Reflection – Mobile Phones

Reflection on own learning

The activity for week 2 was to look into the use of mobile phone in education. Initially I looked at this and though about all the trouble that schools go to, to enforce mobile phone policies because of the class distractions they cause and also the privacy issue in regards to camera phones. However, once I got into a bit of the reading I started to see the advantages of mobile phones being used in education but still was unsure about the insecurity of it all and the possible problems that arise not to mention the expenses. We used De Bono’s 6 Thinking Hats to generate different views on this topic and I believed it was very successful. I have used De Bono’s Hats before and think they are a great learning tool.

Reflection on potential

This approach brought out lots of different views on the topic and provided a great involvement within the group. This approach also provided anonymity which enabled students to post without revelling who they were  and enabled a great group discussion

Constructivism 

The students were active in the discussion sharing what they had learnt and learning from what others had posted.

Cognitivism 

This activity enabled the students to sort through their ideas and the information they were given from the readings and put them into the 6 categorises of the hats.

Behaviourism 

Not sure on this one? There was no feedback from the lecturer although there was from other students in a way that if someone posted something similar to them they do have that shared opinion which provided positive reinforcement (May be totally off track with this).

Connectivism 

There was a diversity of opinions within the sections of De Bono’s Hats which shows connectivism, also the students were looking at alternative information sources for their discussion not just the ones that were provided.

Diversity

I don’t believe this activity supports a diverse range of students because it was a clear cut activity

eLearning and Digital Pedagogy

I believe the De Bono’s Thinking Hats are a great way of engaging students to explore different ways of thinking, by having it set out as a discussions students could add their thoughts and also looks at other students ideas to gain further understanding and different ideas.

Note: Each week I am learning more about the different Learning Theories and am realising that my original statements/definitions were either incorrect or need tweaking/adding to.