This reflective synopsis is an analysis about my teaching context which consists of being a lecturer within a Tertiary Institution by delivering the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing Program for the School of Nursing and Midwifery. The following video demonstrates my reflection upon how teaching and learning has changed over the years and how as an institution we deliver distance education by using digital technology. The challenge for lecturer's today is to engage students within their courses by meeting the students in their learning spaces.
So what is E-learning? E-learning is about using electronic technology to deliver course content for teaching and learning purposes. During this course we have learnt about pedagogy and how this can be applied within my teaching context. In addition, I have analysed excellent teaching practices that I have adopted as part of my personal teaching pedagogy. Teaching today using 21st Century Technology requires students to adopt addition skills. These thoughts have been capture within my blog postings called personal pedagogies.
Even though I am a lecturer, I still an active practitioner within the Nursing Industry. On Saturday, I was working within a Health Facility and I had the opportunity to work alongside a student. The student couldn't answer my questions of linking theory to practice, so I encouraged the student to Google the information. After lunch, I asked the student what she found out and we then had an excellent facilitation session. It was interesting to watch Punja Mishra's famous quote about "for facts go to Google, for wisdom come to me". As a lecturer or a facilitator it is my job to assist students to join the dots between theory and practice.
So what are the affordances for the following online spaces. These online spaces are Wikis and Blogs. I am confident that I can incorporate Blogs within my teaching practice. During this course I have learnt about Wikis and have demonstrated and practice using them. However, I am still considering how I can incorporate this technology within my courses besides just using a Wiki as a tool to display blog addresses.
As for the affordances for still images and video's - personally, I use these digital media all the time within my teaching practice. However, one thing that I have learnt within this course and discovered about the interaction between course content, pedagogy and technology which is known as the TPack. This information has changed my teaching practices as I was basing my courses around technology instead of compiling essential course content, then adding pedagogy followed by technology. All three areas need to interact for effective learning to occur for my students.
So how can I implement what I have learnt during this course. I believe as a lecturer you should scaffold your students learning. This can be achieved by setting your students engagement activities every week. This is often known as constructivism learning. Some of the guiding principles of constructivism pedagogy can aid students learning by using Web 2.0 technology. Basically, students learn by experimenting and constructing their own knowledge about course content. This had been demonstrated via this assignment - which is a very clever way of engaging students and building positive learning experiences.
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