Ashweni'sBlog

My two inquiry topics are: 1.How can I use digital technologies to motivate and engage learners? 2.How do I develop student agency in disengaged learners? How do the two chosen topics relate to issues in your professional practice? How can I use digital technologies to motivate and engage learners? Been teaching for many years I notice that I always have a big group of students in my class who are not motivated or lack engagement. This group of students have always worried and stressed me. No matter how hard I try to keep these students focused, it just doesn't work. Through Mindlab I came to know how digital technologies can motivate and engage students. "Digital Technologies present new opportunities for drawing out and leveraging students agency. One of the ways that technology accomplishes this by personalising the learning experience allowing students to work at their own pace and being responsive to individual needs, such as found in intelligent tutoring systems....

I have made lots of changes into my teaching practice after joining Mindlab. Not only I have implemented apps, edpuzzle, kahoot, imovie and  sculpt into my classroom but I have been trying to make learning personalised for my students using the 21st century skills of problem solving, collaboration, knowledge construction, ICT, skilled communication and self-regulation  (ITL Research,2012) . According to Ministry of Education (2012, p.17) personalised learning means "differentiated provision to meet differentiated needs". Schools need to change in order to support learners to actively develop skills to survive in the future. Personalised learning makes learners feel that they are "co-investors in their own learning, helping them to develop motivation and high aspirations, and creating ongoing relationships and interactions that support learners to realise their aspirations" (MOE,2012, p.19). When you walk into my classroom you will see my students working in pairs o...

At my school we write our reflections on Interlead Appraisal Connector. Interlead is an online journal where you write your reflections and share with the people who you like to especially the people you  work with.  This is something that we started this year at our school. My first experience with Interlead was very frightening. I struggled to keep up with my journal  because of  time constraints. We had to reflect continuously on the Professional Developments we attend at school. Here is a snapshot of what interlead looks like. We can choose different template for different contexts, for example if I want to reflect about my team meeting I have a template for that and if I want to reflect on what I learnt by observing a colleague, I have a template for that. For every journal we write we have to mark it against the 12 teacher registration criterias to show which ones my learning relates to . Each template is guided by questions like, what am I currently doing i...