Continuing on the idea of topic five I really enjoyed the part of the lecture when we discussed sharing lesson plans and idea's via the Internet because I thought it correlated nicely with task two as www.teachertube.com is a platform where teachers can upload, download and view other teachers lesson plans and strategic ideas much like what we are trying to create in task two. This also came really handy for my 'teaching tool box' which I have been told to create in another unit so when I graduate I will have a whole bunch of ideas and lesson plans, I will be organised and ready to go! I also found there was a lot of emphasis in this weeks lecture about how we need to make children smarter, how every body needs to be a genius. It was clear in the lecture that over the past ten years the worlds education system has been bombarded with hundreds of ideas of how we can make everyone smarter. For example: children not wearing shoes in class, only having three walls in your classroom, giving your children a 'memory pill' which is capable of "turning ordinary students into honours graduates" and my personal favourite, heated underwear will make our students smarter and more hard working...seriously? What ever happened to the idea that everyone learns differently and we must cater to that learner specifically? "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" Albert Einstein.
Moving through task two, it is finally making more sense to me. The lecture clashes with another tutorial of mine so I miss out on the second half and do not get to watch the first half until after the tutorial so you can imagine my struggle. when my seating group and I first started discussing task two the girls I sit with were bouncing ideas off each other, starting to look for there social media sites and there I was confused as a bat during the day time! Luckily my group and I use our tutorial time to brainstorm, collaborate and compare because it was truly all from them that I learnt most of the criteria for task two. I have currently found my topic which is fitness, made my social media page as talked about in my last blog and I have just created a power point on my 'how to' instructions. I seriously thought that the 'how to' part would be a breeze. I found it so time consuming! Remembering that I would have an actual peer following my instructions made me so nervous, I did not want to miss one thing out or go in the wrong direction so my poor boyfriend became my human guinea pig! I had him on the phone as I relayed my instructions to see if they were correct and found that they were not because I had done the screen shots from when I was already signed in, which meant I had to create a whole new account purely to take my screen shots. Never the less, my guinea pig of a boyfriend finally made it to my page on Google + and my instructions were correct...finally!
At the beginning of this week my 'teaching tool box' had one lesson plan in it that I used while I was on practicum last year, now because of task two and this weeks lecture on Teacher Tube I have linked so many ideas up with ACARA codes which made for great lesson plans and ideas. Although my graduation date is so far away I have found this unit in particular has contributed a lot to my 'teaching tool box' and will set me up not only for when I become a teacher but also on my pre-service practicums. As bizarre and stupid this may sound, I truly did not think to scale the Internet for lesson ideas, yet there have been so many that I can alter and personalize to cater for different years and different strands. For once, I love the Internet!
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