Justin Borland - Digital Pedagogy

Learning about web sites has been challenging, I am finding it to be not only important but also crucial for my pedagogy as a professional educators in the 21 st century. I spent a lot of time reading and scrolling through YouTube looking to improve my own website/bloggers page. I am trying to improve my capabilities in ICT as we progress. The biggest benefit I have found so far while journeying through websites was google blogger and Microsoft teams. Being able to connect and collaborate with your fellow students has been a blessing and has help me extremely. Being able to read and share thoughts in a team-learning environment has certainly boosted my learning, linking with Judy Willis' “knowledge of the brain and learning” (Willis, 2011). As for me it was positive motivation, which helped me progress when I was facing a barrier as a learner. I found it extremely fun to set up my blog page and to customise it to my liking. I found it challenging to use at first but after spe...

  What are the Pedagogical Principles (defined in the Learning Materials)? 1. Facilitating deep knowledge through higher order thinking   2. Facilitating collaborative learning in which conversations are important 3. Supporting students in knowing how they learn best  4. Planning learning that is problem-based, and situated in real life contexts  5. Is relevant to students, and connects to their background knowledge  6. Supports learning that is owned, controlled and managed by students themselves  7. Is socially supportive, engaging, and values cultural knowledges  8. Is supportive of the development of active citizenship, and strong group identity. What do the Pedagogocial Principles mean to you in common language? The Pedagogocial Principles to me mean. that as teachers the way we teach is our art. We must contiually grow with our students as we strive to grow our capabilities and minds. As professional educators of the 21st century our art ha...

 Hello everyone my name is Justin Borland, I've been working as a youth worker/SSO at John Pirie Secondary School for the past 5 years and my goal is to become a secondary teacher.  ICT is forever changing and as professional teachers we need to constantly update our capabilities while adapting to these changes in order to broaden our ways of delivering content to our students. In doing so we will maximise engagement and enhance student learning.  Most students of the 21st century have been heavily involved with technologies since a very young age, being a professional teacher means being able to use these technologies to connect and deliver content. Teachers of the 21st century will need to become tech savvy and open minded to all the rapid changes they will occur at the start and throughout ones career.  I'm super keen on this unit as I've seen how effective teachers can be when using ICT capabilities. I feel confident that as students become more diverse in the wa...