Mobile Phones Wiki Reflection

The mobile phones wiki has definitely increased my awareness of mobile phones and their potential use in the classroom as well as identifying their disadvantages. The activity refreshed my memory of the scaffolding concept of Bono’s Six Thinking Hats.  The thinking hats allow for students to donate not only the facts on a topic but their creativity, emotions and opinions. In addition, the activity had a structure where students processed the information provided generated the table for the six thinking hats and contributed to the table provided in the wiki. Overall, the activity is authentic and supports learning by engaging and embracing the diverse range of students and I am excited to employ it in my classroom relating it to accounting and business content.

Elements of various learning theories are also present in the mobile phones wiki and are identified below:
Constructivism

Bono’s Six Thinking Hats was a scaffolding strategy that drew out facts and ideas from the students. In addition, the activity enabled students to have a text record of the collaboration of bono’s six thinking hats so that the students can return to the record to justify, elaborate & build knowledge.

Cognitivism

Information was provided in different modes to accommodate individual processing and to facilitate transfer to long term memory and the students were required to use their metacognitive skills (Modritsher, 2006). The six thinking hats also had an organisation effect which categorised the information making it easier to remember. Different modes – meta cognitive skills

Connectivism

Students are required to determine important and unimportant information to be included in the six thinking hats and there is allowance for the diverse range of opinions in the activity.