Study at UBD 2008/2009: March 2009

Assignment on 12 March 2009, Thursday.

2 Question given by Dr leong from http://shbieict.wordpress.com

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

This is my answer:

A1.

February 5, 2009 at 6:29 am

Siti Aminah Maidin

My Name Siti Aminah Bte Maidin (08D0311)
My Partners are Roza and Hafizah.
My URL: http://meena407.blogspot.com/
Level: Year 1 - ICT Subject.
[Leong: Url of the other two blogs? Action plan? Your scibd file is password protected.]

February 5, 2009 at 6:50 am

GROUP YEAR 2

Level of Primary School Targeted - Year 2

Saralfandi bin Hj Besar (08D0304)
http://0270.blogspot.com

Siti Nur Amalina binti hj Morsidi (08D0307)
http://arybobo.blogspot.com

Suryani binti Sabtu (08D0316)
http://08D0316.blogspot.com

[Leong: Where are the action plan and project/curriculum documents.]

February 5, 2009 at 7:38 am

roza

ICT YEAR 1
Nurhafizah Syukriyati Asnawi 08D0303 - http://www.feezah.wordpress.com
Siti Rozasademawatty Rosli 08D0313 -http://www.resha20.blogspot.com
Siti Aminah Bte Maidin 08D0311 - http://meena407.blogspot.com

February 5, 2009 at 7:42 am

Dk Etty Marliny bte Pg Rosli

Dk Etty Marliny bte Pg Rosli (08D0308)
http://studydudes.blogspot.com

Group members:
Hajah Kartini Dewi bte Abdullah (08D0318)
http://msdewieducity.blogspot.com

Mohammad Alwie bin Mohd Salleh (08D0309)
http://finothescoots.blogspot.com

Target: Year 5

Action Plan: To enhance student learning in Art using ICT which involves more fine tuning in their creativity development and pupils’ participation in contributing and presenting their knowledge and skills using mainly Adobe Photoshop & Microsoft Publisher within the set time frame allocated.

Click on our blogs to refer our scheme of work.

February 5, 2009 at 7:52 am

roza

Siti Rozasademawatty Rosli 08D0313 - http://resha20.blogspot.com

February 5, 2009 at 7:52 am

zainon hj jaafar

Zainon Hj Jaafar http://zai268.blogspot.com
Mashitah Othman http://masche2118.blogspot.com
Mila Haziman Hj Lazim http://fat-taeki.blogspot.com
Year 4
DNT, Design and Technology:
Designing a free moving car which can carry a stuffed animal using recycled materials.

[Leong: Cannot read your project documents, do not use password. Every group member must post his/her own project documents.]

February 5, 2009 at 7:59 am

Normas Aziah Binti Ahmad Hizazi

ICT YEAR 1

Normas Aziah Binti Ahmad Hizazi
08D0312
http://missnormas.blogspot.com

Sarinah Binti Haji Budin
08D0310
http://sareen7978.blogspot.com

[Leong: Action plan?]

February 5, 2009 at 8:02 am

King, Soly and Norolhoda

ACTION PLAN

WHAT IS LOGO PROGRAMMING?

Logo is a high-level programming language noted for its ease of use and graphics capabilities designed as a tool for learning. Logo’s syntax is more understandable for novices. Logo is so easy that it can be understood by the 7 to 77 years old. Logo’s graphics language is called turtle graphics, which allows complex graphics images to be created with a minimum of coding. Its features - modularity, extensibility, interactivity, and flexibility -follow from this goal.

WHY?

Logo programming consists of Mathematical concepts of where pupils put what they have learnt into practice. The other reason to teach Logo programming is to entice and boost the pupils’ interest in Maths.

Apart from Maths, learning Logo will prepare the pupils with the basic preparations of facing the ICT era that they are now in. In addition, this will make them confident and competent when they go for higher learning.

The resources are available in almost every schools in Brunei but unfortunately its not fully utilized.

HOW?
• Introduce the pupils to the Logo environment
• Teach pupils the basic commands
• Ask pupils to create short programs
• Introduce the Turtle Roamer
• Implement the coding physically into the Turtle Roamer
• Teach pupils Super Procedures
• Give pupils group project – Create a manual on how to work with a Turtle Roamer and use the Turtle Roamer to work their Super Procedures.
• Review and evaluate each other’s manuals.

[Leong: Need to list urls of blogs of other project members and post the documents there on their blogs as well.]

February 5, 2009 at 8:04 am

Etty Marliny bte Pg Rosli

Dk Etty Marliny bte Pg Rosli (08D0308)
http://www.studydudes.blogspot.com

Hajah Kartini Dewi bte Abdullah (08D0318)
http://www.msdewieducity.blogspot.com

Mohammad Alwie bte Mohd Salleh (08D0309)
http://www.finothescoots.blogspot.com

Action Plan: To enhance and enrich pupils’ learning by fine tuning their creativity development and participating through the contribution of their acquired knowledge and skills mainly using Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Publisher within the set time frame allocated.

Refer to our blog to see the whole layout of the Scheme of Work.

[Leong: OK start the lessons with your classes and report on the pupils' progress. Everyone must also post all project documents in his/her blog.]
Also: Use scribd.com to store and link your files to your blogs.

February 8, 2009 at 9:27 am

shbieict

Hello Siti Aminah and group, we can’t read your scribd file. It’s password protected.

February 9, 2009 at 3:48 am

Soly

Year 3

Group Members:

King Siaw Chin (08D0318)
http://www.ps0270.blogspot.com (all work are to be compiled here)

Hjh Soliyaty Anggiyanie bte Hj Mornie (08D0306)
http://www.teachersoly.blogspot.com

Dyg Norolhoda bte Hj Awg Arpan (08D0302)
http://www.teachernorolscorner.blogspot.com

March 12, 2009 at 3:57 am

shbieict

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

March 12, 2009 at 6:50 am

zainon hj jaafar

For me, to initiate the pupils, I just show them what kind of activity will be done today, which is doing some activity on IWB with some participate from the pupils.
To sustain their activity in ICT class, I just give them hands on to do some activity on the computer by guiding them as a facilitator to them and support what they have doing.
For direct activity in ICT lesson, I just told the pupils to import some images from the Microsoft Words program and do any wording on it. As finish, they have to inform me so I can judge what they have done and do some correction with them.

March 12, 2009 at 6:59 am

Dk Etty Marliny bte Pg Rosli

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

ICT lesson is usually done by a group work activities which require students to share and work together in order to accomplish tasks given by teachers. This kind of learning activity, will help teachers evaluate the student’s collaborative and communication skill, leadership, time management, creativity, how they behave in classroom, on-time submission, and tidiness on what the group members have accomplished.

Student will also feel motivated when teacher present a good example and product which can be learned from the lesson. For example, by showing them a piece of art by using Microsoft Excel. Teacher can give intrinsic or extrinsic motivation to those best groups of student and upload their work on school or teacher’s blog. Another example is learning on how to make a bookmark by using Publisher. Their learning products (bookmarks) can be used as souvenirs to school’s visitor. Other than promoting their good work, it can also increase their motivation to learn more skills in order to improve and keep up their good works.

Some student studies subject material for the sake of learning. This is an example of intrinsic motivation because these students find studying enjoyable and learning new ideas as a reward itself. When students study for the sake of outside influences such as getting teacher and peer praise, acquiring a good grade or some other type of reinforcement that a teacher or peer might offer, they are said to be extrinsically motivated. The teacher could also encourage their student to select challenging tasks when given a choice. This will increase their self-esteem, confidence and develop their achievement motivation.

March 12, 2009 at 7:07 am

Siti Aminah (08D0311)

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

Teacher has to give direct feedback to pupils. First, teacher has to guide what pupils is learning. Secondly, teacher has to monitor for each pupils’ work and from here teacher can know what pupils’ problem and teachers can give some help to correct their mistake. From here pupils can learn from mistake and they will have initiative to learn more because the teacher will guide them when they have problem during their learning. It is also better for pupils to join some activities given by teacher, this will help them to foster their learning, have more skill, make them excited to learn and will make them more confident.

March 12, 2009 at 7:11 am

Normas Aziah Binti Ahmad Hizazi

Year 3

Topic: Mother’s Day Card (Using Microsoft Paint)

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

Initiate Activities: Show the students the product of a simple mother’s day card that available in the internet. The teacher ask the students, have they made any cards before using Microsoft Paint and what are the tools in Microsoft Paint they should use to create specific shapes for example rectangle, circles, lines , colors, text (to create the words) and etc.

Sustain and direct activities: The teacher have to mobile around and to make sure they are doing the right task. Some students tend to do different thing. For the first task is asking them, what shapes and the layouts they want the card to be for example oval, circle, rectangle, big, small and etc. The teacher also can tell them, what they can design in the card by drawing their own images or images they got from the files, for eg. the images of balloons, cakes and etc.

March 12, 2009 at 7:13 am

ALWIE

How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

to initiate the ICT lesson to motivate students the teacher must introduce or start off the lesson with a good and simple introduction. ICT sometimes can be difficult for some students to understand therefore, the intro of the lesson should be clear for the students so that theh will know what to expect for the lesson.
the content of the lesson should also be relevant and interesting so that they will be attentive to the lesson being taught and gain knowledges from it.

to sustain the ICT lesson, the teacher shold have good materials for the ICT scheme of work. this will be useful to keep the lesson going and to sustain the students interests to study using ICT. the activities and the resources should be interactive where the students have the chance to do hands on activities, where they can use the computer themselves as they are doing the instructions.

directing activities can be tricky espcially for an ICT lesson. students tend to be very excited touching the computer. it’s is hard for the teacher to monitor the students as they are mostly covered by the monitors. so one of the good ways to direct them is by holding their attention and listen and look at what are you doing at that time. to direct the activities, again the resources must be relevant and the content must be enough and interesting.

March 12, 2009 at 7:13 am

Normas Aziah Binti Ahmad Hizazi

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

Year 3: Typing short composition (Microsoft Office 2007)
As usual, for ICT lesson, the students grouped in pairs. This is basically by giving them tests during the lesson, just to monitor do they know how to use the basic tools in Microsoft word (for example, changing the font type, size and colors). In words 2007, the interface is totally different from the normal MS Words they used before which is MS Words 2003.
For each group, there will be a paper for the test given and which they have to follow all the instructions, for example :

Topic: My Father
1. Change the font into Comic San Ms and the font size into 14.
2. Align the title to the center.
3. Start typing your composition and at least eight sentences.
4. Save your work into My Documents.

Once they read all the instructions, they should be plan and discuss to each other, how to do all the instructions. The teacher have to be monitoring and mobile around the class to make sure they do the right thing. Common mistake is the name and the name of the place should be start with capital letter. So, the teacher have to remind the students, by asking them, the name should be typing using capital letter. Then, they have to discuss to each other, how to create the capital letter. From the discussion, they will be learning new things and start to modify their mistakes. Once they have done, they haveto save their work.

March 12, 2009 at 7:14 am

Dk Etty Marliny bte Pg Rosli

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

Teachers often motivate students by helping them develop an expectancy that a benefit will occur as a result of their engagement in a teaching and learning instructional experience. Motivation is concerned with the factors that stimulate or hinder the desire to engage in any sort of behaviourism.

The versatile teacher should discuss on the aspects of the student’s assignment and class work and encouraging them to develop and use their current skills in completing their task or assignment which interest the students. For an example, student’s current knowledge is how to draw using the Paint Tool Program. Next teacher can bond their previous knowledge and skill with the new knowledge which is currently learned. Say for an example, Adobe Photoshop. Teacher could show them that simple drawing created previously by Paint Tool Program can be modified into more graphic and meaningful arts. This can be done using Adobe Photoshop. Show them what they could do and let the student develop their own interest to help them improve their self regulated learning in ICT. Moreover, teacher can also promote and use student’s work as a backdrop during school’s functions. Or teacher can save and exhibit their excellent work on school’s website so that they can view and receive praise or comments from other teachers, friends or even parents. This allows them to develop self concept and achievement motivation. Lastly, teachers who can maintain good motivation which actively involves their students will lead to greatest achievement and maintain high level of arousal, especially in the case of sociable students which will provide satisfaction through acceptance by and recognition from a group.

March 12, 2009 at 7:14 am

Hjh Nurhafizah Syukriyati Asnawi - 08D0303

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

During my Year 4 class, i taught the pupils how to import an image and add text using adode photoshop CS3. Initially i showed them an image of a duck that i imported from the internet. From there, i added text to the image. I told the pupils that this is what they are going to do for today’s lesson.

I told them to open the application and teach them the step by step procedure to import an image. Once all the pupils are able to import an image, i proceed to teaching the step by step procedure for adding text to an image using the pen tool. Here i let them play with the font type, font size and colour. Then i asked the pupils if they can move the text another
part of the image using a certain tool on the toorbar. Most of the pupils are able to locate the move tool and move the text to another part of the image. I usually go round the class to observe their performance and praise them on their work.

March 12, 2009 at 7:20 am

zainon hj jaafar

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

It is an important aspect of student academic performance and achievement in classroom settings. By helping them to develop self-regulated learning, this can improves students’ learning, but it also improves their perceptions of efficacy, a widely studied measure of students’ motivation to self-regulate. Students who display initiative, intrinsic motivation and personal responsibility achieve particular academic success. Strategies that have been shown to have a particular impact on achievement are self-observing, self-judging, and self-reacting. The strategies of self-evaluation and monitoring, goal setting and strategic planning, strategy implementation and monitoring. So, through this development, I as their facilitator give the pupils a fully support and responsibility for them to do their own activity using computer as what I have been taught. And they will show to me what they have done. From there, I will know every each of their own skills and any kind of strategies they will develop.

March 12, 2009 at 7:22 am

ALWIE

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

first of all the students must understand the purpose of learning then they can start to plan, monitor and modify their cognition. in order for the students to be self-regulated learning type of students, they must be intrinscally motivated. self-regulated means the students themselves are doing the work. so something must motivates them to do it.

for the teacher, they should try to give their students the work that the students are interested, i.e, giving works which the students feel relevant to them and they can understand it easily.

March 12, 2009 at 7:24 am

Soly Mornie

Question: 1) How to initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

Activity: Creating a “Keep Clean” Poster using MS_Publisher.
Year: 4
Time: 30 minutes

Initiation:
1] Show pupils end product(Poster, not necessarily a “Keep Clean” poster), and let pupils know that they could create and design posters on their own.

2] Tell pupils that they are going to create, design and print their very own “Keep Clean” Posters for the day.

3] Introduce to the pupils the “application” they are going to use to create and design their cards (MS_Publisher).

4] The teacher demonstrates and lets pupils folow the simple steps and ensure that the pupils are aware of the similarities with MS_Word(tools).

Tools to demonstrate:
Text (typing, fonts, colours, sizes).
Selecting Borders or Frames.
Inserting Image.

Sustain & Direct Activities:

1] Give pupils the time to complete the activity (Creating and Designing a “Keep Clean” Poster).

2] Pupils are to print out their end product (those who have finished may print out their posters, assisted by the teacher).

Note: The teacher must ensure that all pupils are engaging themselves in the activity, some may need assistance too, so the teacher must make sure the pupils are all engaging themselves in the task by making rounds and checking on the pupils during activity time. The end products are to be hung on the display board outside the ICT lab for one week.

March 12, 2009 at 7:26 am

Dyg Norolhoda Hj Md Arpan

Question 1 - How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

As a whole, one evaluation stated that teachers had found that having a laptop with multimedia capability allowed them to make more use of visual materials. The laptop connected to the Internet allowed teachers to respond quickly and in-depth to student questions. Students were reported to gain understanding and interest consequent upon teacher use of multi-modal lesson materials.

In order to keep students actively involved in learning and to promote a high level of engagement, the learning environment must offer complexity and variety, a blend of safety and stimulation. (Kritchevsky, et al, 1986) The classroom must offer the children many stimulating choices if we expect them to remain involved and engaged.

An example is a word processing lesson titled “Getting Started With Ms Word” for Year 3

Initiate (Set Induction):
(1) Teacher show on the whiteboard a finished product of several picturesque article e.g. a flyer and a card created with Ms Word.
(2) Teacher then proceed to explain to the pupils how they can create such an article.
(3) Teacher explain what tools available in Ms Word pupils may use to create and further enhance their work.

Sustain & Direct (Class Activity)
(1) Instruct the pupils to form groups and proceed to individual computers.
(2) With the article still showing on the whiteboard, teacher instruct pupils to create a file.
(3) Teacher give pupils several topics of interest for the pupils to create e.g. an invitation to a birthday party, a “Keep Our School Clean” flyer, a “Happy Teacher’s Day” card and a “No Smoking” flyer.
(4) While pupils discuss among themselves what they want to do, teacher further explain where pupils are able to copy cliparts and images for their article. e.g clipart/images folder or googling images from the internet.
(5) Once pupils are engrossed in creating their article, teacher remind pupils of their choice of colours. i.e. blending of colours and making their font and image size moderate so as not to overcrowd their article.
(6) Teacher go round the class and give comments about pupils work, recommend and show other tools that might be of interest to the pupils e.g. borders and shapes
(7) Five minutes to end of class, teacher remind pupils to save their work and that teacher will print out their work for their next class.

March 12, 2009 at 7:28 am

Soly Mornie

CORRECTION

3] Introduce to the pupils the “application” they are going to use to create and design their cards (MS_Publisher).

should have been:

3] Introduce to the pupils the “application” they are going to use to create and design their posters (MS_Publisher).

March 12, 2009 at 7:29 am

Nonnie King

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?

Activity - Creating a monthly calendar using MS Word.

Before jumping in straight away to the “lesson-content” section teaching them how to insert a Table and so on, it is important to trigger their interest and gather the concentration, initiating the activitie.

I will normally gather them in the front part of the lab, ask them to sit down and show them a “sample-result” of the activities and ask,

“Do you want to have your own personalized calendar to jot down all the important days like your family members’ birthdays, school holidays and days of examinations?”

“You can design your own calendar with your favorite colour, insert photos of your brothers and sisters or even a picture of picnic basket to remind you that you’re going for a picnic soon!”

“In order to do so, I need your concentration so that you won’t miss out anything and please cooperate with me if you want to finish this by today.”

This is to show them briefly what they are going to do for the day and make them feel eager to try it out themselves. I don’t want them to straight away sit by the computer desks because it will be hard to gather their focus once they have their hands on the keyboard.

After telling them what they are doing to do for today’s lesson, I will ask them to stand up and walk softly to the computer desks but, they’re not allowed to sit on the chair yet.

They will be asked to launch the MS Word program and those who has successfully launched the program can sit down. This step is for my convenience to spot who are more capable so that they can my little helpers helping out their friends later. And also, it is also easier for me to know which computers is having problem with the software and so on.

Lesson:
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I will stay at my computer table and show them steps by steps on the screen so that they can follow simultaneously.

The first few steps in creating a table is simple:
1. Look into the menu bar, click on the “Table” then, look for the word “Insert” and click “Table” once again.

2. The dialogue box will popped-up, you need 7 columns and 6 rows.

3. Next is to fill in the first row with the “DAYS”. Ask the students how many days are they in a week and name them. While they are answering, I will fill in the first row. They are some student who appears to have below average learning abilities so by showing them the correct spellings, at least they can still follow and not feel helpless trying to look at their
friend’s screen or disrupt the class by walking around and ask.

4. Ask the student whether the month we’re doing has 30 or 31 days.

5. Tell the student the 1st day of the month lands on which day and ask them to carry on fill in until the very last day.

While carrying the above steps, I will still walk around the lab and check on their progress to determine whether I can speed up, slow down or continue with the current pace. And also, when the students see me walking around, they will behave too.

After completing the first 5 steps the table in the MS Word will look like a calendar already, next I will be teaching them on how to personalize the calendar by adding colors to the table cells and inserting pictures.

To add color into the cells:
1. highlight the cells you wish to color
2. right click and select “Borders and Shading”
3. Choose the “Shading” tab.
4. Select the color that you like.

To insert Picture:
1. Move your cursor to the cell you wish to insert picture and click once
2. Choose “Insert” from the menu bar and select “Picture” or “Clipart”
3. Browse for the picture or insert.

The student will be given 5 - 10 minutes in personalising their calendar by typing in text, adding colors and pictures.

To motivate them in order to finish their works in today’s lesson, I will announced,

“For those who can finish it by this lesson, I will help you to print it out and it will be given out to you. The best designed calendar will be pasted in the board”

The printed calendar is a form of extrinsic motivation and pasting the best designed calendar is an intrinsic motivation in order to get them interested and engaged in what they are doing.

March 12, 2009 at 7:31 am

Siti Aminah (08D0311)

my new anser for Q2

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

Teacher has to give direct feedback to pupils. First, teacher has to guide what pupils is learning. Secondly, teacher has to monitor for each pupils’ work and from here teacher can know what pupils’ problem and teachers can give some help to correct their mistake. From here pupils can learn from mistake and they will have initiative to learn more because the teacher will guide them when they have problem during their learning. It is also better for pupils to join some activities given by teacher, this will help them to foster their learning, have more skill, make them excited to learn and will make them more confident.
Metacognition is an important concept in cognitive theory. It consists of two basic processes occurring simultaneously: monitoring your progress as you learn, and making changes and adapting your strategies if you perceive you are not doing so well. It’s about self-reflection, self-responsibility and initiative, as well as goal setting and time management.
Metacognitive skills include taking conscious control of learning, planning and selecting strategies, monitoring the progress of learning, correcting errors, analyzing the effectiveness of learning strategies, and changing learning behaviors and strategies when necessary.

March 12, 2009 at 7:49 am

Soly Mornie

Question: 2) How to help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop

self-regulated learning of students in ICT?<

Activity: Creating an E-book using MS_Powerpoint.
Year: 6
Time: 30 minutes (for 2 weeks = 1 hour)

1] Teacher asks pupils to borrow their favorite storybooks from the school library.

2] Teacher shows an E-book via the IWB and tell the pupils that this is achievable for them

to do.

3] Teacher refreshes their minds about MS_Powerpoint and explains to the pupils that

MS_Powerpoint can not only do a presentation, but also an E-book.

4] Teacher then groups the pupils in groups of 4.

5] Since the pupils are already familiar with MS_Powerpoint, teacher may now give the pupils

the activity/project right away:

a) Create an E-book (following the storybook you borrowed).
b) Remember to add in images, sounds, videos.
c) Remember to be creative!

6] Teacher makes rounds and checks on pupils.

7] When the time is up, teacher ensures that the pupils have saved their work in their

folders to be continued and finished next week(next lesson).

March 12, 2009 at 7:54 am

Nonnie King

2. How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT?

Activity - Designing a House Plan

When we mention Microsoft Word, most of us will only think of “typing” because it is a word processor. Apart from typing, we can also insert pictures and shapes in it to create a drawing.

Ask any student to draw a house and they will come up with a very stereotype “house” with a combination of a triangular roof and a rectangular wall with a door and two windows. In this lesson, I will ask them to design their “dream house” in a bird-eye view.

They have to plan:
1. the numbers of rooms in their house
2. the layout of their house

They have to draft their drawings on a piece of paper first and show me before drawing them in MS word because their house plan can be either too simple or too complicated. I can also check whether their design are practical and so on.

They will be inserting shapes to their drawing and add colors to make their house plan attractive.

For the next lesson, they can enhance their plan by adding in the furnitures.

March 12, 2009 at 7:55 am

Dyg Norolhoda Hj Md Arpan

Question 2 - How can you help students plan, monitor and modify their cognition to develop self-regulated learning of students in ICT.

Self-Regulated Learning(SRL) consists of a set of cross-curricular abilities which allow people to make the most of their learning activity by controlling all variables that have some influence on it.It is not surprising, hence, that teaching self-regulatory skills in addition to subject-matter knowledge is currently a main goal of education. Although some research studies show that SRL abilities usually increase with age, there is evidence that it does not increase naturally butrather because of suitable training. Research also indicates that students who lack skills inself-regulation tend not only to achieve poor academic results, but also to have behaviour problems and difficulties in their social relations, both in expressing their thoughts and feelings and in attempting to understand others.

An example is a month blog project for Year 6 students titled “Our last year as primary students”

Set induction:
(1) Teacher present a blog to the students on the IWB.
(2) Teacher further explain what a blog is.
(3) Teacher further show what is contained in a blog.

Main activity:
(1) Teacher gives the students the title of the project.
(2) Teacher explain to the students they are to work in groups and firstly create their group blog in class.
(3) Teacher further suggest to students to allocate tasks for individual members of the group e.g. picture taking, note taking and structuring of how the blog should look like.
(4) Teacher may suggest to post in their blog every 2 days or 3 days.
(4) Teacher then suggest students to make use of what they learn in previous lessons. e.g. using digital camera and uploading in their blogs and embedding videos and slideshows in their blog.
(5) Teacher may suggest to students link their blog with the other groups’ blogs.
(6) Teacher then will inform the students that the assessment will be ongoing throughout the time span of the project
(7) At the end of the project, each group will present their blogs during class.

March 12, 2009 at 10:09 am

Siti Aminah Maidin

My second answer of Question 1

1. How can you initiate, sustain and direct activities in an ICT lesson to motivate students?
It is variety ways that teacher had to initiate which can motivate students in ICT lesson. For example in using Paint program. First of all, we show first some creative drawing to pupils then will make them interesting and excited to try. To sustain them, it is good also to show some teaching material like card birthday which have a picture of cartoon, car, any picture of cartoons like sponge, mickey mouse, etc. this will give them an idea to draw from the teaching materials that we brought.
For direct activities, teacher can give an activity for students. For my students, they will share one computer for two students. From here, there will be many question will be ask by them. From my experience, I will let them ask for help from then immediately I will go to them and from there I will know what their weaknesses. Sometime, when they had learn new thing, I will give a praise then I will ask he/she to teach their friends, this will make them have self-confidence and have initiative to help each others.

By using intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. For e.g. by giving praise, items like pencil, color pencil, etc. When the pupils have finish their work, teacher can give them to using computer, this will make them excited to know more about computer and can improve their learning in using computer.

A2.
Teacher has to give direct feedback to pupils. First, teacher has to guide what pupils is learning. Secondly, teacher has to monitor for each pupils’ work and from here teacher can know what pupils’ problem and teachers can give some help to correct their mistake. From here pupils can learn from mistake and they will have initiative to learn more because the teacher will guide them when they have problem during their learning. It is also better for pupils to join some activities given by teacher, this will help them to foster their learning, have more skill, make them excited to learn and will make them more confident.
Metacognition is an important concept in cognitive theory. It consists of two basic processes occurring simultaneously: monitoring your progress as you learn, and making changes and adapting your strategies if you perceive you are not doing so well. It's about self-reflection, self-responsibility and initiative, as well as goal setting and time management.
Metacognitive skills include taking conscious control of learning, planning and selecting strategies, monitoring the progress of learning, correcting errors, analyzing the effectiveness of learning strategies, and changing learning behaviors and strategies when necessary.