Task 1: Create a word cloudAs you reflect on your engaged learning, collect and curate words that mean something. This will model and demonstrate ideas, concepts or topics that are particularly important to you as a digital teacher and learner.
Review the course site and your own blog site. Be critical in your word choices and only select those that provide clarity to your thinking about digital teaching and learning. Those words that have more significance or importance to YOU, should be given greater 'weight' or 'size' in the word cloud you generate. You can also add in characteristics or qualities you feel are important for your own development and growth as a digitally literate teacher and learner. |
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Task 2: Reflect on your engaged learning
It's important as an educator to take time to stop and reflect. From this process, we can set goals and review next steps. This is a reflection about your personal learning and growth in accessing, using, understanding and creating with digital technologies.
Outlined in the course description are the following points for you to consider:
Engagement is manifested in a number of clear behaviours beyond mere presence. Students who consistently contribute to the learning of others will succeed in this class. Students will exhibit observable, quantifiable manifestations of engagement that include any of the following:
How have you engaged with the course content, digital technologies and with others in the classroom?
How have you exhibited observable engagement?
Where will you focus efforts for improvement by setting personal learning goals?
Write a brief summary, focusing on your engaged learning in this course and what it means for you as a digital learner and teacher.
Outlined in the course description are the following points for you to consider:
Engagement is manifested in a number of clear behaviours beyond mere presence. Students who consistently contribute to the learning of others will succeed in this class. Students will exhibit observable, quantifiable manifestations of engagement that include any of the following:
- completing the readings before class,
- checking the course site at least once a week,
- contributing to discussions at least once per class in a way that advances, not dominates, the conversation,
- demonstrating engagement with and appropriate use of technology to support teaching and learning,
- treating yourself and your colleagues with courtesy and respect,
- responding to communication from instructors in a timely manner,
- meeting with the instructors as required/requested
- taking advantage of opportunities to engage in meaningful tasks with others
- engaging fully with in-class tasks, events and assignments.
How have you engaged with the course content, digital technologies and with others in the classroom?
How have you exhibited observable engagement?
Where will you focus efforts for improvement by setting personal learning goals?
Write a brief summary, focusing on your engaged learning in this course and what it means for you as a digital learner and teacher.
- Write about what you have done to engage your learning so far in this course? What is the impact to your digital awareness as a learner and future teacher.
- So what do these new digital tools and resources mean to you? So what digital technologies will shape your learning? So what will this do for your teaching?
- Now what will you do to engage in topics, issues, digital technologies and conversations? Now what technologies will you try and why will you engage with them? Now what will this issue or exploration do to your future teaching?