Course Reflection & Feedback

With the combination of the Web 2.0 resources and the iLE@RN model, E-Learning will always be up to date, interesting for the students and an effective method to ensure students are always meeting their learning outcomes.

Through using the iLEARN model teachers are helping students focus on a multitude of skills as displayed above and through constantly revisiting the three questions in the other diagram teachers are able to keep their ICT tools and programs up to date.

Blooms Taxonomy is a model which is very helpful when planning the curriculum and it has been so for quite sometime. This is due to the fact that it takes into account the different levels of thinking which helps when constructing activities for the students to complete in class or at home. It gives all teachers something concrete to look at when preparing the curriculum or an assessment for the students.

Blooms Taxonomy is certainly a theory that needs to be considered when preparing activities for the students, because even though students may be completing work using ICT tools or programs, amongst those students are still lower order and higher order thinkers and each must be accounted for, especially within unstreamed classrooms.

The Blooms Taxonomy Revised Theory takes into account a number of words associated with technology and links these words to each level of thinking. This will obviously help prolong the use of such a successful model and assist teachers to use the model effectively when preparing ICT assessments or activities.

The Web 2.0 course has been a big eye opener for me! I have learnt so much from this course and it has given me scope for new ideas and activities that I will certainly incorporate into my classroom.

Some of the tools we used such as blogging, I had an idea what it was, but I never bothered to find out about it as I never thought I would use it, and thus this course has brought to my attention the power of a blog in the classroom and how it effective it can be.

Furthermore, tools such as glogster, podcasting and bubbl.us etc all have the potential to be great learning tools as they stimulate the students and promote interest in a topic. This can obviously help teachers achieve each of the learning outcomes more efficiently.