The History Teacher;xNLx;Perwin Mohan is a teacher of history at the R.D. Simonsschool. The R.D. Simonsschool is a secondary school situated in the heart of Paramaribo, ;xNLx;the capital of Suriname. As a teacher he started working in October 2003 at Mulo Latour also a secondary school in the south of Paramaribo.
We officially started on 12 January 2015 with professor Fred Mennick from the USA and professor Wim Mees from Belgium. Day one was a Film Festival with some short educational and informative films
I made my Canvas account. We got instructions on how to build a free blog. There were a lot of options. I have chosen for weebly.com because in my opinion in weebly you can make your blog in a very easy way.
We did some work as a group. Our assignment was to make a poster with the following structure"What Would an Ideal 21st Century Classroom Look Like in Suriname?"
We got information about technology and resources, safety about Facebook, how to embed files on your blog etc. Siho tools : ICT tools in Dutch
It was hard working in module 2 with professor Padhu from the George Mason University. I have learned a lot during this module. Subjects like brainstorming techniques, Scamper, Google sketchup, Toondoo, Design thinking, Six hats etc. Our final project was a group project. We had chosen the tourism project.
Module 3 was about Self - Regulated Learning. Karen gives us an overview of Self Regulated Learning: What it is en why it is important for us as a teacher. We got a lot of reading to do but it was interesting At the end we got an assignment to make a lesson plan.
Module 4 - Effective and Efficient Teaching using ICTs This was the pedagogical part of the course. This was a very tough part of the course. There was a lot of discussion during the module about teaching in an effective and efficient way but the assignment was honestly very difficult.
The PROBLEM-SOLVING and SIMULATION module with Professor Padhu was not easy. We worked very hard. The biggest challenge was the Goldberg Machine. We also did Google Sketchup.
In module 6 we got an assignment to make a 1 minute video to show what we had learned in year 1. It was a first year review video. We also had to update our blog.
Professor Fred gave us the choice to to do an online course at Open2Study online courses. I chose the agriculture course. I learned a lot about agriculture done in a modern way. This course was an eye opener for me. We Surinamese have to leave the old way of doing agriculture and have to become more modern to get more benefit of it. If we invest in agriculture then we as Surinamese can feed the Caribbean.
In module 8 I did a group project with my team. We chose for Inquiry Based Learning. For this module we made a video and a flip board assignment. Personally I liked the inquiry based learning because it triggers students to go into the dept of the material. Fast students can use this learning style to get more out of the matter.
During this module we learned about drones and assembly. Also, we got a demonstration about 3D printing and possibilities of 3D printing. We did the STREAM project during module 9 at KKF with Professor Padhu.
This is one of best modules till now. I liked it very much. In the beginning the new lesson plan was a mystery, but after I managed to understand it, I didn't want to return to the old one.
Our topic for this module was Krin LIba. Its means clean the river. We all know that the Suriname river has be pulloted by our own Surinamese people. There is a lot plastic bottles and plastic floating in the Suriname river. The main question during this module was what can we do to clean the river. Our solution was dotiman campage, to create a super hero that can stop further pollution of the river. The second topic was peace with peace in our mind we can get whole world. War divides us and peace bring us together.
I learned how to write a project. Too many frustrations, but we did it.
Before this module I had heard about Pedagogy, but I had never heard about Andragogy. Working with children and working with adults are two different things. I think for me it's a challenge.
The PAR project gives me the opportunity to do my dream research. The main question about this research was: how did students of the primary school with a math problem perform at the secondary school? The results of this research was surprising read the whole paper on my blog: http://purrymohan.weebly.com/participation-action-research.html
I worked with Julian MacLean, Miguel Cramer and Raoel Bergen on an mobile application project. For our project assignment by professor Padhu Sheshaiyer we have chosen to build an application (app). it is based on the hello Purr App of the appinvertor.mit.edu platform. We used several frameworks to finally reach the definitive design of the app. Some frameworks that we used are 6-3-5, The Bono's Hats and Design Thinking. I feel honored that I was given the opportunity to use one of my lessons to start building and testing the app. My contribution to building this app is that I was part of some fierce discussions together with my teammates about the effectivity and workability of the app. I also worked together with the others on the design of the app and its functionality. After the app started working according to our specifications, I had tried out by some students and colleagues. They then gave feedback about the app and how they experienced it. The students as well as the teachers were enthusiastic that such an app even existed and that they would make good use of it. They also expressed that they would like to see similar apps in the future designed specifically for education which will make teaching more pleasant. I am proud to be part of a group that we were able to build this app without continuous guidance. We only got hold the basics and despite that we were able to achieve . This is quite an achievement, I think.
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