Module 9

Scootle is a fantastic website and I have used it quite extensively in the classroom. It supports a lot of the KLA's.  For our democracy unit, it was hard to find a lot of resources that were child friendly.  I spent quite a lot of time searching for appropriate learning objects and saving them to my learning paths.It is also good for differentiating the curriculum as  you can set different learning objects for different groups of children in the class. I have used these learning objects before for rotating maths activities in maths groups.

I liked looking at the Second Life site where you can enter virtual worlds and learn by being immersed into other worlds.I think this is an interesting tool as children are learning differently to when we were at school.  It is said that traditional lectures and where children are being talked at doesn't hold the interest of many students, therefore children are not doing a whole lot of learning.I think this idea of 'role playing' would capture the interest levels of children. 

I have not used social networking sites such as twitter for personal use or in the classroom. At our school at the moment, we have a lot of children that are on facebook, even though the minimum age is 13.  So they(or their parents) are signing them up for an account.  I don't see the educational value for these sites in the Primary Classroom.  It mentioned that we as teachers are able to educate the students from a young age on ways they can be responsible and use the websites for the better rather than for the worse. I think that was a very important point as some children in he school have been involved with cyber bullying and not understanding the consequences not displaying responsible behaviour on the net.