session 4 activity ---- the role of students in e-learning

In e-learning, students are encouraged to become independent learners. This only means that the learning experience does not solely depend on the instructor’s efforts. Certain amounts of preparation must be done, and certain amounts of effort must be exerted by the student in order to productively contribute to online learning. Primary to this is self-awareness. Students must become aware of themselves, their personal expectations, as well as the expectations of the instructor.

The roles of students are:

● Co-learner

● Content creators

– forum posts

– links and quotes from resources

– glossaries

– multimedia (video, audio)

● Peer mentors

● Co-teachers

● But most of all – Knowledge Creators (Learners)

Here is a video I recommend to see http://vimeo.com/7981069

In this video, school students from the Humboldt Gymnasium and the Nelson Mandela International School will be presenting and discussing the use of social media in the classroom.

In this clip, students talk about their role as co-creators of their own learning and helping education with using technology.

-Olivia

session 3 activity----How the teachers' role in change

Hello Groupmates，
I have read some articles about the role of the teachers. The articles may be helpful for you to understand the role of the teachers.


http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/teacherrole.html The website show some opinion of the teachers role from different people.
http://www.csun.edu/~meq75037/paper1.html This paper talks about the role of the teachers.


After read these articles I think teachers need to constantly update their professional knowledge and ability of structure students to learn knowledge, in that way teachers in the classroom should change from "teaching" to "study", concerning and respecting for each students, to achieve the goal of really "teaching" and "learning", not only for teachers themselves but also for students all. Actively participate in education training to improve themselves.
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By Andy

session 3 activity ----What is the role of a Teacher?.

In many teaching situations, the role of the teacher is that of facilitator of learning: leading discussions, asking open-ended questions, guiding process and task, and enabling active participation of learners and engagement with ideas. I choose a case from M2 database, http://sitesdatabase.cite.hku.hk/M2/case2/FR002/Index.asp?case_ID=FR002. In this case, the teacher appears as an adviser and a facilitator arranging the conditions of learning and encouraging pupils'self learning and exploration somewhere else that by way of his own mediation. However, the innovation of pedagogy requires the teacher to be able to adopt a range of roles and skills to suit specific situations.

There is an ongoing debate as to whether teachers are becoming redundant as a consequence of the use of ICT in education or whether a teacherless classroom is just a myth. In fact, new educational technologies do not curb the need for teachers but they call for a redefinition of their profession. The role of teachers has changed and continues to change from being an instructor to becoming a constructor, facilitator, coach, and creator of learning environments.

Many documents and articles identify reasons why the role of the teacher must change, such as:

● ICT will cause certain teaching resources to become obsolete. Localised resources such as overheads and chalkboards may no longer be necessary if all learners have access to the same networked resource on which the teacher is presenting information, especially if students are not physically at the same place.

● ICT may make some assessment methods redundant. Online tests, for example, provide the teacher with considerably more information than traditional multiple choice tests.

It is no longer sufficient for teachers to impart content knowledge, but they have to encourage higher levels of cognitive skills, promote information literacy, and nurture collaborative working practices. All these are greatly facilitated by the use of ICTs in teaching, however, a genuine and sophisticated integration is necessary and thus teacher training in this regard becomes crucial.

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From Harden and Crosby: The Twelve Roles of the Teacher , 2000

By Olivia

The RISAL Account

Name	RISAL Account
Andy Quan	Andy
Rose Wen	roseyuan
Olivia Zhan	Olivia
Makino Wang	Makino

Session 2 Activity----How Can Success In Innovation

Educational Innovation is to achieve certain goals of education and innovation in the field of education activities. Educational innovation contains the education system, educational structures, educational concepts, educational methods, educational tools, curriculum materials and educational time and space, involving almost all aspects of the field of education. With the development of human society, education has continuously engaged in innovation activities, such as the establishing of schools, textbooks appear, multi-media use, they are all part of the successful educational innovation. For several reasons, the education innovation often will meet some problems

Our discussion is around the problems based on the article which raised by Joyce Wycoff—“The Big Ten Innovation Killers and How to Keep Your Innovation System Alive and Well”. Though the article we summarize the several ways to address the problem about pedagogical practice.

1. What is culture, culture is a driving force to any organization. Without culture an organization just likes a sailing without direction, neither as education innovation. When an education institution does not know which culture it has, Innovation will never be happened in such education institutions. They will develop slow, even stop. Only if the culture will be established with clear direction.
2. Equipment is also a big factor about successful innovation, good innovation without hardware support is just useless. So the government and the leader of the school should put more money on the basic equipment, that with these equipment, innovation class can be come true.
3. Company should have a good Innovative leader, so as education organization. If the principle makes an innovation strategy, that the pedagogical innovation will be boost. If the principle is conservative, so he is the Stumbling block of innovation.
4. Teacher is the soul of the education, if the teacher does not know how to innovation, his class seems so boring that no students will like it. To address this situation the teacher should be trained with innovation course, such as ITE.
5. To have an idea management system that students and teacher can communication online or make course more simple. For example, once teacher want to have a task out of the classroom, he can use the management system to give suggests and guide the students to finish the task.

Overall, there also many other measures to make the innovation successful, but the important thing is the new innovation is whether suitable for the current education.
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By Group

Session 1 Activity----Identify one example from your group of an educational ICT-innovation and it's impact on practice

I think the use of multimedia in today's class is a kind of educational ICT-innovation. As developing student understanding through aligning media to intended learning outcomes, it can effectively capture the learners' attention, especially the younger ones, acting as a springboard for deeper learning as it prompts the learner to think outside the box, beyond a traditional textbook. It makes learning fun for all. It also encourages learners' interaction and fosters collaborative learning among students. Education changes from a two dimensional spoonfeeding transmission to a three dimensional dynamic process. When teachers teach lower primary students English grammar, they use an interactive CD with visuals to help them see how one word has multiple grammatical usage depending on where it appears in a sentence. The use of this medium excited the students and increased class participation as the teacher separate them into teams in the form of a competition. The students learn much quicker in a relaxed fun setting and the grammar concepts sunk in better as they see the variation of how one word can be used in different ways.

In conclusion, in the traditional way, the teacher is the leader.The students just listen to the teachers, take notes and answer questions. With the help of educational ICT-innovation such as computer and multimedia, the teacher is more like a superviser. The students have more chances to learn by themselves, search the internet for information and talk and share the ideas together. The students become the core of the class.

BY:Makino

Session 1 Activity----ICT-Innovation Example

Since the computer is invented, the Information and Communication Technology is then quickly emerged in a global level. Such kind of technology was first used in military. But now it has already been integrated into our daily lives. We make phone calls, search on the internet, meet each others via online videos,send message and so on. The world would be quite different without it.

In traditional, we only communicate with those people who are around us and get the information mainly from our teachers. The information we can get is so limited and may be out of the world tendency. When ICT is applied into education, it not only changes the way teacher teach, but also change the way students learn.Both teachers and students can get the newest information at any time in any places . Teachers' teaching methods are becoming various and interesting. Students can search what they curious about and get it immediately. ICT makes the learning more active. Take my experience on online learning as an example. I used to interested in watching videos online about open classes in other universities. This kind of technology various the way I learn. My learning resource is no longer limited in textbook or what the teachers know, but extended to other countries and other famous teachers that I can not meet. Even though sometimes we missed classing time by accident, we can still review it by videos or just watch it again and again. There is no more geographic or any time limits. It is a kind of innovation when compared to those traditional ways.

ICT not only innovate the technology, but also innovate our lives. So much examples can be found in our life. I believe that the ICT will develop to a great perspective just like we had never thought about its current situation in old days.

By Rose