Lecture 5_Today I Learn, Today I Question

This week’s lecture comprises a number of presentations. It’s quite different from our normal lectures where Huey Zher would lead some of the discussions. Sailor started off with his presentation on TPACK –Technological, Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. His slide show was very informative and I enjoyed looking at and relearning what we’ve learnt about TPACK. The slides were easy to understand. However, when I reviewed them later I realised that there was a point that I did not fully understand, which is, “the situated nature of learning”. I checked it out and found this explanation: “situated or anchored learning,  presumes that most learning is context-dependent, so that cognitive experiences are situated in authentic activities such as project-based learning”. Is this what you mean, Sailor?

Yin’s presentation was equally awesome and I find myself quickly saving the links she gave so that I could check them out later to see if I could use them for either Assignment 3 or my project paper (*keeping fingers crossed). It was also very good that we had this topic because I've forgotten ALL that I've ever learned about learning theories(studied them over 20 years ago)

Oh yeah, in the midst of all the excitements of today I almost forgot to mention: we have a new addition to the class and member to our group. Her name is Shakirah. After the two individual presentations, came the various groups’ presentation on what their ideas were for Assignment 3. There was not enough time for our group to present (*phew! – the other groups sounded very confident and impressive) hehe.  However, Huey Zher insisted that we follow her out of class to present her our ideas. At first we were quite blur but after a few probing questions and pointers from her, our focus seemed clearer. Not going to divulge anything yet ;P Need to work on it more. The question I kept asking myself was: will we live up to the task?

      Huey Zher pointing the way.
             

                                                              Our group members’ dazed and blur looks