Week 1 - The introduction

This is basically the beginning of my blogging life, as a child of the technological era, I've had a myspace (since abandoned), A facebook (mainly used for the apps), a twitter account (followed a few celebrities and gave up), an email/facebook/youtube enabled phone (unfortunately not an iphone) and I currently have two laptops and an ancient desktop to my name. Yet, this is my first blog, it is confusing how I can be so up to date with technology and yet not have a blog (until now). But really it is a time constraint thing, how many people really have the time to sit and blog? although there was a hyperlink about blogging on your phone, so if i get around to reading that I won't even have that as an excuse anymore. But now onto the point of the BLOG.

Week one!

The OMG! factor, how am i supposed to get through all of this content and still live? Not sure but I did manage it, here are some reflections.
Learning engagement theory.....
For students, this could mean less boredom in the classroom, make them feel included, wanted, and interested. Keeping our students interested is what we need to be doing, involving them in activities like open ended tasks. What a concept... let the children choose how to present a task to you. Depending on the age of your group you may need to supervise or you may be able to sit back and be surprised at the results in front of you.
For teachers, this could mean that we are interested, involved and even interacting with the assignments as works in progress or as finished results. Keeping us interested, now that's an idea I'd like to be part of and help grow.

Active learning....
Just goes to show everyone that we do need to be getting somewhere different to where we are today.

Learning Style.....
Personally, I am balanced as both an active and reflective learner, I'm definitely a sensing learner, I'm reasonably balanced with visual and verbal learning, but I am definitely a sequential learner. Knowing this about my students will help me to adjust my teaching style to each of them, and by being flexible in my teaching in this way my students, may not always be addressed personally and to their greatest strengths but they will be able to understand how other peoples strengths can bounce off their own creating a stronger piece of work.

Learning Theory....
Behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism - three theories which we can read and understand but in today's world are they really relevant? Will I be using these theories as a basis of my teachings? or will I be helping my students connect this topic to that topic to something we studied a year ago?

Keeping our students interacting, engaged and interested in what we are trying to help them learn is where we need to be heading. I hope that as a future teacher I can learn the best methods right here and right now to assist and guide this vital learning of the future of our world.... We shall just have to wait and see how I go