Reflective+Practice



Integrating my practice

//**A Reflective Opportunity **// To summarise your learning during this seminar, we ask you to reflect on how you or your organisation can better integrate educational technologies into your own practice. You will produce an reflective framework which you may wish to use as an artefact for your portfolio.

All teachers are required to meet the //Registered Teacher Criteria// as set out by the New Zealand Teachers Council (2009), in order to qualify for teacher registration. The following slide show identifies how effective e-learning practices can contribute to the evidence that an individual teacher is meeting these standards. For school teachers, it is important to align your practice with teacher registered criteria to meet the evidence requirements for gaining and renewing full registration. e-Learning technologies, have affordances not just for learning, but also for compliance and administration.
 * Being a 'good' teacher: **

Before you read the reading, take time to reflect ... //**How does the implementation of e-learning into your practice provide administration and/or compliance affordances?**// media type="custom" key="17564956"

Reading:
This article by Graham and Dziuban, (2006) poses many key questions with regard to blended learning environments. It addresses core issues facing the integration of technology in terms of learning effectiveness, student satisfaction, cost effectiveness and access. The reading will support your reflection and thinking towards achieving a successful blended teaching and learning environment. [|Graham and Dziuban (2006) Blended Learning Environments.]

Our intention here is to support you to create an artefact. Throughout this course we have aligned our practice and contexts to the learning we have engaged in. It is time now to contemplate the implications of our learning and construct a way forward to achieve personal goals in e-learning.
 * Reflective action plan: **

How can we integrate technology into learning in our context?

Lets go back to the e-Learning framework (Ministry of Education, 2011) we introduced at the beginning of the seminar. We will use this tool to support our reflective task. The video explains the intent of the framework. [|Video source]

[|E-Learning Planning Framework]

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We have produced a template from the framework and have also included the framework's rubric to support you as you reflect from a personal and organisational perspective.


 * Task:**
 * 1) Using the template provided below, indicate the phase you or your organisation are at, with an indicator that places your response there.
 * 2) Alongside, outline an intended action that will shift capability to the next level.
 * 3) You may wish to share your artefact through the forum discussion post by attaching a file or otherwise please post a summarising statement (200 words) on our Massey Stream describing what you have recognised and how you or your organisation can respond.

NB. It may not be necessary to fill in all the boxes as some aspects might pertain more to the organisation than yourself personally. Feel free to be adaptive and redesign the template for your own purposes. We hope that this activity supports you to create an artefact for your portfolio.

Click on the link below to open the template which includes the rubric on page 2.