When you explain something out loud or teach it, we all know it deepens our understanding.
Explaining and recording thinking verbally on EE the apps, especially maths, encouraged students to use their own ideas, thoughts, and opinions. They showed a notably better understanding of the concept being taught, each time they got better at breaking their thought process into clearer steps and articulated their process better. They seemed to remember with little or no prompt in lessons that followed.
They also showed the ability to more easily transfer that knowledge across a range of contexts. For example in maths, they could take that strategy and use it when I changed operations or numbers. Kids who didn't use the recording seemed to need more prompting and also were less engaged.
Using apps and extensions have definitely supported students to find strategies and ways for learning that works for them. We all learn differently and at different paces so using the different tools has encouraged my students to show initiative, and gain independence and ownership over their learning. Video feedback, instructions and How to Vids have been giving students the time to process their thoughts and learn at their own pace.
Video instructions allow students the flexibility to watch it in the time they choose and can watch it as many times as they need. They also will always have it there to listen back on if needed. Students seem to enjoy hearing their teacher's voice - the majority of the time (not all). It helps build a relationship and connection that can get lost in written form.
I feel I am developing as a facilitator of learning and have given the ownership of teaching to the students. I would like to provide more collaboration with my students. I have done this at advisories where I have set up science and technology activities and they have had to work together and it was really interesting to see the interactions between groups.
I work with some of my students' collaboratively in online lessons and I would want to build on this next year if I were staying.
I have noticed students are becoming more articulate when describing their process or strategy for learning and it has boosted their overall confidence and growth in ownership of work.
Providing hands-on learning experiences has encouraged students to 'think aloud', and discuss with each other the ins and outs of their learning, how they gotto an answer and what they want to know next. It has allowed other students to flourish as they were given ideas, confidence and followed by their peers example. It is very true that we learn the best from our peers. Using the students to model work and thinking for each other was really effective.
I will continue to develop my feedback pedagogy and knowledge, and continue find best practice to promote collaberate learning and in turn, becoming more of the facilitator than the teacher.
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