Reflection - Session 4

Have I come across any of the pedagogical approach as a student? How was the experience like?

I have experienced a few of the pedagogical approaches as a student. For example, in my secondary school times, I went through project-based learning. I had to do a geography project where our teacher just gave us a topic title and we had to research everything on that.

Usually topics given are just a big umbrella where it leads to many more external factors. It was not easy at that time as we were very clueless and did not know what to do and had no 'direction sense'. We had to learn like when we had to draw our boundaries and when we have to go in depth for information.


What do you think are the relationship of these approaches?

I feel that all of the approaches require a lot of SDL and CL. SDL in the sense students have to find resources or information themselves. CL as at the end of the day they would have to collaborate all the information together or even have peer tutoring.


What roles do ICT play in these approaches?

It is a good tool for students to research for information, store information and present. It is also a good communication tool. Through communication, students would also be able to find out what their peers have done also. In this way, they would be able to exchange information.

Other than that, I feel that ICT would be of different use to different approaches. For example, students would be able to go online for virtual games to do their game-based learning. In project-based learning, ICT would be a good tool to keep track of the project's progress. On the other hand, ICT would be a good search tool for resource-based learning. Lastly, ICT would work well as a collabaration tool cum peer tutoring tool for inquiry-based learning.