JS423- Catholic Social Teaching Resources

Handy Resources for teaching Social Justice in schools...

Here is a link to a great article on how we should implement Catholic Social teaching in the way we work...Essential principles such as Human dignity, solidarity, family unity and subsidiarity are covered in this informative article.

www.uniya.org

Other excellent Catholic Social teaching resources produced by the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council can be found at:

www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au

ED4134 References for Task 2

References:

Smith, M. K. (2002) 'Howard Gardner and multiple intelligences', the encyclopedia of informal education, Retrieved May 21, 2007 from http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm

Workshop.Tapping into intelligences (2004). Retrieved May 23, 2007, from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/index.html

Smythe, Kevin, and Halonen, Jane, (2007) Using the New Bloom's Taxonomy to Design Meaningful Learning Assessments, Applying Assessment Strategies In Psychology, Retrieved May 22, 2007 from: http://www.apa.org/ed/new_blooms.html

Hein, Prof. George E., (1991) Constructivist Learning Theory, The Museum and the Needs of People CECA (International Committee of Museum Educators) Conference, Jerusalem Israel, 15-22 October 1991, Retrieved May 22, 2007 from http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/constructivistlearning.html

Hattie, John (2005) What is the Nature of Evidence that Makes a Difference to Learning? ACER Conference 2005, Retrieved May 21, 2007 www.acer.edu.au/workshops/documents/HattieSlides.pdf

Teachers Workshop

Good link for WebQuests, MI and other practicalities in teaching...

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/index.html

Essential Qualities of a Wiki

Step 1 Learning, thinking, reflecting...

Step 2 Discussion/social interaction

(Vygotsky...enlarge the discussion..interact, share and build UPON knowledge structures)

-A website that can be controlled by the user AND HIGHLY STRUCTURED...UNLIMITED INFORMATION...STUDENTS CAN CONTRIBUTE IN A SYSTEMATIC WAY

- A wiki has a whole series of pages that are linked and coherently organised by hyperlinks

- The words/Information or order of pages can be rearranged to suit the end user

-It is collaborative as different people can conribute their ideas about a certain area

-It is free, simple and accessible to edit or manipulate

- It is monitored and highly accurate and a great source of information

- It is a great place to start looking for informationn

-A new Social platform where information is shared...a good wiki is highly structured!

Why bother with a Wiki?

It is Good for students to express the schemes of their minds in a social setting of interaction, collaboration and cooperation...in a virtual world.

ED4134 Task 2 Sound File: Ave Maria

The Song file that I have chosen from Sonific is a Church Hymn sung by the Benedictine Nuns in France. This ICT supports the following learning styles, as presented by Gardner in his theory of Multiple Intelligences:

Musical/Rythmic: the melody, back round instruments and sounds attract students who have an appeal to learning through music and rhythm.
Interpersonal: listening to the audio as a class and then having an open group discussion on Church music and its significance in their own spirituality.
Interpersonal: students can also have time to listen to the audio individually and reflect on how they understand it to tie into their own spirituality. (Smith, 2002)

This ICT is an engaging way of bringing the lesson to life and exposing the students to a variety of Church music as a part of the Christianity unit in Studies of Religion. Moreover, in line with Bloom's Taxonomy, this ICT can also be used as an evaluative task where students can contrast and compare the value of Church music to secular music. (Smythe, 2007)

Students can also develop their own thoughts and create personal connections to Church music and its relevance to their own spirituality. Implementing audio into the classroom is a great cognitive tool which encourages higher order thinking in that learners are utilising their thinking to evaluate the role of Church music in the expression of their faith. Similarily, just as described in Vygotsky's constructivist theory students can bring their own knowledge and experiences into the classroom discussion and recreate new meaningful knowledge from the social interaction of the students.

Entering items into a Blog

Video: U-tube - email to blog - copy the embed code - paste in HTML

Slide shows: www.slide.com -embed html - paste into HTML (ignore warning).

Inspiration: to save an inspiration file to my Blog I must ... FILE - Export - GIF - Save - Save USB. Then in my BLOG I must ... New Post- Picture icon (add image) - add inspiration article that I saved on my USB (it'll come up as a jpeg file).


Sonific: copy embed, paste into html

Implementing ICT as a good cognitive tool

http://carolyn.jlcarroll.net/BehvCognit.html