EDPP302 Week 6

WEEK 6 - Additional materials

Last week finished with a quick look at solution or strengths based approaches. These work especially well with difficult and hard to reach students as well as providing a creative and interesting strategy for teachers in a variety of settings and situations.

Solution focussed intervention is known by many names including Brief therapy and Narrative therapy.

Beginning the book by Michael Durrant - Creative solutions for school problems, this story provides an interesting insight in the rationale behind the solution focussed approach. (click to enlarge)

Then we look at the way digital technology tools can be used to engage students and the huge implications this has on both what we teach and the way we interact with student.

Report from a study of programs using technology in the UK, USA and Australia conducted as part of a NSW Premier's Scholarship in 2009.

PowerPoint Presentation from Lecture 6 on how technology can engage unmotivated learners

Tom Chatfield looks at how the design and playing of games affects the learning and motivation of players. He explains what can be learned about the learning process for a generation for whom technology and games are an everyday part of life. (click to view)

Sugata Mitra talking about his Hole in the Wall project - using technology with slum children in India and watching the self directed learning that results when curiousity and computers mix.