The mobile phones wiki helped me to grasp certain ideas from a reading and develop them through the use of De Bono’s thinking hats (de Bono, 1992). This scaffolding thinking routine enabled me to critique and evaluate at a high order of thinking. This was an extremely valuable learning activity because throughout reflecting on the questions of the De Bono’s thinking hats my perceptions were changed and influenced to think outside the box.
Constructivism is evident in this particular activity because I drew on past experiences where mobile phones were seen as a distraction and only used for social uses. Now, I have reconstructed my knowledge and changed my thoughts and created new experiences where I can see mobile phones being a useful and important educational tool in the classroom.
Once again, through acknowledging new evidence and ideas I have revamped my schemata and through such a drastic schemata change from negative to positive thoughts surrounding mobile phones in the classroom, I now have a better chance of storing these changed schemata’s in my long term memory.
By using different scaffolding techniques and acquiring more analytical content through the wiki, I believe this behaviourism of learning is moving me in the direction of finding the relevant facts and relating them to a high order of thinking.
Going to the source to find the correct information is crucial, in regards to the e-learning space, you are constantly connecting with information which needs to be filtered and/or reflected upon.
De Bono’s thinking hats is an excellent tool for establishing high order thinking and creating a deeper understanding of the knowledge been illustrated. I would definitely introduce the De Bono’s thinking hats in the classroom because for it to change my perceptions of mobile phones in the classroom through connecting with each of the six hats is an excellent reflective, thought provoking tool. For instance, I believed that mobile phones in the classroom were a distraction and social device until I got to the creative hat in De Bono’s theory and started to reinvestigate my thoughts and see the purpose of mobile phones in the classroom as a positive learning experience.
The mobile phone wiki relates to the majority of learners, nearly every student would have a mobile phone and can see the benefits and negatives of using them within a classroom. Most people can relate to having a mobile phone and what they are used for in their own lives. I know I only use my phone for texting but I know if I learnt how to use the internet and to download off them I would be using the device more effectively.
Once again the activity is a wiki, this time you can see all responses on the wiki at once. For me, the benefits of participating in a wiki like this, is that there is a range of critique and analysis which leads to informed understanding but I found that when everyone was posting to the wiki it just made the page look so busy that I didn’t know where to begin to even start reading. I am a sequential leaner and I like to see answers to questions in order. Also, I struggled to upload my responses to the wiki due to there being so many responses, so I uploaded my responses to my blog. Wikis are a great way to navigate through the content and ideas of the theory but this particular wiki was just too disorganised on the page which created confusion and frustration.
Constructivism is evident in this particular activity because I drew on past experiences where mobile phones were seen as a distraction and only used for social uses. Now, I have reconstructed my knowledge and changed my thoughts and created new experiences where I can see mobile phones being a useful and important educational tool in the classroom.
Once again, through acknowledging new evidence and ideas I have revamped my schemata and through such a drastic schemata change from negative to positive thoughts surrounding mobile phones in the classroom, I now have a better chance of storing these changed schemata’s in my long term memory.
By using different scaffolding techniques and acquiring more analytical content through the wiki, I believe this behaviourism of learning is moving me in the direction of finding the relevant facts and relating them to a high order of thinking.
Going to the source to find the correct information is crucial, in regards to the e-learning space, you are constantly connecting with information which needs to be filtered and/or reflected upon.
De Bono’s thinking hats is an excellent tool for establishing high order thinking and creating a deeper understanding of the knowledge been illustrated. I would definitely introduce the De Bono’s thinking hats in the classroom because for it to change my perceptions of mobile phones in the classroom through connecting with each of the six hats is an excellent reflective, thought provoking tool. For instance, I believed that mobile phones in the classroom were a distraction and social device until I got to the creative hat in De Bono’s theory and started to reinvestigate my thoughts and see the purpose of mobile phones in the classroom as a positive learning experience.
The mobile phone wiki relates to the majority of learners, nearly every student would have a mobile phone and can see the benefits and negatives of using them within a classroom. Most people can relate to having a mobile phone and what they are used for in their own lives. I know I only use my phone for texting but I know if I learnt how to use the internet and to download off them I would be using the device more effectively.
Once again the activity is a wiki, this time you can see all responses on the wiki at once. For me, the benefits of participating in a wiki like this, is that there is a range of critique and analysis which leads to informed understanding but I found that when everyone was posting to the wiki it just made the page look so busy that I didn’t know where to begin to even start reading. I am a sequential leaner and I like to see answers to questions in order. Also, I struggled to upload my responses to the wiki due to there being so many responses, so I uploaded my responses to my blog. Wikis are a great way to navigate through the content and ideas of the theory but this particular wiki was just too disorganised on the page which created confusion and frustration.
De Bono, E. (1992). Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats. Retrieved from
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