TECP317 Artefact 4

Artefact 5 - Reflective Blog Future-focussed education and your TPACK The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) describes the future focus principle as “encouraging students to look to the future by exploring such significant future focused issues as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise, and globalisation. Today’s teaching and learning needs to be conducted through a future-focused lens.  Schools play an important part in helping students explore new ways of thinking and working.  As teachers we are shaping tomorrows leaders, we are setting our students up for jobs and careers that may not even exist today. Students need to be taught the necessary skills to survive in an ever-changing environment. In order for students to look to the future and explore the future focused issues, they need to develop the knowledge and skills to support this exploration.  Learners need to make connections about what they already know and what they are learning. ...

Artefact 4 - Blog Post Evaluation of four online or e-learning applications Kahoot It enables the teacher to assess students understanding of acquired knowledge through a fun, captivating and sometimes competitive way. It can be accessed across multiple devices.  It can be used as a collaborative or individual activity, accessed at school or at home.  However the downsides are that internet access is required and the outcomes are always predetermined and not open and fluid. This application allows for bicultural consideration through the ability to not only educate about  kaupapa Māori, but also through the use of te reo Māori ( Ministry of Education, 2011).    Kahoot relies on students to contribute appropriately as collaborative group members.  It encourages the key competency of Participating and Contributing (Ministry of Education, 2007). Padlet It enables the teacher to set an open topic for collaborative ...