FS 2 Learning Episode 14

Description

LEARNING EPISODE 14 UTILIZING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure toread through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2Resource Teacher’s class. Note all the information you will need and tasks you willneed to do before on this episode.

Target Your Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Learning Episode, I must be able to:

 Identify the components of an LMS as a virtual learning environment.  Demonstrate skills in using a learning management system (LMS) as a platform for teaching and learning. (PPST 4.5.1)  Demonstrate positive attitude towards use of technology tools. (ICT CST 7.1.2)  Use professional reflection and learning to improve practice. (PPST 7.4.1)

Clarify Your Task

The learning environment has recently radically changed. No one would have anticipated that a pandemic would shift the four corners of the brick-and-mortar classroom to the four corners of a computer screen, a tablet, or even a cellphone! While we believe teachers should be competent in organizing and using resources in a physical classroom, a future teacher must be adept in utilizing technology to set up, design, work and teach in a virtual classroom.

A virtual classroom is usually supported by a platform generally regarded as a learning management system (LMS) in a flexible learning modality involving online learning.

LMS is a course organizer software. It helps teachers plan, create, manage, and deliver online education programs (Habulan, 2016.) The most common ones are Canvas, Moodle, Google Classroom, Blackboard, Microsoft teams, Seasaw, and our local one is Genyo.

As you have learned from your Technology for Teaching and Learning classes, Learning Management Systems have features and functions that help teachers manage an online classroom. These features and functions are called by different names depending on the LMS platform. Below are some of the LMS common features and functions and tasks that teachers are able to use:

1. Dashboard- allows the teacher to see all his/her class/course cards; 2. Module Container- uploads modules and organize them 3. Sandbox- a workspace that will enable teachers to make drafts or explore the functions and practice setting up a subject or course. 4. Announcements- communicate with students regarding instruction, reminders and changes 5. Discussion boards- set up discussion boards; make students collaborate 6. Meeting rooms – allow the teacher to present lessons and discuss with students synchronously; enables learners to collaborate on a task/project 7. Assignment- allows orderly giving and scoring assignments 8. People- see who are the members of the class, get to know the learners more through their profiles 9. Assessment/Quizzes- administer formative and summative assessments 10. Resources and add-ons- share and store files, use apps that support or supplement the other functions of the LMS

Your task in the episode is to participate and assist in a virtual learningenvironment through an LMS. Notice how the teacher organized her virtualclassroom. Apply your skills in facilitating the teaching and learning process byparticipating in one or more of the teacher tasks discussed above.

In this episode, consider what you learned in your technology class about theTPACK MODEL. An effective teacher has technological, pedagogical and contentknowledge, TK, PK, and CK. In planning, setting up, and utilizing a virtual environmentthrough an LMS, these three components interface. You need to have content masteryof what you will teach (CK). You also need to know how to facilitate the teaching-learning process from beginning (gaining students’ attention) to end (assessment andtransfer) (PK); and have technological knowledge (TK).

When you apply your technological knowledge to deliver accurate and relevantcontent using the most appropriate pedagogical strategies in the context of a virtuallearning environment, and the learners achieve the learning outcomes, boom! You havesuccessfully interfaced TPACK! As you work on this episode, actively notice, analyze and reflect on yourexperience. As an FS student, participate and assist well in organizing and using thelearning management system as you apply your technological, pedagogical and contentknowledge (TPACK). Be attentive to your role as a future teacher-researcher as well.Continually discover more effective ways of interacting TPACK. When you do, you will become a teacher that initiates well-thought-of ways to improve and enhance virtualteaching and learning. Revisit the infographic on TPACK and how it relates to LearningManagement Systems (LMS). You may open the LSM sites on the internet to see howthey are structured. You can try-out how the different functions and tools work. It willhelp you recall and focus once more on the various learning management system thatserve as platform for virtual classrooms.

Revisit the Infographic / s Participate and Assist Your guide to participate and assist:

1. Request your FS resources teacher or another teacher who uses an LMS for his/her class to give you access and allow you to, “observe” his/her virtual classroom through the LMS. 2. If possible, request the teacher to demonstrate how to navigate and use the LMS. 3. Ask the teacher how can you participate or assist in tasks that the teacher is organizing or preparing in the LMS. 4. Be guided by the TPACK Infographic in this episode. The questions found there will help you notice, analyze and reflect very well.

Level/Grade of the Class:

Subject:

Lesson or Topic:

Lesson objectives/learning outcomes:

Which LMS did the teacher use: Check one or more that were used.

_____Moodle

_____Schoology

_____Google Classroom

_____Edmodo

_____Genyo

_____See saw

_____others ________________________

What tasks did you participate or assist in? Fill out the table below.

What components or parts were present in the Under these LMS components or parts, whatLMS used by the teacher? tasks did you participate/ assist in? Notice

After you participated or assisted in the LMS, describe what you observed andexperienced by answering the items below.

1. Describe the structure of the LMS utilized by the teacher. How was it organized? What main components did you find?

2. How was the content taught or delivered? How were the learning activities arranged? What strategies did the teacher or you use to help students attain the objectives/outcomes?

3. What was your experience in participating and assisting?

Analyze

1. What do you think are the best features of the LMS that the teacher used? How did these features help the students learn the content?

2. How did the teacher/or you use the LMS to implement the strategies/ activities planned? 3. How did this connect with what you know about LMS and TPACK? 4. What problem or challenges did the teacher/ you or the students encounter in working with the LMS? How did it/ they affect the teacher/learners? What part/s of the LMS do you think can be still be improved? How can this/these be improved?

Reflect

1. How ready are you in organizing and using an LMS? 2. Enumerate the knowledge, skills and attitudes you already have to organize your virtual environment and use an LMs:

Content:

Pedagogical:

Technological:

3. What do you need to learn in order to use the LMS effectively?

Write Action Research Prompts

This part allows you to synthesize or put together what you noticed, analyzedand reflected on to come up with a possible topic for action research.

OBSERVE 1. What problematic situation challenges /area of improvement did you see while you participated and assisted using an LMS? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

List at least three sources that you have read about this problem/challenge.

Resource or Reference about the Topic Key points/findings in what I read

On what theory/principles can this problem be anchored?______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

REFLECT

1. What do I hope to address – the problem/challenge/area of improvement in LSM use? What change do you want to achieve? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

PLAN

2. What strategies/solution/means can you employ to improve the situation//solve the problem? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

ACT

3. If you will conduct action research, what will be the title (Base this on your answers in the nos. 1-3): ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________

Check for Mastery Direction: Read the following questions then select the letter of the correctanswer.

1. Mr. Mahusay is ensuring using the polling feature of the LMS as a strategy to increase participation of his students in their lesson or qualities of national leaders. He is utilizing his _________. A. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) B. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) C. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) D. Content Technology Knowledge (CTK) 2. Ms. Del Rosario is careful to match the learning outcomes with the content and activities she is going to do. She also sees to it that the assessment measures the attainment of the learning outcomes. She is using her _______. A. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) B. Pedagogy Technological Knowledge C. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) D. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) 3. Ms. Juan is utilizing the feature of the LMS to provide regular information updates on the topic she and her students are exploring. She is using _____. A. Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) B. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) C. Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) D. Content Technology Knowledge (CTK) 4. All are true about learning management system, EXCEPT A. Has components and features that teacher can use in teaching B. Is a platform for a virtual learning environment C. Microsoft office is an example of this D. Canvas is an example of this 5. Through the LMS, the teacher can do the following tasks, EXCEPT. A. Post assignments and projects B. Set up discussion boards C. Make students collaborate D. Meet students face to face

Work on my Artifacts

Attach pieces of evidence of what you accomplished in this episode.