Week 2 reflection:

The vast array of uses and knowledgeable ways ICTs can be applied into classrooms is astonishing. I came to that assumption last week but after my first tute it made it much clearer.  Yes I knew I phones were very capable devices but unless you actually know how to use the ICT resources that you have they are useless. I didn’t and still don’t really know how to simply add a video from my I phone to my blog just because I wouldn’t know where to look in the first place (hopefully ask Wendy this week about that). The activity material this week seemed very familiar, I connected well with it because I had enough background knowledge about the topics to understand them and go through them fairly quickly. Something which opened my eyes was the fact that ED QLD acknowledges that ICTs pedagogy is necessary to teach in the 21^st century. To go forward in an ICT based world we need the people making up our curriculums to see that we must progress our learning styles and methods. Without this the next generation of learners would not be equipped for the world and thus helping them to not succeed. The TPACK model I feel is one which can be understood easily and shows just how important ICTs really are. So after my first tute I did feel relieved that I hadn’t got lost from the pack. I felt I could relate to and understand what was going on. This is it for another week and I am hopeful that in the future I will be doing a video reflection J