Moving to the partnering Pedagogy

This chapter of Prensky book (2010) was enjoyment to read because it shows how could you as a teacher move to be partnering. Also, it shows us as teachers how can weassessed ourself according to students feeling during the class and our answers to some questions.    

I learned that, moving to partnering helps teacher to concentrate in students’ needs and give much more time to create different instruction, all these because the transformative to be “more of tutor and coach for your students” (p, 31).Moreover, as a successful partnering teacher should see students “in the learning process with different but equal skill sets than their own” (p.32). Furthermore, as a teacher want to enhance partnering in teaching you should treat students with “respect and truest” (p.32) because that would help them to belief in their abilities to learn and share it with class. Also, it would enhance the students to work independently with creation.  

In addition, I enjoy reading the setting up for the classroom to facilitate partnering and my classmates’ answers about this question, it is giving me more things to learn and understand. I believe that setting up the class should be according to the lesson needs. In other words, it should be depending to the activities that will be present in the classroom.

Lastly, the choosimg as a teacher for the partnering level, was importants to me because I did not have any knowledge about that before and the author shows that with good explanation to learn from. Sometimes as a teacher you do not know about all your teaching skills until you read about it.

Verbs and Nouns:   

I learned also that “the skills that students need to learn, practice, and master” (p.45) are the Verbs. On the other hand, the Nouns are “the tools students use to learn to do, or practice the verb” (p.46). This explanation of verbs and nouns is show the using the technology in partnering.   

    Reference

Prensky, M. (2010). Teaching Digital natives. Partnering for Real Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA; Corwin

Podcast and Vodcast
This week was so interested with some complicated issues about the new tools. I really enjoy using these tools and attracted to apply it in my teaching career. From the reading I learned that podcasting “refers to the idea of using an MP3 player, iPod, or even a microphone attached to a computer to record audio” (Johnson, 2o11, p.68). Also, to start using this tool there are difference programs to sing up by using your email account. In the class discussion, I learned that using these tools not including entertainments just, but also, in education, and communication with other people. Also, it is useful to include these tools in educational class, especially for second language students and disability students. I faced some issues to record my sound, so I waited until go back to my home and do it from there. I think that what anyone needs to record “quiet”.
In addition, in class we discuss the idea of how can we as teachers use these tools and I like my classmate suggestions such as sending a weekly lesson plan recorded to students, or record the vocabulary lesson or the weekly poems so students could prepare from the home it that. I also, like using vodcast tools with disability students to record to them a video about the class lesson. However, it is also useful with distance or home classes.
About using these techniques in education, in my country Saudi Arabia teachers used podcast to record all the year poems and handle, or send it to students during the first week of the school, so students could use it to enhance their abilities to present the poems in class. however, I would use it with blogs as teachers, so students can record their sound about class discussion or questions and answers.

Partnering: A pedagogy for the new Educational Landscape

Presently, many teachers like the idea of presenting the class lesson and keeping the students listening and taking notes which is to me, belong to the old school of teaching and known as “direct instruction” (Prensky, 2010, p.10).  This strategy makes students as a banker memorized all the information but forgets it after the exam. However, make the students more engaging in a classroom help their knowledge and critical thinking to improve.

I learn that, partnering is a mutual work among teachers and students with shared respect. According to Prensky(2010), partnering is “ letting students focus on the part of the learning process that they can do best, and letting teachers focus on the part of the learning process that they can do best” (p.13). In fact, I like my classmate Pauline, experiences about practicing partnering in her class for 11 years and I am looking for word to read her blog to learn from her experiences.it is a good teaching strategy to be partnering to your students because this shows them the confident to work and present their thought with respect. When teacher treated her    student as adult and responsible about all his/her works that give them the trust in their abilities.  

In addition, I learn something importing about technology in partnering that needs to “be combined with a new type of pedagogy” (Prensky, 2010, p.17). In the past, I looked to many articles that show how technology failed in classroom, but maybe the reason is the old type of pedagogy as Prensky said or because the lack of use the technology by teachers.     

Unfortunately, in my country we did not use this method often because they still use the “direct instruction”. However, my future goals is using the “partnering” in my teaching style and get the truest from the school and the students to practice that. Also, I learned from my classmates that I can use technology during the class lesson without feeling of replace with it. Thus, thanks for all who I learn from this week

Norah Alsana

Reference

Prensky, M. (2010). Teaching Digital natives. Partnering for Real Learning. Thousand Oaks,        CA; Corwin

            

Blog

Currently, many educators attempt to use Digital tools in their teaching experiences because their interest to involve more students in their class discussion, also to make the class more collaboration to learn. These kinds of tools help students to learn and improve their knowledge of using technology. In other words, using this technology in professional academic learning is more beneficial than only use it in entertainment way. The most common Digital tools for teaching is Blog, which is according to Johnson (2011) “online journal for one’s thoughts, feelings, and ideas” (p.42). This tool helps teachers to insert their thought or comment about their class. Also, it helps them to include explanation or links related to their lesson. To create your own educational blog you just need email account to access and sign up for blog account.  

 In other word, according to my observation and interviewing to some teachers in US, I found that this tool is a good digital tool to adopt in learning environment because students now are more interested to have a variety of technology tools including blogs in their class lesson. I would use blog in my teaching lesson, so I will insert some explanation, links and also questions to help students learn from each other thought. In my country Saudi Arabia, it stills this tool unpopular in the education field, but I will encourage my students by applying this tool in the teaching lesson. I think this tool is useful for the student who did not attend the class, so s/he will find what they miss. Also, if any students have questions or comment, I and the students can help him with a good answer. Moreover, this technology tool is helping the students to reflect their opinion, though, and idea about the class and any suggestion about the future lessons.