Monday, 16 April 2012

authentic learning and assessment


Week 5 blog

Things are still tough a bit, especially the readings.  I don’t know how do others find this anyway, this is my view. The studying and working at the same time is a good one, I really appreciate it. Thanks Stha and the team. Coming to family life is worse especially because I only see them on weekends, there’s no understanding. They feel left out, especially when I had to go through my readings.
 Thanks for helping me team, I really appreciate your thought.
Lovely day

behaviourism and cognitivism

Behaviourism and Cognitivism
         VIDEO WATCHING
 Having watched the videos in you-tube, helped me a lot when I had to go through my readings and broaden my understanding on the two theories.
 Using multimedia in learning is very effective in most of the time. This helps teachers a lot when explaining or elaborating in class. Watching videos caters for all learners and promote understanding as they often provide meaningful information. Therefore teachers need to be encouraged to use multimedia in their classes for effective learning. 
At school there are videos that are provided by National Geographics and CD’s that are coming from Soul Buddyz from Soul City so I let my learners to watch them in Life Orientation lessons. After that, learners are the ones who explains what they have learned.  The thing is only relevant and planned for videos must be used because this might disturb learners in class.
For an example; learners learn better and remember easily when they are watching rather than when they are told. Facebook, twitter or mxit has convinced me to prove that learners interact much with friends and learn better from internet.