Session+2


 * Creating Collaborative Pedagogy using read/write technologies**

To self-evaluate and peer evaluate common classroom activities
 * OBJECTIVE :**

To re-think 'taxonomies' in learning activities
 * PURPOSE:**


 * How do students see you classroom?**

Before immersing students in 'new tools' - take the time to discuss and get students to talk about what they think will be effective 'normal' activities. Don't expect them to give you a road map of what 'tools' they want or to for them to understand too much about how they learn just yet.


 * DISCUSSION**


 * 1) What activities do you 'normally' do in the ICT classroom?
 * 2) Which activities are the most interesting or challenging?
 * 3) Which activities are boring and too easy?

These three questions will give you an insight into how your students see their classroom (and in turn, their learning).

**Activity:** **THINK, PAIR, SHARE

What does learning look like to them?** This activity is designed to demonstrate how ICT is used over multiple subjects, classrooms and schools. Teachers use the THINK, PAIR, SHARE strategy.


 * Write down things that you (students) do or use when learning in an ICT classroom. (This is a solo activity) **THINK (5 mins)**

Be prepared for them to say: Google, the internet, things the teacher tells us, worksheets, photocopies, text books, videos.

Here is a common list of 10 things that teachers do in ICT classroom. This list is compiled from what 9th grade students identified in 2008 as 'things they do in the ICT classroom'.


 * **PAIR** with someone else and compare your individual lists to the table below. **(10 mins)**


 * SPECIFICALLY** reflect on each and say **WHY** the put each activity into **Interesting and Challenging** or **Too Easy or Boring**
 * || Activity || Interesting/Challenging || Too Easy/Boring || ICTs Used ||
 * 1 || Googling/Searching ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 2 || 'Doing' a Worksheet ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3 || Text Book Exercises ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 4 || Making/Doing ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 5 || Worksheet Completion ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 6 || Presenting ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 7 || Discussion ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 8 || Listening to teacher ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 9 || Using an application (mastery) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10 || Note taking/copying ||  ||   ||   ||

At the end of 10 minutes - post your chart on the wall. Spend a few minutes in your pairs walking around the room and looking at the other charts.

Get together with a couple of other groups and discuss what you all wrote and thought about the learning activities.


 * Justify** - **by SHARING** - which activity you thought was the most interesting and challenging and which was the easiest or most boring.