What cool things do you want to learn?
Before you embark on a new learning adventure, you need to work out what it is you need or want to learn. It could be a change of career, enhancing your knowledge for your career or personal interest, learning a new technology, equipping yourself for industry change or just a thirst for life long learning.Once you make a decision about what you might want to learn, the Internet offers many different methods that you can use to develop the skills that you need. From YouTube videos on just about anything, to blogs and forums, facebook groups and organisations, online universities, iTunesU, informative websites, corporate or vendor technical support websites etc.
Assessment Task 1 (a)
Your assessment will be in the form of Blog Posts - there will be 5 in total, each worth 20% of your grade. You may use Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr or if you already have an existing Blog, you may use that. Your Blog URL is to be provided on the Assessment task upload button that is in week 1. Your Blog must be set to public OR you must add me as a reader or share with me so that I can see your posts.Before we go to the first task, think of a skill (or skills) that you would like to learn or something that you would like to know more about. INCLUDE THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FIRST POST.
Online Resources - YouTube
YouTube is an infinite resource on just about anything you can think of. Just to prove this, I started to put in "Using a " in the search box. I was going to put in "Using a slow cooker" as I have just bought a cheap one to try and see whether I would get some use out of it before I invested in a decent one. This is what showed up.
As I said - you can find a video on pretty much anything you want to.
Once I completed the slow cooker search, I came up with a variety of YouTube videos that I can view to see whether they are of any use.
YouTube also has Channels - Channels are people, groups or organisations that you can subscribe to and view all of their videos.
Assessment Task 1 (b)
Using the skill that you thought of earlier, find 5 YouTube videos that you think cover the topic adequately and post the results in your blog.
For each video you find you are to include:
- a brief description of the content
- quality of the production
- whether it was what you expected based on description
- a star rating out of 5
iTunesU
If you are a fan of iTunes, then you will love iTunesU. iTunesU is Apple's education precinct. It allows educators to set up whole courses for students to access with many major universities offering resources via iTunesU for free. There is also "an app for that". If you have an iOS device such as an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch you can download the iTunesU app. It is optimised for use with an iPad, but there are still heaps of sites that you can access from your browser/iTunes app.
Here are some examples of some of the well known colleges/universities that have offerings on iTunes U
http://itunes.stanford.edu/
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/teaching-learning/innovation/la-trobe-on-itunesu
If you need to download iTunes, you can download it from here
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Assessment Task 1 (c)
Locate 5 Australian Universities or TAFE colleges that are on iTunes U and post the links to your BLOG
Locate 5 lessons, articles or courses on iTunes U that have piqued your interest and that you think you can learn something interesting from. Provide details of the course such as the Title and Institution. What is it that made you select these particular items?
Post the responses to the above on your Blog.
TAEDEL401A - Learning Theories
Learning Theories and styles
There are a number of Learning Theories that have been developed over time and that address various aspects of how people learn. Before we start to design our training sessions, it is important to know that there are different types of learners, with each type responding better to a particular teaching method.
http://www.learning-theories.com/
http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/education/other/theories.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
http://learningfordummies.wikispaces.com/home
Bloom
From Wikipedia:"Bloom's taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). It divides educational objectives into three "domains": cognitive, affective, and psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as "knowing/head", "feeling/heart" and "doing/hands" respectively). Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels. A goal of Bloom's taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfp3x_qx5IM
Social Cognitive Theory
One of the core concepts of SCT is that learning occurs through observation. Teachers, parents and peers can all act as models for the students to observe and learn behaviour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d4gmdl3zNQ&list=PL5F92C6475BA0298F
Kolb
In the early 1970s, Kolb and Ron Fry (now both at the Weatherhead School of Management) developed the Experiential Learning Model (ELM) composed of four elements:
- concrete experience,
- observation of and reflection on that experience,
- formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection,
- testing the new concepts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A30NnrkwFmQ
Fleming
VARK Model
http://vark-learn.com/introduction-to-vark/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRWnz7tppWk
Class Activity
How do you learn? Take the test to find out how you learn best using the VARK model
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
OR
http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml
Share your results and whether you think it is accurate or not
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