Work @ TAFE

The group activities that we ran in class on Friday seemed to work really well! Although not all participants were keen to work in the larger groups, everyone seemed to interact quite well and “socially construct” their knowledge together I spent quite a bit of time on Wednesday trying to build the learning around a social constructivist philosophy.

The paired activities went well too. Participants came up with designs for a database scenario and posted their designs to the discussion forum I had set up, before posting comments on each others designs. We were able to use these to discuss 1st and 2nd Normal form for databases! This was really exciting for me - to see learners discovering the database theory in the context of their own database designs!

Hopefully I can become a bit more efficient in creating similar activity-based learning sessions!