Perhaps the greatest lesson I have learnt in this course is that I now have a call to transform our school learning environment (its systems and infrastructure; its teaching - approaches, methods, techniques) to adjust to innovations that bring about effective learning. The centre word here being innovation which, if I am not mistaken, is the them of this course. Much as we strive to use technology as and when it comes, it is important to note that innovation is very key in the use of technology effectively. Innovation geared at using technology in a way that enhances learner engagement is very important because at the end of the day it leads to formulation of a school wide approach which is focused at student centred learning.
Teachers in the groups or as individuals need to arrange their teaching learning activities in a way that enhances learner collaboration and engagement. They as teachers need to collaborate among each other to come up with joint knowledge on best practices when it comes to teaching and learning. Coupled with this, teachers need to find out ways of allowing the children they teach to construct knowledge with little or no interference by the teacher. This knowledge building approach has the capacity of making the learners exercise their own innovation potentials and makes new ideas spring to the surface.
Perhaps the most challenging element of this course was coming up with an assessment criteria to assess innovation. It involves coming up with a criteria for gauging the process of knowledge construction which would ideally call for looking at each step undertaken to reach the main stage. The other thing that it involves is a way of assessing the product which is the final outcome of the innovation.
I can confidently say that I can now make a lesson plan which is rich with innovation and even design a criteria for measuring the innovation in our learners without much ado.
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