Digital and Collaborative Teaching and Learning - Reflection on my own practice
Undertaking this course has allowed me to critically evaluate the way I teach and the opportunities I provide my students to develop digital and collaborative skills. As I currently teach in a year one classroom I have found that a lot of the pedagogical ideas associated with digital and collaborative learning approaches appear, at first, to not fit within this setting. However closer inspection and evaluation has led me to feel that, although we do not necessarily explicitly use these skills and approaches, the foundation skills necessary for them are being laid through our daily interactions and instruction. I am going to discuss my thoughts and observations on collaboration, learning styles, cultural sustainability and the use of digital practices within my own teaching. COLLABORATION The skills required to successfully collaborate are so critical in our modern world that it is important that the foundations for these skills are set right from when students start at school. Collabor...