Assesment Task 1: De Bono’s Hats/Mobile phones

Coming into the digital pedagogy course I now admit I was over confident with my level of digital competency. In the first week being instructed to create a blog and a wiki space quickly knocked my confidence down a couple of levels and had me looking for help pretty quickly! However thanks to the help of a few people (Lady Amanda) I was back on track and ready to start the De Bono’s Hats/Mobile phone wikispaces activity.

In my experience using the De Bono’s Hats/Mobile phone wikispaces activity to collaborate and share our own thoughts of the topic with other students was very helpful and relatively easy to use. Once on the wiki page the instructions were clear and easy to follow for all levels of digital competency. I strongly agree while I was undergoing this task the wikispaces worked well as a flexible tool for this project at every level of the SAMR model.

Also throughout the De Bono’s Hats/Mobile phone activity it allowed me to use the fundamentals of Blooms Taxonomy. The De Bono’s Hat activity encouraged me to use higher order thinking. In the activity I had to evaluate the 5 hats then answer each question with my own opinion. Answering the questions made me engage thinking skills particularly recalling information and prior knowledge.

Overall I believe the wiki spaces website would be a valuable tool for any teacher to use in their classroom. An Activity like De Bono’s Hats/Mobile phone would allow students to practice thinking skills which involve judging and stating an opinion about the information. It is a tool that teachers can use to create and encourage higher order thinking.