ICT for Meaningful Learning

Activity 1: Think-Pair-Share

1) Self Directed Learning:
* Learning from you own mistakes - Independent Learning
* DIY (Do it Yourself) - Individual Research/Ideas
* "Contained"/"Closed"/Limited Learning
(only knows to the best of his/her own knowledge)

2) Cooperative Learing
* Restricted to a small group (Sharing of Knowledge)
* Learning from each other (People with different levels of abilities/knowledge)

3) Collaborative Learning
* Made up of 2 or more small groups
* A bigger 'sharing pool of abilities and knowledge of people
* Able to correct/comments/improve each other thoughts

Activity 2 - Think, Pair, Share (Video)

SDL is clearly illustrated in Video 1, where students (group of 2 - 3) decides on a problem/task to solve. The conducted research independently or between themselves. Teachers were there only to facilitate their projects. However, in the later part of the video, CL can be observed when students takes on the 'Service Learning' project as a whole/class.

Meanwhile in video 2, SDL and CL could be seen in progress. Students were broken into groups where each group were given different tasks to solve(SDL). Once each group had managed to solve the problem, the collaboratively put up all their findings to save the astronauts.(CL)

Activity 3 - SDL & CL in Action

In my opinion, both method, SDL and CL plays an important part in the students or the teachers development. Students needs to be able to learn independently and yet able to share and received comments/feedback and learn to realise what they had left out or missed or other useful pointers that the might have left out or never think of. Meanwhile, I feel that when students works collaboratively, students who are not interested or lost might not be contributing and just seat thought the process. However, this might still generate interest in them as they might be interested with all the commotions that is going on around them.

Activity 4 - Think, Pair and Share

When doing the mind map, using the "Mindmiester", we were able edit/contribute our thoughts and ideas as well as change the contribution by other groups which we think is out of point in 'real-time' and also look at what other groups had contributed. Thus this is one good example of CL as we all contributed to get a bigger picture. However, in order for us to input our thoughts into the mind-map, we need to know what is required, therefore some of us 'google' for some ideas. Thus, I feel that SDL also plays apart in this exercise as well.