Digital smigital....??? What did I just say?

Once again I bravely stepped where no Ryan Stewart has stepped before, and thankfully, this time was much easier then the last, 'HOORAY'. This weeks topic seemed fairly open ended and relatively easy, until it was applied to using it as a tool for different level's of educating. Although I completed a 'masterclass' video performance in my lecture this week, my inability to send that video to my email showed how out of touch and how creative I can be. Out of touch in 'how hard is it really' to send myself a video link and secondly how creative I can be to accept that mistake and create a new window of discovery to complete work I had previously never attempted. "HOORAY 2"

Being hand feed the criteria, having someone explain what we need to do and ways to complete it did offer great clarity and vision as to what was required, however it did take some pedagogy intuition to apply it to my teaching style.

I decided to use video, it seemed to be the most modern and versatile way to connect, create curiosity and modernise students interest in what, who and why they were learning what they were watching. As you can use both images, music, video, quotes, clips, links, interactions, compilations, integration's between other students and teacher/student and so on. It also offers diversity in relation to Bloom's Taxonomy, from knowledge, all they way to creative, as seen in the SAMR evidence below.

Substitution: Speeches, plays, advertisements or drama/English assignments that students could do in class. however replace it with video.

Augmentation: Using a video via blog page that can be accessed by other students on content relevant to assignment standards. Adding integration of students and a better all round perspective from diverse students and teacher input.

Modification: Using a video that encompasses images, videos, clips and even collaborative sessions to present, argue for and show understanding and reasoning through on the spot tests. Also allowing for students to think outside the box to ask relevant questions that qualify good reasoning.

Redefinition: Students could break assessment into sections all combining to complete to whole task combining video and recorded links to create a published file open for public, student and teacher reasoning to qualify all students comprehension and understanding to the topic and test levels of critical and creative higher order thinking.

Video is a tool that must be used and as a teacher it would be a great asset for educating, respect and diversity in teaching.

Check out my video link below for a little insight into my daughter and beautiful wife ;)