The lecture today took place as a video conference. Of course, anything via the internet will have its negatives, such as not everyone was able to connect or the connection was too slow thus the video conference lagging. Overall, the video conference was great. Being able to access the lecture at the comfort of your own home. Why not?
In the video conference we discussed the Horizon report. I looked at deeper learning approaches (Presentation linked below). I found this topic very interesting.
Deeper learning approaches are ways which promotes children in critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and self-directed learning. For example, this might mean giving children a problem to solve which involves children coming together to collaborate their answers to obtain the final answer. Deeper learning approaches are becoming more widely used in technology for example, children can use wevideo to collaboratively edit and create a video or use Twitter to share and comment on different ideas.
So why use deeper learning approaches in class? Well, research undertaken by several organisation have stated when children are working with tasks which require deeper learning approaches it has caused an increase in academic results, stronger interpersonal skills and higher enrolment and on time graduation rate than those who did not incorporate deeper learning approaches.