Eda201W Assignment 01 Semester 01

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Question 1 1.1 In order to engage the current generation of “wired” and increasingly “wireless” students, various strategies can be employed in order to engage these learners successfully. Some of the strategies that I would employ are as follows: • I would ensure that the learning environment is interactive and participatory. • I would make use of various technological as well as online resources such as “videos, podcasts or other forms of multimedia” (Coetzee & van Niekerk, 2015: 9) in the classroom for my own presentations. • I would design activities and assignments where the learners themselves have to create content such as videos, blogs, online documents, articles or presentations. • I would encourage the learners to make use of social networking tools such as Facebook groups, comment sections on blogs or YouTube thus enabling them to create their own learning communities and effectively engage with one another’s work. • I would start my own blog to which learners can subscribe, where I would post assignment instructions, interesting supplementary content, class updates and projects. 1.2 The classroom management approach that I follow in order to form a healthy classroom environment the “Group managerial approach”. My reasoning behind this is that since learners will spend their entire school careers in a classroom environment with a large group of people, it would be to their advantage to see the group as a positive place to be where they can relate and engage with one another and work together toward success. This is as opposed to them possibly viewing the classroom as a competitive environment and viewing other students as competitors or obstacles to their own success. As Coetzee and van Niekerk state in “An Educator’s Guide to Effective Classroom Management” (Second edition, 2015: 41) “By fostering a sense of ‘allegiance to the group’ among

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