Readings and Activities for Week Five

This week we had a chance to discuss the Most Likely to Succeed film. We used a structured Jamboard to collect our thoughts, you can set one up for your own teaching and learning activities quite simply. I hope the film was a nice diversion from the readings and provided a chance for critical reflection.

I also hope you found value in the Frameworks to Guide Practice article. Some of these frameworks, such as SAMR, may be familiar and may make sense in your practice. I introduce some further frameworks in the slidedeck below, constructive alignment and TPACK. I encourage you to keep these frameworks in mind when designing new or considering current activities you use to engage learners. These should also be helpful in the Learning Activity Design project.

Here is a short slide deck to demonstrate a couple more learning design models that you might find useful.

Resources to Review for Week Five

This week, I am keeping the readings light once again, with only one academic paper to complete. I am actually going to get you to review an article I wrote last year, that explores the idea of teachers as content creators. Much of my research has explored how educators use the web to find inspiration, source, combine, develop, remix, and share educational material. This article attempts to bring together many of those threads and documents some of the opportunities that educators can take advantage of. Read critically (I will not take critique personally) and I appreciate your comments on this work. Next week we will talk more about open educational resources, and how to find, use, remix, and share them to support your teaching.

Paskevicius, M. (2021). . Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021(1), 18.

Please add at least one annotation to the text, but don’t hold back if you want to add more! Each week, I appreciate you completing the annotations by the Monday before our next class.

If you are having trouble or have questions about annotating with Hypothes.is, please reach out to me directly, I am here to help!

Resources to Bring to Week Five

I want you to spend a little time exploring how you might find examples of learning activities shared by other teachers. These may be activities you conduct face-to-face or online. I am providing a list of a few learning activity repositories that I use, for you to review. You may know additional ones, I encourage you to share these with your peers on Mattermost. I will then add these to the list below.

The task for this week is to find a learning activity shared by another teacher among these repositories (or others you know of) and bring it to our next synchronous session together for discussion. Consider the following when reviewing the activity you identify:

Is the activity documented well enough that I can make use of it?
What kind of environment and resources will I need (classroom setup, discussion tables, post it notes/markers, google doc/jamboard/ classroom, zoom, etc.)
Are there additional resources or learning materials available required to prepare for or complete this activity?
What type of learning theory may apply to the activity?

If you have questions, reach out to me on Mattermost. Have a great week 🙂

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