Leanne Cameron

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Visualising Learning Design with Pre-Service
Teachers

• Leanne Cameron
• Macquarie University
• Leanne.Cameron_at_mq.edu.au

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TEP Course Rationale

• Encourage students to be thinkers, designers and
  life-long learners
• Select and model thoughtful and adaptive
  approaches to learning design
• Realise the potential of Web 2.0 tools
• Plan their integration and effective pedagogical
  use

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We needed to design effective learning
activities that

• Demonstrate a clear relationship between theory,
  research and practice
• Support active participation and student
  engagement
• Encourage critical thinking and reflection
• Employ the collaborative investigation of
  problems
• Enable students to design, author and re-use
  their designs
• Provide opportunities for co-creation of resources

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A LAMS Sequence- How to buy a mobile phone
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• What is the point of writing a lesson plan?

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Their textbook says

• Ensures teachers are better prepared for
  instruction
• Enables them to consider different options
• Assists with evaluating the lesson
• Helps build-up their confidence
• (Marsh, 2004)

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My Students ask

• Does writing a lesson plan really make my
  lesson any better in the classroom?
• To them, written lesson plan paperwork
• But LAMS real lesson

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Why use LAMS?
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LAMS is an excellent scaffold for lesson design
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Allows students to visualise the activity mix
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Enables them to experience the lesson as a
learner
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Creates a standardised template facilitating
re-use
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• Produces more than documentation so students will
  do it

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Learners as Designers

• During these sessions collaboration, peer
  tutoring and workshopping of each others
  sequences was encouraged. Not only did this
  develop students ability to critically evaluate
  peers work, it also helped them reflect on the
  success of their own product.

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Increased Variety of Assignment

• Students who performed poorly in the formal
  written assignment, often achieved excellent
  marks and reported high levels of engagement and
  satisfaction with this (Reynolds).

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• Benefits of using LAMS with THEIR students

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Take advantage of the internet - with control
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Sequence learning activities
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Allow students self-paced tasks
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Establish manageable group work
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Experience comprehensive class discussions
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Conclusion

• Of most value is not the technical skills we
  incidentally teach but rather how we are teaching
  and how we are training our students to think
  about the implementation of technology in their
  own teaching