The Challenge

‘Innovation’ sounds like such a creative and extraordinary word and you may well be one of those teachers who think it is something unachievable. Being innovative can mean a lot of things, but the most common element to all interpretations of its meaning is that it does not refer to something teachers have been doing for the last 50 years or more. It suggests something different, something that is a response to change. How is the world of your learners changing? How are you responding as an educator? Do these questions make you feel threatened or defensive? Our challenge to you is to make a response to the changing world in the way you teach with technology.

Identify one specific topic you teach and explore how you can teach that topic more “innovatively” with technology and digital resources as support. Then design that lesson.

Assessment

Your assessment for this module will include your interactions with your group. You will see minor assessment activities as you work through the module. Some will refer to your discussions and some to various other activities, including the reflective entries you make in your personal blog about this course. You will see reference to your blog in the “Reflect”  stage of every lesson.

In your final assignment (Lesson 5.9) you will be required to submit a lesson designed to showcase the characteristics of an innovative learning activity. Use that opportunity to implement all the ideas you will have generated in the lessons leading up to the final assignment,