Reflective Practise

Reflection Journal (Part 3) The use of Jay, J.K. and Johnson, K.L. (2002) reflective model and Wenger-Trayner, E., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (2015) perspective of Communities of Practice have shaped what I have used in this blog. Descriptive: Activity 3: Inquiry Topic – Networking through different platforms by engaging 21 st century skills of collaboration. The Domain: The internet in general has provided the means to broaden our horizons, to communicate with distant relatives or business associates. It has enabled us to produce different platforms or learning models for people, who have access, to learn and discover different topics or trends of the time. It provides different modes of interaction from video, e-mail and social media. The internet has become one of the most powerful vehicles of knowledge and communication. So enhancing the skills associated with these avenues of networking will engage learning. The Community: My community of learning is made up of ...

Reflective Journal   ( Activity 2 ) The ‘Gibbs Model for Reflection’ highlights a change in my teaching practice and its affects. The descriptive aspect identifies for me the way knowledge is conveyed to better enhance the learning development in the student and their capacity. This in a way makes a comparison between how I was taught and how the students are taught today. “ One of the biggest challenges for education in the 21st century is that our ideas about curriculum are currently underpinned by at least  two quite different epistemologies , or models of what counts as knowledge.” Making way for innovative methods of learning has been at the forefront of my Mindlab journey. This in turn challenges me to incorporate a different kind of mindset in teaching but uses my prior knowledge as a foundation to strengthen that innovative process. I consider my prior learning as a huge part of my reflection, this helps me recognise skills I do have and at the same time skills...