Transcript Visualising Learning Design with Pre-Service Teachers Leanne Cameron Macquarie University [email protected] Leanne Cameron No 1 TEP Course Rationale: • Encourage students to be thinkers, designers and life-long learners •

Visualising Learning Design
with Pre-Service Teachers
Leanne Cameron
Macquarie University
[email protected]
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TEP Course Rationale:
• Encourage students to be thinkers, designers
and life-long learners
• Select and model thoughtful and adaptive
approaches to learning design
• Realise the potential of Web 2.0 tools:
Plan their integration and effective
pedagogical use
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We needed to design effective
learning activities that:
• Demonstrate a clear relationship between
theory, research and practice
• Support active participation and student
engagement
• Encourage critical thinking and reflection
• Employ the collaborative investigation of
problems
• Enable students to design, author and re-use
their designs
• Provide opportunities for co-creation of
resources
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A LAMS Sequence
- How to buy a mobile phone
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What is the point of writing a
lesson plan?
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Their textbook says:
• Ensures teachers are better prepared for
instruction
• Enables them to consider different options
• Assists with evaluating the lesson
• Helps build-up their confidence
(Marsh, 2004)
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My Students ask:
Does writing a “lesson plan” really make
my lesson any better in the classroom?
To them, written lesson plan = paperwork
But LAMS = real lesson
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Why use LAMS?
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LAMS is an excellent scaffold
for lesson design
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Allows students to “visualise”
the activity mix
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Enables them to experience
the lesson as a learner
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Creates a standardised
template facilitating re-use
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Produces more than
documentation so students
will do it
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Learners as Designers
During these sessions collaboration,
peer tutoring and workshopping of
each others’ sequences was
encouraged. Not only did this develop
students’ ability to critically evaluate
peer’s work, it also helped them reflect
on the success of their own product.
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Increased Variety
of Assignment
Students who performed poorly in the
formal written assignment, often
achieved excellent marks and reported
high levels of engagement and
satisfaction with this (Reynolds).
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Benefits of using LAMS with
THEIR students:
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Take advantage of the internet
- with control
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Sequence learning
activities
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Allow students self-paced
tasks
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Establish manageable
group work
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Experience comprehensive
class discussions
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Conclusion
Of most value is not the technical skills
we incidentally teach but rather how we
are teaching and how we are training
our students to think about the
implementation of technology in their
own teaching
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