Robert Slavin (2010) speaks about it the best in his book called In The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice. He leans more to the term co-operative learning and has 5 key practices that help to make this type of Group Learning effective: Form interdependent teams Set Group Goals Ensure Individual Accountability Teach […]
The Electronic Learning Space
It seems that more and more we move into tomorrow the more and more technology is becoming part of the learning space. The question is always going to be how do we keep up with this innovative tool and are we using it effectively? Technology often is introduced and never used properly. The students usually […]
Beyond the Classroom
Here we find ourselves moving from the traditional classroom setting and entering the space that is beyond. This is a exciting time for many students and we can create such memorable times when we participate in such a learning space. I remember I used to work at a school that next door had a couple […]
The Classroom and the School
Over the course of the next 5 posts I am going to be looking at the 5 learning spaces. The first one I am going to look into is the Classroom and School. I am going to give my interpretation of how I see these spaces so please remember that their is probably not […]
The Walls Around Me………
“When I play Capoeira I forget about the walls around me,” (Hassan, 13, Boys Juvenile Centre Syria, 2009). This quote comes from the below video that I was watching this week in my course EDFD459, The Learning Space. To be honest it shook me up in a lot of ways. Firstly, a boy of 13 […]
What is PLN anyway?
In Week 2 of my module EDFD459 we have started to look at a PLN. A PLN is an acronym for Personal Learning Network. We were asked to read the article by Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto (2012) entitled, ‘What is a PLN, anyway?’ Whilst reading this article I began to realise that we as teachers all […]
My e-Presentation on Learning Spaces
Hi Everyone, For our second assignment in EDFD459 we looked into different learning spaces. The 5 Learning Spaces we looked at were: The Classroom and the School Beyond the Classroom The Electronic Learning Space The Individual Learning Space The Group Learning Space We were required to come up with and e-Presentation to better understand these […]
Classroom Design – Week 3
Wow this is certainly an interesting topic that can generate a lot of discussion. I remember when I went to school in South Africa and it was my school was a self directed style of learning. So no interaction/co-operation/communication at all. Below is a picture of what our desks were like and we worked by […]
Where am I with regards to Salmon’s Five Stages of Online Learning?
Hi Online Friends, So as we have been going through our course at ACU called The Learning Space we have been challenged in more ways than one to start to think about the classroom in many different aspects. Part of our course has been looking into the article by Salmon, G. (2011) which is titled […]
Salmons Five Stage Model for Collaborative Online Learning
Hi Online Friends, So this post was written up about 5 weeks ago but I realised that I had saved to draft instead of actually posting it so better late the never I guess. Salmon, G. (2011) has put together a five stage model for collaborative online learning. HE has an underlying assumption to his […]
Does a Classroom Need 4 Walls? 