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Experiences and feelings in week 4
Digital Literacy
DaVinci teaching and learning with DigcompEdu framework
During the DaVinci teaching session, Dr. Lina's personal scaffolding reminded me of the empowering learners part of DigcompEdu, which is also the most important part of the six components. There are three components of "empowering learners" and I will explain them step-by-step (accessibility and inclusion, differentiation and personalization, and actively engaging learners).
Accessibility and inclusion
Differentiation and personalization (personalized scaffolding)
Actively engaging learners ( Guided project-based learning)
During the DaVinci learning, Dr. Lina utilized guided project-based learning (eg. requiring us to create one video as the project without constraints on the content ) to foster students' active and creative engagement. Additionally, there are no limitations on the content of our video, which allows students to actively engage with editing the videos because students can edit videos according to their interest, and in the process, the point of actively engaging learners was successfully achieved through activate students' interest as well as curiosity. (I am also interested in such lessons😊) What's more, the PBL used in DaVinci learning sessions helps students to actively participate in complex or real-world projects to develop and apply the knowledge they learned, which further enhances their deeper comprehension and information retention. According to Thomas (2000), the effectiveness of PBL was demonstrated through his experiments such as increased engagement, deeper comprehension, and retention of knowledge.Conclusion
Week4 Reflection
After that, Dr. Lina explained evidence-based teaching strategies, especially for the top six teaching strategies including cooperative learning, interactive teaching, graphic organizer, reciprocal teaching, assessment for learning, and manipulative (the order is based on the ranking). I felt excited and interested because I could acquire more refreshing knowledge but I also felt a sense of anxiety as I met new groupmates according to the Jigsaw learning strategy. Then we were assigned different work and new groups. Actually, there was nothing to worry about because all of my groupmates were awfully friendly, and we had a hot discussion on assessment for learning. When it came to group presentation in the tutorial session, I was totally at a loss because I joined another group (that group had not enough people and my m classmate called me to join...). In that case, I had to join two group presentations but I felt delighted because I could practice my spoken English which is a weakness for me. Surprisingly, we all did well (I meant two groups both performed perfectly).
Interactive teaching VS cooperative teaching
When I make the comparison between the original curriculum that Dr. Lina designed based on the interactive teaching strategy and the tutorial this week that solely emphasizes cooperative learning through hands-on activities, I find that interactive teaching is more engaging, intriguing, and informative for three reasons including active learning, immediate feedback, and critical thinking (If our class applied interactive teaching and we had used these slides for this tutorial, I thought most students could actively participate in discussion and our comprehension of the top six teaching strategies would be enhanced as well).
Active learning
Immediate feedback
Critical thinking
Conclusion
Jigsaw
Previous experience with Jigsaw
conducted by Dr. Chu. Previously, we were provided with pre-reading and divided into 6 groups with different numbers from 1 to 6, If I did not remember correctly. For example, If I was in group 1, all of my groupmates were labeled with 1. When reassigning groups, each group contained numbers from 1 to 6. This was the first experience of the lecture based on Jigsaw). Eventually, Dr. Lina clearly explained it to us, and we all started our Jigsaw group activity.
Constructivism and MKO
knowledgeable others in our group through interactions, which further enhance comprehension.
Social Identity theory
relations. Henri & John (2004) claimed that social identity theory created inclusive classroom climates of respecting and celebrating diverse identities to enhance students' sense of belonging. Subsequently, we should respect each other to create a friendly environment for further development.
Multimodality
Week 3 Reflection
Week 2 Reflection
While in the tutorial, we were firstly divided into various groups and we meticulously learned the procedures of creating a blog through Dr. Lina's detailed demonstration for our assignment. To further acquire all-sides comprehension of reflective writing, we delved into reflective writing especially for the 5Rs model through Dr. Lina's explanation. We learned what the meaning of the 5Rs model is and what we were required to write the reflective writing according to the 5Rs model.
In the beginning, I noticed the commons between the 5Rs model and the DIEP model that we learned before in the other modules, which confused me at that time. As a result, I asked Dr. Lina to discuss the two different models after the tutorial and I left without concerns.During both sessions, I felt a sense of anxiety and fear because it was the first lecture of this module this semester and I had never seen new classmates before. The unknown situations referring to the course and classmates led to such negative feelings. Subsequently, I felt passionately welcomed. I thought I felt that way because the self-introduction session made the relationship between my classmates and me closer as well as made the environment more friendly than before. Afterward, I no longer felt anxious and scared as Dr. Lina clearly explained the overview of the course, blogger, and reflective writing based on the 5Rs model. Finally, I was unhesitant to say that I was ready and confident for the coming classes.
Furthermore, the group that we have during the tutorial is associated with Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. Previously, we all would like to form a group with classmates who have relatively higher ability and it caused a situation where students with high ability preferred to sit together as well as form a group when needed. Unlike the group chosen by ourselves, the groups are randomly assigned which causes group members with mixed abilities. I can understand it and link it to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, students master problem-solving strategies through cooperative interactions with high-performing students and internalize that information to guide their performance. It is demonstrated by Saleth et al. (2007) that, building collaboration in mixed-ability groups can enhance students with average ability in verbal communication, learning, and motivation. Likewise, this is also linked to students' zone of proximal development (ZPD) and scaffolding because, in the group with mixed ability, students with lower ability can achieve higher achievements under the scaffolding of students with higher ability. Similarly, the group is also related to one concept called More Knowledgeable Other (MKO), where students with high ability can help students with low ability. This can be seen through group discussion as it requires building consensus and sharing ideas and if I consider it from our module convenor's perspective as well as imagining I was the lecturer, is necessary to utilize the concept and theory because it successfully improves comprehension of students which is an important process according to Bloom's hierarchical taxonomy of cognitive domains.
Lastly, the reflective writing based on the 5Rs model reminds me of the previous reflective writing based on the DIEP model. Formerly, I used the DIEP model to write reflective writing and after the tutorial, I noticed commons and differences between the DIEP model and the 5Rs model. From my perspective, both focused on gaining deep insights that go beyond incidents and making connections between incidents and theories or experiences to make effective reflections. However, there are some differences as well. Bain et al. (2002) argued that the 5Rs emphasize understanding what is involved in serious reflections and enhancing the ability to self-assess while Boud et al. (1985) highlighted the significance and future action for the DIEP model. For the differences between the two reflective models, If I were the lecturer, I would let students choose proper reflective models according to their different situations because it depends on what the requirements are when writing reflections (someone prefers actual plans for the future while someone prefers analyzing). Based on the previous reflections, I have learned the importance of educational theories and appropriately apply these theories when teaching in the future. What's more, I hope to incorporate some accommodations for students with special educational needs (SEN) because most teachers will not take these students into account when designing the curriculum and teaching during the class. Moreover, limited implements and interventions were delivered for students with SEN in middle and high school settings (DuPaul & Eckert, 1997; Dupaul et al., 2012). I will also establish more activities or methods using multiple educational theories to help students make further progress in all aspects as much as I can.Reference list:
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