I started off okay. Inclusion is a word I am well familiar with. Innovation also filled my mind with ideas. But implementation? I suddenly realised it would be a good idea to define these words, especially as I've had a sneaky peak at the first TMA and I'm going to be writing 1000 words about one of them. So I've started with a definition (stolen from Google, using the technique one of my sons showed me of typing define: inclusion, etc. into a Google search).
Inclusion:
Definition: The act of being included within a group or structure.- The use of a VLE to tackle rural isolation
- Blended learning for ESOL learners
- MOOC to provide ESOL for Syrian refugees
- Can interactive whiteboards motivate travellers enough to improve achievement?
- A video to raise awareness/funds for Worklink
- How could technology improve teaching, learning and assessment in BSL sessions?
Innovation:
Definition: The act of making changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products.- How could technology improve teaching, learning and assessment in BSL sessions?
- Introducing apps to enable learner voice
- Producing photobooks as RARPA evidence
- Use of QR codes in promoting courses
- An interactive ILP on the VLE
- The case for **** going mobile
Implementation:
Definition: The process of putting a decision or plan into effect.- Dragging **** into the 21st century
- MOOC for early reading – synthetic phonics
- Could **** save money by going Open Source?
- The use of mobile devices in improving Functional Skills achievements
- Embedding interactivity into teaching, learning and assessment
- Implementing Fundamental British Values through the VLE
- Online safety – implementing a cross-organisational community
You've got lots of good ideas - some of your formulations are helping me come up with some of my own. I find it quite hard to separate out inclusion, innovation and implementation. e.g. is 'using reflective journals to improve dialogue between learner and tutor an innovation or implementation?
ReplyDeleteI guess that depends whether for your organisation it is a new way of doing something, in which case I think it's innovation or taking an existing model and actually making it happen, in which case it's implementation. There is a considerable overlap though, I think.
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It's hard to know how best to respond to the suggestion that we comment on each other's ideas so I am trying to respond to everyone in our group by picking my favourite! And in your list the winner is............'embedding interactivity into teaching and learning'. Sometimes colleagues will say to me that of course you can only get students really interacting if they are face-to-face but I see some evidence to the contrary.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit of a laggard, I'm afraid Nicki...but I wanted to say I am super-impressed by your list. I particularly like your idea about online safety. Through the magic of brainstorming / thought-showering it's given me an idea about new student induction and a need to include something about openness (as in digital scholarship). Thank you :-)
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