Stephen Robey
Category Archives: Enhanced Learning in Professional Contexts
Prepare to Engage
Over the last four journal entries I have investigated how to engage (or critically engage as I discovered) and educate students using ICT. I have looked at student engagement in online discussions, gaming, and Wiki’s. In an act of shameless self promotion, I have even … Continue reading
Tricky Wiki’s
If you had the chance to design one of your exam questions would you take it? I would think that most people would emphatically answer ‘yes’. Now ask yourself the same question knowing that it involved having to use a … Continue reading
Time to Dust off the Atari (this title won with 36% of the votes)
Gaming is a great way to engage and educate your students. Amongst other positives, gaming allows students to test their limits in a safe environment, promotes healthy competition, and improves student motivation (Wide Open Doors 2011). And let’s face it, most kids … Continue reading
Critical Engagement in Online Discussions
Now that I know that I should encourage students to have a critical engagement with ICT, I want to find out more about how to achieve this. An article by Barbara Monroe called “Fostering Critical Engagement in Online Discussion” provided … Continue reading
It’s Critical to Engage
Something that has been emphasised by all of our Dip Ed lecturers is that if students disengaged they are not effective learners. With this in mind, the key question to me is: how can you engage and educate students using … Continue reading
Free Online IWB Resources
Over the last four journal entries I have explored a number of issues relating to IWB’s including: how they can improve learning outcomes and effect pedagogy; how to make IWB’s actually interactive; the limitations of IWB’s; and, the professional development … Continue reading
IWB Professional Development
Now that you have an IWB in your classroom you can sit back and watch student results improve right? Well, not quite. As with any new technology, teachers have to receive professional development in order to use IWB’s effectively. As … Continue reading
Limitations of IWB’s
For all the benefits of IWB’s they are not without their limitations. One of the recurring issues I have found in the literature is their expense (Friedman 2010, pg. 1, Northcote et al. 2010, pg. 496). The use of an … Continue reading
Making IWB’s Interactive
In my first ICT journal entry I highlighted the incredible possibilities of IWB’s as an educational tool. However, it seems that their potential can be limited depending on exactly how they are used. Just because they have the word ‘interactive’ … Continue reading
Interactive Whiteboards and Education
Following a demonstration of an electronic whiteboard (IWB) in one of my tutorials I decided to focus the entries for topic 1 of my ICT journal on the use of IWB’s in education. From the literature I have read, IWB’s … Continue reading
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