6 May 2012

“Goodbye teacher “was a lecture presented to us by Jan Herrington which was extremely helpful in assisting us with the task of establishing an authentic learning environment.

When designing an authentic learning environment we have to consider what the student does, how are they using the technology, how long does it take, collaboration, final product and is there a show case.  We have tried to showcase all these elements in the wikispace resource. With the children using multimeia as a presentation tool it should engage  them and as a team the students have to create the presention which allows them to collaboarate and be creative. I think this is giving our group the ability to to cover different learning styles too.

Feeling excited and releived to be on the right track with this assignment as at first we were questioning ourselves but after some lectures and discussions with Jenni feel we are well on our way to presenting a really great sharable resouce.

Rupert Murdoch was quoted as saying let’s bring classrooms into the 21st century. You need to centre the learning around the learner using technology to facilitate the authentic learning experience. Bring the task to a real life experience through the use of technology.