4-SQUARE REFLECTION
Faced with different possibilities to enrich the learning experience with ICT in the various stages of a lesson, the 4-Square Reflection can be used as a guide to plan an ICT-enriched lesson. The 4 areas of consideration are instructional approaches, affordances of ICT, thinking skills and 21st century
competencies, and authenticity.
Faced with different possibilities to enrich the learning experience with ICT in the various stages of a lesson, the 4-Square Reflection can be used as a guide to plan an ICT-enriched lesson. The 4 areas of consideration are instructional approaches, affordances of ICT, thinking skills and 21st century
competencies, and authenticity.
Instructional approaches are methods used in the lesson to ensure that the sequence or delivery of instruction helps students learn and allow them to demonstrate their learning in meaningful ways. In selecting the instructional approach, our mentees need to consider the disciplinary context which is the coordination of the technology with the subject-specific pedagogical approaches. For example, Mathematics adopts the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach in the
Guiding Principles for ICT Lesson
Lesson Design
ICT and Global Age Digital Skills
Self-directed Learning (SDL)
Elements:
Collaborative Learning (CoL)
Elements:
Lesson Design
- What do you want students to be able to know and do?
- What thinking skills are involved in your lesson?
- What are the instructional strategies used in the lesson?
- What is the value of the technology used and how does it support the learning process
- How do you know learning is occurring?
ICT and Global Age Digital Skills
- What ICT skills are involved in your lesson?
- What Global Age Digital Skills are being elicited from students in your lesson?
- Creativity and Innovation
- Communication and Collaboration
- Research & Information Fluency
- Critical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Digital Citizenship
Self-directed Learning (SDL)
- Please describe how the students are setting goals and able to identify the learning tasks?
- How were students managing and monitoring their own learning?
Elements:
- Students explore alternatives and make their own decisions
- Students formulate questions and generate their own inquiries
- Students plan and manage their workload efficiently
- Students reflect on their learning and use feedback provided to improve their work
- Students apply their learning in new contexts
- Students learn beyond the curriculum
Collaborative Learning (CoL)
- What elements of collaborative learning do you think your lesson included?
- How were students setting their own goals?
- What are the different roles and tasks your students assumed in the learning activity?
Elements:
- Negotiate and set common goals
- Provide constructive feedback
- Take different roles to achieve group goals
- Reflect on group and individual learning processes
- Work towards completing individual tasks as well as assist the group in achieving the group goal.