Friday
Mobile Site
Ok so iv moved on to the mobile site for a couple of days, just inserted the image jquery slider, I reduced the pictures down to size and cropped them so that the important information could still be seen. See the below image.
Wednesday
Hands On Update
There have been a few changes made to the Hands On client website Mainly style changes and moving around some of the div boxes. this has also happened mainly on the index page.
I have included a speech bubble with a quote from a client.The icons for facebook and twitter have changed and included in the footer, the blog has also been changed so that posts can be deleted by my client.
I have included a speech bubble with a quote from a client.The icons for facebook and twitter have changed and included in the footer, the blog has also been changed so that posts can be deleted by my client.
North Midlands Elite Development Centre
Posts have been a bit less frequent recently as i have had an external poject as well as my client and prp to be getting on with. check out the new website at
www.northmidlandselitedevelopmentcentre.co.uk
www.northmidlandselitedevelopmentcentre.co.uk
Monday
Artefact 3
Above is the document that I will be handing out to the school. The instructions will be for the children to have a conversation and copy down what they have said to each other in the speech bubbles. Each will take it in turn to fill in one of the bubbles.
The scenario will be 'a conversation you would have in the playground'
I have set out the document to be plain, so that this does not pucsh the children towards one subject.
Artefact 3
Meanwhile thinking up a new question I am beginning the design of the third artefact.
My main aim from the artefact is to see the way that children socialise between each other. I would like to prove that children are less social because of gaming. I would also like to see the way the children converse with text, so that i could see examples of text abbreviations/ slang etc.
I believe that the best way to do this would be to have the children in pairs, and let them converse but also write down what they have said in speech bubbles. I will make sure that they are free to talk about whatever they like, they will not be observed because this will move away from the point of the artefact. I will set the scenario as the playground and let them free to speak and write what they please to each other.
My main aim from the artefact is to see the way that children socialise between each other. I would like to prove that children are less social because of gaming. I would also like to see the way the children converse with text, so that i could see examples of text abbreviations/ slang etc.
I believe that the best way to do this would be to have the children in pairs, and let them converse but also write down what they have said in speech bubbles. I will make sure that they are free to talk about whatever they like, they will not be observed because this will move away from the point of the artefact. I will set the scenario as the playground and let them free to speak and write what they please to each other.
Moving on to artefact 3
For my personal research project i am looking for the subject area where the problem is. This should be a specific problem and as i move through each artefact, this should get more specific until i can attempt a solution at the problem. As i have explained in the previous post, i was proved very early that the subject area was not too much of a problem.
However the most interesting pieces of information that was called to my attention from the previous artefacts, which was the socialisation of children. Mrs White had explained that she has seen a significant difference with the way children talk, play and write.
She explained that children were less social in the playground there is more fighting (play fighting) specifically between the young boys. They often used text messaging abbreviations in their writing such as, you/U and LOL for laugh out loud.and finally there is more references to gaming in their story writing, for example the settings could be a war/battle field, or one specific example was jumping on cloud to cloud and more references to Super Mario.
This then tells me that it is gaming that is having this effect on the children and not the learning. Therefore inn order to reach the specific problem i have got no other choice than to reword/change the original question!
the areas of interest, are no longer between the thinking and learning of children compared to traditional methods. It has shifted towards, socialisation, gaming and parenting.I will have a think about the re-worded question and post it on the blog at a later date.
However the most interesting pieces of information that was called to my attention from the previous artefacts, which was the socialisation of children. Mrs White had explained that she has seen a significant difference with the way children talk, play and write.
She explained that children were less social in the playground there is more fighting (play fighting) specifically between the young boys. They often used text messaging abbreviations in their writing such as, you/U and LOL for laugh out loud.and finally there is more references to gaming in their story writing, for example the settings could be a war/battle field, or one specific example was jumping on cloud to cloud and more references to Super Mario.
This then tells me that it is gaming that is having this effect on the children and not the learning. Therefore inn order to reach the specific problem i have got no other choice than to reword/change the original question!
the areas of interest, are no longer between the thinking and learning of children compared to traditional methods. It has shifted towards, socialisation, gaming and parenting.I will have a think about the re-worded question and post it on the blog at a later date.
Artefact 3
After artefact 2 i am a little stuck as to where to go. It seems that there is not a problem with learning technologies in primary schools. This is interesting for me because my research question has been dismissed!
My Question:
How can new technologies be used to enable new ways of thinking and working to enhance the learning in a primary school environment, when compared to traditional methods?
I was trying to prove that technologies were not helping children advance in learning however I have been proved wrong. My research document concluded that there where both good and bad traits for technological learning. I then asked Mrs White who believed that technology was helping the students, which was also the view of 90% of the teachers in the survey...
my results from the first artefact also show that during school time the children are not sat in front of a computer for any significant amount of time. 1-3 hours a week was the set standard, and therefore i do not believe that this is a significant enough amount of time to have any effect. I was expecting that children would be using computers 1-3 hours a day!
My Question:
How can new technologies be used to enable new ways of thinking and working to enhance the learning in a primary school environment, when compared to traditional methods?
I was trying to prove that technologies were not helping children advance in learning however I have been proved wrong. My research document concluded that there where both good and bad traits for technological learning. I then asked Mrs White who believed that technology was helping the students, which was also the view of 90% of the teachers in the survey...
my results from the first artefact also show that during school time the children are not sat in front of a computer for any significant amount of time. 1-3 hours a week was the set standard, and therefore i do not believe that this is a significant enough amount of time to have any effect. I was expecting that children would be using computers 1-3 hours a day!
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