Can you think of a lesson that made a difference in your life? Russell Stannard told us his story:
' His teacher draw four squares on the floor and wrote a colour in each of them ( blue - red - green - orange). The students were divided into groups and the idea of the activity was to negotiate with the rest of the groups in order to draw three lines as motorways to connect the four countries. The teacher left the room and when he came back everything was a disaster and he said: That's what's wrong with the world'.
After listening to Russell's story, we shared our own stories in groups.
Then we watched three videos about multitasking and talked about how multitasking and the Internet are affecting the way we think.
VIDEO 1 How multitasking is affecting the way you think. Clifford Nass.
VIDEO 2 Does multitasking slow you down?
VIDEO 3 Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains.
VIDEO 4 Sugata Mitra: Build a school in the cloud (2013)
We also watched a video about an experiement carried out by Sugata Mitra and the future of learning and we thought about the following questions:
- What does the talk make you think about?
- Do teachers have a future?
- Will there be fewer teachers in the future?
In the afternoon we saw two examples of courses on Moodle and had a virtual classroom on Adobe Connect which is a sophisticated version of Skype.
OUR GOLDEN RULES
- Don't overload.
- Link everything together.
- Aims that underpin your teaching.
- Taking Bloom's taxonomy as a guide.
- Be selective.
- Lots of modalities of interaction.
- Flipping is scalable.
- Be sceptical about new technology tools.
- Organisation of content on the VLE.
- Using the content that students generate.
As a conclusion, I can say that all in all, the experience cut the mustard.
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| Best trainer, Russell Stannard |
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| Farewell Tea at The Cathedral Cloisters |
