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Children, on-line learning and authentic teaching skills in primary education |
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About Teaching Teaching involves the use of a pedagogy in which the teacher provides two major contributions:
Explicit teaching Teaching supports learning in different contexts. Explicit teaching provides specific scaffolding for the learning of particular knowledge. Mediation is provided in this context as required.
Teaching as facilitation At the other end of the teaching spectrum is facilitation of open-ended learning tasks. The balance between scaffolding and mediation in this context depends on the respective value placed on the products, experiences and knowledge (learning) involved.
Negotiated study A negotiated study may be placed at various points along the teaching spectrum depending on what is being 'negotiated': product, experience and/or knowledge.
Behaviour Management Scaffolding of behaviour includes rules, agreements, contracts, coaching, prompts, visual measures such as signals, consequences as implemented by the school or teacher, eg, time-out, suspension. Mediation of behaviour includes conferencing, feedback, improved awareness of the implications including formal and natural consequences.
Illustrations The following images 'illustrate' the nature of scaffolding and mediation in learning to dance and (in the second image) learning to develop meaning from the experience of dancing.
In more abstract form In a more elaborate form the following model may be helpful: consider the above in terms of the following process outline
Teaching with ICT Technology of all kinds is used to scaffold activity. Since information and communication are fundamental to scaffolding and mediating learning, ICT can be used to scaffold some aspects of learning activities. In particular see
Mediation generally requires some interaction/communication with another party in order to provide enlightening responses to existing knowledge, activity, experiences and products. The communication aspect of ICT may provide the means for mediation is a wide range of circumstances. See teaching processes and teaching online |
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