Impact of Creating a Website on Pupils

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Impact of Creating a Website on Pupils Learning

• Action Research Case Study Mary OShea

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Overview

• Co-educational School
• 27 pupils
• 11 12 years of age
• 8 month period
• Action Research Framework

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Approaches

• Recommended
• Process approach
• Practice
• Drill practice
• Rote Learning
• Product rather than process
• Recreational games
• Discretionary addition

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The Internet

• Global accessibility
• Roles
• Tutor
• Publishing house
• Forum
• Navigator
• Publishing Forum
• Disolves artifical wall class/real world
• Easy acess to information
• Realism
• Authenticity

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How?

• Deploy new technologies in education environment
• Integrate into curriculum
• Investigate and document best practices

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The Project

• Web site creation
• WWW publishing house forum
• To evaluate
• Facilitate student-centered learning?
• Allow for Constructivist approach to Learning
• Opportunity for Collaboration, Open Discussion,
  Styles of questioning
• Enhance literacy skills
• Real audience
• Topic student driven
• Enhances students research skills

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The Project

• To ascertain pupils
• problem-solving techniques
• critical thinking skills
• communication tools and techniques
• information skills and strategies
• tools and techniques for working with others
• designing skills and techniques
• publishing skills and techniques

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Action Research
2.ACTING

1.PLANNING
3.OBSERVING

5.CHANGE
4.REFLECTING
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Resulting Themes

• Constructivism
• Peer Collaboration
• Peer Tutoring
• Literacy Skills
• Self- Esteem and Motivation
• Negative Factors

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Consequences

• Learning Environment
• Pupil development
• Proactive teachers
• Use of technology
• Supportive
• Enabling
• Liberating

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Findings

• the sharing of ideas that took place in a group
  settings
• the development of social as well as cognitive
  skills
• persistence and hard work.
• teamwork and precision when presenting
  information on the WWW.
• the need to maintain the relevance of the topic
  and the clarity of the layout
• technical research design, and critical thinking
  skills.
• independent in their learning

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Recommendations

• Role of technology
• Teachers
• Educational goals v Technological goals
• Laptops
• Keyboard skills development through content
• Internet skills development through content
• Pupil responsibility
• Working in groups
• Planning
• Assessment