Week 2

This week we discussed knowledge as a noun and a verb. We also discussed the Key Competencies, He Tikanga Whakaaro and 21st Century skills.

Learning reflection and thoughts

Thinking forward to the assignments I think we self and the two teachers from my school) need to have a chat with the principal to discuss our ideas and to see if we have his support for implementing some of our ideas.

I was interested in the connection between key competencies the He Tkanga Whakaaro and how these work alongside 21st century learning.

The group I was working in was focusing on collaboration and it was fascinating to see how when discussing this we automatically started discussing big collaboration of swapping classes and offering different sub topics for an inquiry for students to choose what they wanted to investigate etc. when I read the article Voogt and Roblin (2010) it made me think more of the collaboration within the classroom of working in a group to work towards a concept, design, product. It made me think that the focus of the process is the key for effective collaboration rather than the outcome. Is that the focus for our video tasks each week if so I need to stop stressing about the finished product and focus on supporting others through developing their technology skills through the collaborative process.

Reflection on the task

We completed a collaborative video task focusing on 21st century learning - collaboration. It was interesting to see everyone in the group fall into specific roles such as script writer, creative ideas and digital construction. I was the digital person again like last week. However form last weeks reflection I was conscious of not doing it all and not letting others learn. Therefore tonight I ensured I didn’t do all of the camera work but I did end up doing all of the editing again. I think the pressure of the time constraint made me feel pressure to try and get it done. I think if we are doing more video tasks I need to try and do a different role and support if needed. I know I always jump to the tech role as that is where I feel comfortable. I am not confident with my creative ideas and I REALLY do not like being on camera.

Voogt, J. & Roblin, N. (2010). 21st Century Skills Discussion paper. University of Twente. Retrieved from http://opite.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/61995295/White%20Paper%2021stCS_Final_ENG_def2.pdf