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Hi and welcome to the home page of my Wiki, my name is David Turner, I am a third year student at JCU Townsville studying Education Vocation.

In the past I have worked in various areas ranging from Timber Mills, Kitchen Manufactures, the Aerospace Industry, Architectural Furniture and Furniture Industry, Department of Corrective services and recently as an Adult Educator in the TAFE sector. I believe that my past experience in these varied areas will be of benefit to my Teaching Career.

During my study time at JCU I have been exposed to various pedagogical theories or teaching styles, such as Behaviourism, Structuralism, Cognitivism. The pedagogical theory that best explains my teaching style is Constructivism. I will be teaching primarily in the Technology Industry, with my second area being SOSE as I love history and geography. I believe that by first teaching students some basic skills that will provide them with the knowledge they need to enable them to incorporate these known skill sets to build new knowledge. I envisage that this scaffolding process will enable me to transfer from the role teacher to that of facilitator or adviser, encouraging the students to become life long learners. I have embarked upon the learning process of constructing this Wiki for the purpose of becoming a lifelong learner in the use of ICTs not just in the school environment but also for my own benefit. As I am a ‘Digital Migrant’ as opposed to what Marc Prensky (2001) describes as a ‘Digital Native’ a person who has been born into the digital age surrounded by Information Communication Technology.

The main purpose of this Wiki is to show how these ICT’s can be used across the Curriculum. The two Key learning areas that will be featured in this Wiki will be Technology Industry and Social Science (SOSE). Within these areas the focus will be on investigating and sustainability with The SOSE component looking at Feudal Japan and the Technology area looking at the use of sustainable material in the use of the manufacture of a study. My reasoning for incorporating these areas in this Wiki is due to experiences I had while completing two weeks practical experience at a local high school. I was involved and observed these two subjects being taught and on reflection concluded that the use of ICTs would have benefited the delivery of these two subjects.

The focus of the SOSE subject will be inquiry based, the students are to develop a power point presentation and launch it on Voice Thread to enable peer collaboration also the students will make a personal blog where they will describe either a person or aspect of Feudal Japan.  

The focus of the investigation in the Industry area is the use and sustainability of Plywood and Plantation Timber which has been recommended for use in a design component in the Learning Federation websi te.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">I believe that these learning activities relate well to three areas of Blooms Taxonomy, the three areas being Knowlege, Comprehension and Analysis. Please Click on the Curriculum page to continue. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thank you.