FET5601 Reflective Journal

Saturday afternoon here in beautiful Doha.

I have been studying my Master of Education at USQ for 2 weeks now including 2 weekends. Oh yes I remember weekends. Times when I used to spend a lot of time riding motorbikes, cleaning and servicing motorbikes. The last 2 weekends have been spent studying.

In FET5601, Learning Design for Flexible Contexts, we have been learning about reflecting in and on practice as per Schon, teaching in the knowledge society as per Laurillard, constructivism and constructionism as per Dougiamas, and models for Instructional Design as per McGriff and Seimans.

One of the main problems with study for me has been/is balancing the study with family duties. Speaking of which, it seems I have to go and get some dinner for folks. Back later..

Back a couple of hours and later and soon I will be going to bed..

Work, eat, sleep, study... who could ask for more.. Just pay me and give me some time in there to ride my bikes and I am happy as Larry..

Back to 5601..
So we are currently talking about flexible learning. I was thinking student centered, blended learning etc. Basically in terms purely of eduspeak, you know, the words you use in a staff meeting so they all know you have been doing your homework.. meaningless but socially important.. But then I read some ideas from Anita and Derek talking about teaching classes with varied abilities and using Moodle respectively and the idea came to me like a flash. That is it. There is my project for 5601. I will do some blended learning in my Chemistry class.. Or at least prepare a module allowing for that..
Back to reading now.. always plenty of that..