Week3 - Reflection on ICT as Mind tools [Blog]

ICT as Mind tools [Blog]
Definition of Mindtools are ICT tools that engage users to facilitate critical thinking and higher order learning. These tools include concept mapping, visualizations, live conversation and computer mediated conferences.
- jonassen (2000)

What is reflective practice?
Reflect on your teaching style
Analyze ideals and challenges
Compare your practice with those of experienced
Incorporate reflection into next practice
A critical process in refining skills and professional development
Also known as "Reflection-in-action"

What is a Blog ?
Overview of Web 2.0 Technologies
Blog a short form of weblog is the term used to describe web site that maintain an ongoing personal information
It can be a diary of events, commentary and link to other web sites
Can be used to reflect one's experience and share with others
Solicit comments from others through postings

Use of Blog for reflective practice :
Every one he have his reflection about something like the teacher he can put his reflection about the subject he teaching and how he teach in class and let other give they opinions.
Share and learn from other interested individuals

Http://professorjournal.blogspot.com

Use of blog in the classroom :
The student can use the blog as project and share it with the student, write the school journal and let the parent joint and the other to participate with school, share the answer for equations, diffusion for lecturers.

How to blog?
Start with small
Use readily available templates
Practice
Think it through and make changes where necessary

Week2 - Role of ICT in Education; Evaluating and using information from the internet

Tutor, Tutee, Tools

Tutor :
It’s the software it can help the student to learn . like the math software reading skills , games, tutorials, simulation.
Software like :

MS Office Tutorial :
http://www.blogger.com/www.baycongroup.com/word2007/01_word2007.html

Flight Simulator :
Flight Simulator X

Encyclopedia:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/encarta/default.mspx

Tutee :
The learner teaches the computer using programming, authoring software, scripting, flash, dreamweaver.
Visual Basic, C#, VB script, MX Flash, Dreamweaver

How I use the computer in classroom?
I start using the PowerPoint with the projector to give the student the point witch will discuss then let the student to search for information about this point in the internet after that we discuss this information. Some of student give this information as presentation and other gives as file.

Computer and Tools:
Product Tools:
The users ability can be extend through this software :

Ms office:
http://office.microsoft.com/ar-sa/default.aspx

Database management :
http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/manager

Panting and Drawing :
Paint, Photoshop

Internet searching:

Mind Tools :
Is the software that used by student to accomplish a set task … organizing their thoughts and ideas.
Multimedia & Game Making, Graphics & Animation, Programming.
The student need to think in deep in the task and make the connection between the objects and thinks as creativities.
http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/default.htm


Evaluating and Using information from the internet

What type of information available in the internet ?
- Digital books
- Web pages
- Electronic articles
- Scientific journals
- News papers
- Conferences papers
- Reports, videos, blogs….

How we can evaluate the information on internet for its credibility ?

Activity :
discuss in groups and report to the class the results. http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

Criteria based in various sources:

Who is the author ?
Credible source
Accuracy of information
Purpose of publication
Up to date material
Provide a balanced viewpoint

Checking online sources
Online bookshttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

How can credit information that taken form the internet ?
- The information are original or copied form internet or other resource. - Referencing sources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

Comment:
Most people thy thought the links its good evaluation for the information which is available in the web but I thought its not like that. Because this links are pages in web which is in server. This server it can be same server you use or it could not. You can evaluate the web if the server work or you can access to it but if the server not working or you cant access to it then the information belong to it can not be evaluated. and this what happen most the time you evaluate the web page after that you cant find the links you evaluated by it. This thinks scare me because we well lose all the information which we have if we trusted in the technology and if we put the all what we have in this technology and suddenly if sum think happen for this technology we lose all the data which we have. The question is how we can replace data back if we forget it ?

To solve this:
We should have server can not be stop or working all the time forever . ( this id imposable). The other thinks we can do is not using one server only but we use more than one server to put the same page of information. ( this well solve the have of problems but it make the search for the information more complicated and it need more environments).

Week1 - ICT

What is ICT ?
If you have the information and you want share this information what you will do ?
Did you use the Communication device like Phone, Radio, TV,... ?
Did you use the Technology like computer , network, satellite system, ...?

Information Communication Technology .
If we have data and we do processing in it by searching or research, analyzing or any type of processing to get information form this data it’s call Information.

If we share the information by individual or group of people that’s mean we communicate the information.

The technology is using of hardware of software to do something.

ICT is sharing the information with the people by using communication device like telephone, tv, computer, network hardware, satellite system, software, Internet, and so on. By using this technology we can do videoconference and distance learning.
Aim is to share the information and learn through the information, using the technology as a vehicle or tool. ( ref. Effective Learning Through ICT, page week2/1)

Can we say the news paper and magazines are ICT ?
No. The news paper and magazines are using the technology for designing the pages not for communicate. But there is electronic news and magazine which use the Internet for share the information.

It’s important to have technology ?
Yes. But its not everything, the most important is to us this technology in proper way.

Links :
This link give more information about the what is ICT and give examples for it.
http://tutor2u.net/business/ict/intro_what_is_ict.htm

Online networks for Australia's educators:
edna is a network of the education and training community. It includes government and non-government schooling systems.
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/ictresearch

web resource capturing and sharing the ICT and eLearning expertise in cutting edge schools and learning centers around the world.
http://www.ict-register.net/