Lin show us some interesting website today. While access internet, it is not difficult to find all those online educational games, and I really love trying out all those games and include in T&L. Frankly speaking, I actually didn’t realize that all those games designed according to three main learning theories: Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Constructivism. That means before this, I only using online educational games in teaching content knowledge without concern about the pedagogy knowledge. Such awareness made me feel ashamed, especially when I recall that I have learn TPCK framework with Dr Tee in Semester 2. Lin’s presentation reminds me that I should be aware of all this in future, thanks, Lin.
I have opportunity revise TPACK framework through Sailor’s presentation. It looks easy but really challenging while applying in real situation. And as a teacher who brought up in conventional education system and applied conventional style for more than 10 years, I found myself I still go back to preset mind unconsciously although I know I shouldn’t. Habits are terrible things!
To become a up-to-date teacher, we should complete our backpack with all those important object (as picture above), it’s not easy but it really a guide for me to move forward.
Today I have my first experience online chatting with more than one person at the same time. We are request to discuss online 2 types of technologies we are using in T&L based on the article written by McGreat and Elliot. When I finally manage to get in to chat room, people already busy chatting out there. Different dialog pop up non stop, a little bit can’t catch up with the conversation……have to admit that I am not net gen, but it was a good experience. Next time, I’ll be able to get into the pool easier.
After conversation session, I found that most popular technology teaching tools using were ppt, Youtube, mp3, FB…..surprisingly, Wikispaces is not popular than Google site, may be GS more user friendly. I don’t know whether it is luckily or unfortunate, I’m the only one using Wikispaces in T&L, I was ask to show how I using it in class. Actually, I would like to share my experience but then I have no confidence to do so without preparation. So, next week I am going to share in class. Actually I am quite curious how to set up Moodle as T&L platform. In Malaysia, Moodle is not that popular in secondary school, but in China, I found that it’s quite common.
After chatting, Pn Ng discuss with us a few tools we mention in dialog. she show us how she used Youtube in T&L. That give me a new idea how to repurpose Youtube as language teaching tools. I once gave a similar project to my students early of the year, but now only I found out that actually I didn’t fully use Youtube as a teaching tools. In Youtube itself already can add in comments and rating the video, I don’t need to link back to Facebook for them to vote. When I having this activity with my Form 4 & 5 students, one group of students did question me why I gave such an activity which they feel don’t have much connection with language activity except for writing lyrics. Now I know how I should redesign the activity so that it can improve my students’ language ability.
Today’s lesson we were explore to different online education games for different subject. really edutainment. I think students will be attract by all this interesting games. Although the online interactive games for learning Chinese is interesting too, but more suitable for 2nd language learner. If I show my students, they will run away when they see all those English instruction. Actually we known that online education games for learning Chinese as the first language is not easy to get especially for secondary students, but we really appreciate Pn Ng’s effort for getting those games for us. Hoping we could be able to search for some online education games for the used in our 3rd assignment.
