- 1. From Digital essays to the formal model, building the
capability of digital natives Show and Tell Presented byTapuai
Faamalua Tipi andDr Joce Jesson.
2. toDaYs sEssioN.
- What I wont talk about today in detail.
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- Foundation Education Certificate. What is it?
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- Demographics of students enrolling since 2002.
- Big ideas for today's session. (3Ds)
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- D igital essays to formal model.
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- D EveLopInG links through learning process.
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- D emonstrate using examples.
- Its about learning codes. Understanding Codes (Bernstein,
B)
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VIDEO 4. Our Students in Foundation Certificate Education 5.
What do you do with the changing demographics in foundation
certificate education?
- Adaptation with the paper to suit the demographics.
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- Understand Digital Native capability.
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- our digital immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated
language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a
population that speaks an entirely new language.
Change learning outcome to suit the demographics of students
coming through. 6. Grappling with tension.
- How do you mould and incorporate Net generation student
capability to tertiary academic rigor?
- This new generation is portrayed as intrinsically different to
the older in that their educational, social and cultural
expectations and needs are profoundly shaped by digital technology.
(Mollgaard, 2007)
- It can be argued that net generation or Digital native students
will be more inclined to actively participate than to be in static
contemplation when learning. (Prensky, 2001; Mollgaard, 2007)
7. Life as a student at the Faculty of Education. (Student
example) VIDEO 8. Digital essay to formal model. Understanding
terms of engagement in writing Essays.
- Foundation Students need to understand academic Rigor.
- Constructing an argument for or against a particular
issue.
- Collect the Supporting evidence.
- Literature Review using APA reference.
9. VIDEO 10. Transferable Processes: From Digital Essay back to
Traditional Essay.
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- Draft / Practice/ Reorder.
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- Pre-writing which involves researching the topic and planning
your approach
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- Writing which involves completing the first full draft of the
essay
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- Re-writing which involves re-drafting, revising and
proofreading your work
11. Teaching Pedagogy using technology.
- Technology is simply a tool.
- It is how one uses the tool in order to create learning and
fully engage students thinking and understanding of a topic or
subject.
How can you use ICT tools to create effective learning and
engagement? 12. Developing Links through learning processes for
Digital essay. Brainstorm 13. Digital Essay Perform/ Practice/
Reorder. 14. Understanding Theories. Student submissions. Submit.
VIDEO 15. Individual submissions Digital Essays Submit. VIDEO 16.
Understanding Digital Essay
- How does it meet the ideals of essay writing?
- How does it meet academic rigor at tertiary level?
- Assessment criteria given at the beginning.
Discussion 17.
- Foundation students get their digital essays back and read the
comments and critically analyse what they could do better and what
needs to be worked on.
- Basically looking back on experiences.
Reflection 18. Capability of digital application to todays
classroom teaching.
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- Moodle - Faculty of Education -eLearning
19. References:
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- Beacker, H., (2000). Pedagogical motivation for pupil computer
use that lead to pupil engagement.Educational Technology ,40(5),
pp.5-17
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- Bernstein, B.,(1971) Class, Codes and Control vol 1London;
Paladin
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- Hirst, M. (2006). Broadcast to Narrowcast: how digital
technology is reshaping the mass media. Paper presented at the
Second Joint Journalism Education (JEA)/ Journalism Education
Association of New Zealand (JEANZ) conference, Auckland, December
4-7.
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- Kennedy, G., Krause, K., Judd, T., Churchward, A., & Gray,
K. (2006). First Year Students Experiences with Technology: Are
They Really Digital Natives? Melbourne, Australia: University of
Melbourne. Retrieved April 10, 2007,
fromhttp://www.bmu.unimelb.edu.au/research/munatives/natives_report2006.rtf
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- Kennedy, G., Krause, K.-L., Gray, K., Judd, T., Bennett, S.,
Maton, K., Dalgarno, B. & Bishop, A. (2006). Questioning the
Net Generation: A collaborative project in Australian higher
education. In L. Markauskaite, P. Goodyear & P. Reimann
(Eds.),Whos learning? Whose technology? Proceedings of the 23rd
Annual Conference of the Australiasian Society for Computers in
Learning in Tertiary Education(pp. 413-417). Sydney: Sydney
University Press.
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- Mollgaard, M. (2006). Radio journalism in the age of
podcasting. Paper presented at the Second Joint Journalism
Education (JEA)/Journalism Education Association of New Zealand
(JEANZ) conference, Auckland, December 4-7.
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- Prensky, M. (2001).Digital natives, digital immigrants.On the
Horizon9(5):
20. AcknowledgementsTapuaI Faamalua Tipi Dr Joce JessonVaiolesi
Passells And of course our students.