Sunday, January 18, 2015

Module 4 - Cox Voogt

In this paper Cox (2012) raises many interesting points.

Cox notes that many teachers feel threatened by technology and feel that it is a disruptive force in the classroom. This does seem true to me although I think that this attitude is changing. I think that school wide attitudes are important in this respect. If teachers generally in the school have a positive attitude to technology then this encourages the less enthusiastic Voogt (2011) confirms this view on page 4.

On page 6 Cox (2012) goes on to say that the first priority of teachers is to order and control in the classroom. This rings less true for what I observe at my school surprisingly, when I walk into a classroom nowadays it seems much more chaotic to me than when I went to school. Students move around the classrooms and talk a lot more due to group work and efforts by teachers to make learning more student focused.

Page 13 - I liked the observations by Cox (2012) about studies into IT in education and how the studies can give misleading results, esp examples like only one computer per classroom and 95% of teachers delivering an IT curriculum only using a word processor - the devil is in the details and often questionnaires miss the details!!

I liked the Voogt (2011) plan for implementing ICT in a school;

Infrastructure development
Teacher professional development
Support
Articulation of ICT in the curriculum
Continuous development and research.




















Cox, M.J. (2012), Formal to informal learning with IT: research challenges and issues for e-learning. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2012.00483.x

Voogt J., Knezek G., Cox M.J., Knezek D.&ten Brummelhuis A. (2011) Under which conditions does ICT have a positive effect on teaching and learning? Acall to action. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 15 November 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00453.x.




Voogt J., Knezek G., Cox M.J., Knezek D.&ten Brummelhuis A. (2011) Under which conditions does ICT have a positive effect on teaching and learning? Acall to action. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 15 November 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00453.x.

1 Comments:

At January 19, 2015 at 8:26 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am not sure if teachers feel threatened or they just don't know how to implement it into there already developed pedagogical practice and units
Voogt raised the issue of collaboration being "crucial to support ICT". Maybe personal development days could focus more on this?

 

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