education” (PBS 2013).  In this video, people talked some important issues for education in the case of conducting school reform. The video enlightens me to think about what are the factors that may influence students’ learning behaviour. With my interest in ITE, I mainly looked into the respect of social networking tools for education. Recently, with the development of social networking tools, such as Facebook, Twitter and Sina Weibo, people can get instant information from the ones that they cared about. Under this circumstance, some teachers encourage their students to go online and create a social networking account.

 

However, there are many teen victims suffered by the unrestricted social networking tools in these years.  A case in point is that a girl named Amanda Todd, committed suicide because a man she met in an online chat room circulated photos which flashing her breasts. Even she tried to move to different cities and change schools, the teenagers continued to target her through Facebook (Natalie 2012). Therefore, a restricted social networking tool for education is strongly expected. To be able to create such a tool, several things need to be investigated. Firstly, what are students’ needs in social networking? Secondly, how to prevent them from going to other social networking tools? Thirdly, what are the boundaries need to be made in educational social networking tools?

 

I believe, if such social networking tools have been invented, students will have a more healthy and interactive learning environment.

 

Works cited (HARVARD):

 

PBS 2013, What students think are the most important issues in education, Video, Daily Video, US. <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/daily_videos/what-students-think-are-the-most-important-issues-in-education/>

 

Natalie E, 2012, Girl, 15, 'found hanged' just weeks after posting heartbreaking YouTube video detailing battle with cyber bullies, 12 October, Viewed 19 October 2013, <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/amanda-todd-teenager-commits-suicide-1376976>