IFI7031 - Aktiivõpe informaatikatunnis

In my work today I wish to analyze several videos about informatics active learning, which were create by  students for the „Active learning of Informatics“.

First I would like to take video of Mari-Liis Viet and her team. I want to explain why I take it first. It is because this informatics lesson in unusual then others. We all accustomed that informatics lesson are in the special classroom with computers and where each has his own place with a needed instruments and most of time pupils work individually. But everything was differently at such lesson: students divided on three groups and worked together, it was usual classroom where they worked, there are no computers except the student’s laptop. It is very important and interesting, because we could see that some part of informatics without computers. It shows how flexible and multipurpose could be such lessons and it is possible to use different ways and methods to learning informatics, because informatics is not mandatory make somewhat using only computers. I would be put maximum points for such lesson.

 

Second video which I want to analyze is video of Triinu Pääsik and her team. We can see the informatics lesson in usual computer classroom. Lesson is organized as team work: 3 teams, 3 object, 3 tasks. Lesson is going very activity, teacher and pupils are every time ongoing, pupils discussing about theme, teacher is looking after them and answering for their questions. For learning pupils use very interesting Internet recourse named Padlet which allow them to work used common online desk and they can see what other team do, but because every team has their personal task, nobody could make copy from another team. I think it is very productive and interesting lesson especially for pupils. But one thing that is looked strange for me – the lessons theme. Technology is too wide area and it means rules, methods, processes and actions for creating something for all areas in our life (for example cooking and teaching are also technology). Internet and Bluetooth are a technology, but mobile phone and computer are technics. Sorry may be it is I am something misunderstood – I am non-professional in teaching as you, but I think that such theme is more suitable for  gymnasium (10-12 class), where could be more detail explained about it. It is only my meaning.

Of cause lesson with such structure is more useful than just teachers explanation and that is why I would put for this maximum points.      

 

 

Third video which I want to analyze is video of Katrin Shults and her team. In this video we can see how informatics is used to study other subjects like Estonian in the small country school. I like it very much because we can see could be very productive use informatics lessons or just computer class to help pupils learn another subjects. There are not many pupils and they make something like a comics in Estonian. It  is a primary class and that is why it is very usefull for them make something visual. From that they can study using their creative thinking. Such lessons could be very necessary in situation where there are little money in school budget to organize separately informatics lessons. But for such method, school need teachers, who can use and teach using computers at an appropriate level.

In association with everything told, for such video I would put maximum points.