Week 2 Reflection

As I always say and tell myself and others, "We live and learn", "Never too old to learn." It never occurred to me that searching for information on the internet would be an important topic to discuss. Now after many years of using the internet in nearly everything and every day, I learn how to use the net for searching professionally this time. The week starts by learning ABCD, this time it is not the alphabet, it is The A.B.C.D. method of Writing Objectives. I liked the two quotes,

Jones, 1997 – "Clear objectives can help the instructor design lessons that will be easier for the student to comprehend and the teacher to evaluate".

Lohr, no date – "A properly written objective tells you what specific knowledge, skill, or attitude is desired and what method of instruction and criteria for learner achievement are required."

This is one of the most important things of what we have been learning at the AUC since I started my studies their (The Can-dos of the students and teachers objectives of each task assigned.)

The idea of deciding Audience, Behavior, Condition and Degree of your learners before you start in this link , http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/objectives/writingobjectives/ , is essential.

Also, Typical Problems Encountered When Writing Objectives and the idea of Blooms taxonomy has inspired me a lot when thinking of objectives of my tasks in my classes.

The part I liked a lot was this page

http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/classifications.html

About Classifying Objectives. According to Bloom's Taxonomy, there are six levels of learning are in the classification. The lowest level is remembering. The remembering level is followed by five increasingly difficult levels of mental abilities: understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating (the highest level).

To my disappointment, I discovered that in a lot of Egyptian schools we deal with remembering which is the lowest level and when we feel we did something great we move a step up toward understanding and applying, thus, neglecting and even not encouraging creativity.  Hopefully in the future, I am going to reconsider that to reach creating which is the highest level.

 The next great think that I have learned is how to search the net in the right way. "Hey, Mr. GOOGLE, you are not my main and only way to search anymore! :)" I said to myself. There are better ways to do that.

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Here is the way to do things.  You can "Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need", to decide as they said it. I love this website which gave me ideas that are useful to me and to my students. There are many other websites for searching other than Google.

Also the idea of thinking about my project, to think about a class that would benefit from making a technology-inspired change, and to describe my students and class setting now and how it will be later discussing  the technology I and my students have access to now, both in and outside of school and thinking of how it will be later has inspired a lot of ideas later which are ……..

Let it be a surprise ….

Next episode … :) I wish you all the best in life.