EDU1ICT Digital Portfolio

Introduction

My name is (Student Name) and I am enrolled in the Bachelor of Early Learning at La Trobe University Bendigo. The new campus life begun through making friends and the oncoming challenges that I met. It’s been my wish to change the course but not only after a couple of factors to consider I realized that the teaching course is my best since it has always been my childhood dream. After my final examination and the graduation, I would wish to concentrate more with the children, Tizard et al (2017). Engaging in community projects service is an important step in providing a long lasting positive impact on the society. In every society, there are a lot of community problems that each one of us has a role to step up and address. I believe it is our responsibility as humans to step up for our brothers and sisters who are in need and the whole community in order to make a positive difference in their lives. Before I started community projects, the thought of it was a boredom. It is only when I started volunteer work that I realized that it was not what I expected.

Interest and professional aspirations

It came to my realization that community projects have benefits to the participants and the community at large. In this paper I seek to discuss how participating in a community projects led to my personal growth. It is two years now since I offered as a volunteer at a non- profit organization. The organization focused on raising funds to help the poor, orphans, the disabled and many people who were challenged in the society. In this period, I cannot say I feel any regrets, but I feel more rejuvenated and proud that I have performed a lot of exercises that have changed lives of thousands of needy people. I just feel that it’s time for that undecided person to join a community project to feel how good it is joining a community service, how it motivates people in the society and how it leads to personal growth.

When I was young, my mother – a mentor, thought me the virtue of giving more than I receive. She was always kind to every needy person. We used to visit a children’s home once a month, and sometimes she could take me to hospitals to see how some people are suffering. I think it is that that motivated me to join the community project. My slogan was “Do anything Positive”.

I wanted to focus at first the introduction of websites, blogs, e-portfolios and online forums into the doctorate Programme. It was felt that these ICT developments would be beneficial for doctoral students to enable communication and collaboration, Zheng, B., Niiya, M., & Warschauer, M. (2015). In chronological order, an online forum was set up in October 2006 enabling communication amongst doctoral students at WIE. This online forum was supported by a Google group which was created and is currently maintained by doctoral students. The idea of introducing an online forum came up during the formation of Warwick Institute of Education Graduate Researcher Association (WIEGA). The work carried out on the website began after the first cycle of reconnaissance in November 2006. The research degrees’ intranet website can be accessed at www.go.warwick.ac.uk/wiedoc. The roles of the action researcher in this study I have played three roles: doctoral student, web developer and project officer. These roles bring their own objectives, motivation and ways of working. These roles have enriched the research process and at the same time they have added complexity into the study. I have attempted to work through the action research cycles from these three perspectives.

As a researcher (or project officer), I wanted to contribute to the understanding of the merging of education and technology. By this means I hoped to contribute to the body of knowledge on the topic of online learning, Collins, A., & Halverson, R. (2018). This represented a challenge, as it involved questioning my own paradigms about what we think of the doctorate process, the ways to do research, and how we learn.

As a doctoral student, I wanted to investigate how to support doctoral students during their studies; and to plan, design, implement and evaluate ways to provide this online support. It was challenging, rewarding and interesting to work with and for other doctoral students. Especially so when I was going through the same doctorate process as them.

 As a web developer, I wanted to be involved and participate in the development of useful and effective online support for doctorate research. It was motivating to encapsulate the experience and to address the needs of doctoral students to whom this online support has to be useful and also the needs of a researcher to whom this work should be meaningful.

Use of ICT 

The developments realized in many more other countries is now seen as a factor of evidence for the increased national Gross Domestic Profit and its contribution is immensely of importance. ICT sector acting as an enabler, has resulted to the improvement in the competition for the market for the products and the services. The impacts felt from the ICT sector comes along with some many more benefits to other sectors of the economy. Through all this, the following achievements can be realized:

• The assistance of the economical international integration.
• Improving the standards of living
• Narrowing the digital divide and
• Improving the utilization of the biodiversity and management.

The national policy makers need to address the divide digitally which is characterized by the deviation in the access levels to the use of the ICT together with its manifestation both at the domestic and the international levels. The key sectors that utilizes the ICT effectively through focused in order to narrow down the digital divide and the reduction of the poverty level through: Education, industry and the agricultural sectors.

Teaching Moment

All through my younger tender age, it’s been my desire to be a teacher. As days went by and by, however, I began to get the impression that becoming a teacher wouldn’t be challenging enough for me or wouldn’t be reaching high enough to match my academic performance. Even as I entered the profession, I continued to believe that teaching was easy. I came to understand about elective instructor accreditation programs that upheld underserved understudies and was roused to have any kind of effect. My "Aha! Moment" as an instructor came not without a moment's delay, but rather all through since the first time I attended the class. My oversimplified comprehension of the training calling couldn't have been more off base. My energy about what it takes to be a viable educator currently originated as a matter of fact, something that is unrecognized, Biesta, G. J. (2015).

A significant number of my English Language Learner understudies required vocabulary bolster, and my understudies with IEP objectives required alteration on assignments of all shapes and sizes. I understood there are unmistakable ways to deal with demonstrate a class. My own special guidance contained sitting in allotted seats, in segments of work regions, where we took notes, and got evaluated homework. When I began training, my default approach resembled what I had experienced. I a little while later found that not only did I have to fuse different sorts of instructional frameworks, anyway that it was imperative in case I would make adjusting all the all the more enthralling for all. Thereafter, I discovered small assembling direction, blended learning, exploratory learning and diverse frameworks to serve unmistakable learning modalities. In spite of the way that testing, this is the way by which my training improved and my understudies created. I saw how instructing is extremely a workmanship and a science.

EYLF learning outcome.

The outcome of this study was that an improved pace of construction of the cognitive process, Keegan, L. (2016). The involvement of the children in the physical activities made all the children get the sense of identity. Throughout the study I came to see a number of children playing their games and I could realize some developing emotionally. The temperatures within the classrooms showed a variation especially in their ability tasks completion. Some other children were frustrated and the challenges seem to be beyond their limits although others could easily get out of the trap successfully and a feeling of valuable wellbeing leading to a higher self-esteem. The evident that the vital learning time is the children’s development stage. Having realized that the children could easily get the sense of the self-esteem it was an added advantage in achieving the planned work plan. The schedule resulted to a much more benefits as the children were able to notice some dangerous animals like the snakes during the physical education.

Conclusion

To conclude, in moving towards the inquiry supported by the ICT in science, there is no single pathway that is clear for one to follow. All the knowledge funds within the classroom brought by the students, the teacher’s experience, the technological availability level in the school and finally the student’s ability are all considered the determining variables of the nature of the experience.

References

Biesta, G. J. (2015). Beyond learning: Democratic education for a human future. Routledge.

Collins, A., & Halverson, R. (2018). Rethinking education in the age of technology: The digital revolution

and schooling in America. Teachers College Press.

Keegan, L. (2016). Growing the pear tree: transforming practice beyond learning outcomes. Educating

Young Children: Learning and Teaching in the Early Childhood Years, 22(2), 42.

Tizard, B., Blatchford, P., Burke, J., Farquhar, C., & Plewis, I. (2017). Young children at school in the inner city. Routledge.

Zheng, B., Niiya, M., & Warschauer, M. (2015). Wikis and collaborative learning in higher

education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 24(3), 357-374