Reflecting: This weeks task was to add to the mobile phones wiki which is related to de Bono's six thinking hats. The six thinking hats is something that I was vaguely familiar with beforehand but this task still seemed daunting to me. How am I supposed to relate de Bono's genius to what I think about mobile phones in education?
I attempted to begin the task multiple times, however I was still struggling with finalising my ideas and opinions. After attending class on Thursday everything became more clear and I grasped a better understanding of what was expected in the task. In class, we had discussions on mobile phones in education with the use of de Bono's six thinking hats; everyone voiced their ideas and opinions helping me so much. I was able to complete the wiki task. I now agree with the edited work of Ewing, Lowrie and Higgs (2010, p. 13) when they say that 'communication is a dynamic process that individuals use to exchange ideas, relate experience, make sense of situations or convey meaning...' In this particular situation, I do not believe that I would have adequately completed the task without communicating with other learning managers and networking ideas. The wiki that we have all been contributing to is a great example of our networking and sharing of ideas in this course.
So far in this course I have achieved so much, I have learnt the importance of keeping up with technology and ICT's, especially as a LM who will be teaching learners of the 21st century. I have gained understandings of E tools and how they are related to education. As I am going through my journey I can relate ideas, theories and the use of ICT's to how they will be useful and beneficial in my classroom.
Using mobile phones, for example, we came up with multiple advantages and disadvantages to using mobile phones in education. If mobile phones were to be included into classrooms it would transform learning, and they could, in some ways, support and facilitate learning, especially in certain activities and curriculum tasks. I believe that if mobile phones were to be used in education there would act as ways to enhance learners learning!
References
Ewing, R, Lowrie, T & Higgs, J (eds.) 2010, Teaching and communicating: rethinking professional
experiences, Oxford University Press, Australia.
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