This week I have tried for the first time some search engines from noodletools.com specialized according to such criteria like: type of information, timeliness, special search requirements, etc. Well, I think I will check the rest in the future but for now education.iseek.com and americanrethoric.com proved to be reliable, at least in my case.
Though I am not still sure about the usefulness of using Boolean operators.
If you can suggest something related to them from your experience I would be very grateful.
You may have wondered about the connection between the contents of this post and its title. Well, it refers to something I have found while searching information on the ABCD format learning objectives.It is a file named writinglearningobjectives.pdf that you can download from http://www.unb.ca/ .
The authors Dorothy MacKeracher and Peter Gross stress the importance of stating clearly objectives by making this wonderful comparison: "They (the objectives) help the instructor stay on topic and avoid wandering down the garden path to watch the butterflies when harvesting peas was the objective.Watching butterflies is a nice break but detracts from achieving planned outcomes."
That is the main thing to remember about objectives in my opinion: they must be clear, observable and measurable.
The authors Dorothy MacKeracher and Peter Gross stress the importance of stating clearly objectives by making this wonderful comparison: "They (the objectives) help the instructor stay on topic and avoid wandering down the garden path to watch the butterflies when harvesting peas was the objective.Watching butterflies is a nice break but detracts from achieving planned outcomes."
That is the main thing to remember about objectives in my opinion: they must be clear, observable and measurable.
Finally, the beginning of this week has been a moment to think well and decide on a project that I am going to develop and implement in my teaching in order to make a change using technology. I thought of collaborating on a simple project related to culture, youth's life and interests with a school from a different country by working together on a joint class blog. I chose the blog because I thought it had a great potential that would allow me to focus on different communicative skills. Also I hope that my students who are shy to speak in class will feel free to express themselves and they will be more responsible for what they publish.
That is all so far. Feel free to comment!
Hello Ion.
ReplyDelete! Nice posting Blog! It's funny I see that I am not the only one that didn’t know how to use the noodletools sites. and I agree on the part you mention that blogs would help shy students because when they have to interact they don’t have to see their faces and eventually it helps them to be themselves.
Best regards.
Alex.
Hi Ion,
ReplyDeleteGREAT quote! Love it!
Celeste
Dear Ion.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for these comments on Week 2: I wish I had that much as you did!
Well, I like the image used to stress the importance of clearly formulating our objectives.
soebody said on Nicenet that we teachers have sometimes taken things like prearing good objectives for granted, and I definitely think that our different post confirmed the fact
Thank you again, and see you next week
Daouda, Burkina Faso
Nice post, Ion! I liked the title and the picture. The quote is fascinating. As you said, the objectives must be "clear, observable and measurable". Otherwise they will change the direction of growth in learning.
ReplyDeleteDear Ion! I also wish to have as soon possible our clasess that usually starts in our countries from September. I wish to "collect" audio and video information from the classes and try the project that we will create in action with my group of students. I like your way of posting with wonderful symbols that have a great meaning! It's wonderful to seea clock with your time. It looks so nice! Good luck in your blogging and posting so creative work! With the best,Natalia
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