Transformational Teaching

After viewing the webinar on the pedagogy wheel, I have mixed feelings. The presentation itself was not what I expected. I felt that I was missing a lot of the information because it was not in the form of a video that would have explained each slide and its relevance to the overall presentation. That being said, did find some good take aways from the presentation. The pedagogy wheel that Allan Carrington was talking about throughout the slides is a good way to support tech integration in the classroom.
The wheel focuses on 5 midset grids which can help students to understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. These grids on the wheel provides teachers with a combination of verbs, activities and apps that support each learning grid. Each mindset supports and develops another. These skills are ones that are used everyday. At the center of the wheel is immersive learning. Students need to be hands on and develop these skills properly to use them effectively.
Carrington describes  how to use the wheel most effectively in the webinar. He describes the process as a series of moving gears. There is the attributes gear that helps the teacher think about revisiting their methods and design to support the individual attributes of students. The motivation gear works towards autonomy, mastery, and purpose in student work. The teacher has to guide the students into independent work that is meaningful and understood in the process. The blooms gear focuses on Bloom's taxonomy that incorporates the levels of blooms taxonomy into the lesson to promote higher level thinking. The technology gear focuses on finding apps with a purpose rather than wasting time with apps that don't support student growth. Finally, The SAMR model develops the thinking behind the choice of an app. This forces teachers to think of the possibilities for the use of apps in the classroom in a functional and developmental manner.
Overall, this wheel, when used correctly, can support a lot of teachers that are struggling to find ways to integrate technology into the classroom. The wheel supports all of the tasks and learning that teachers need to cover throughout the year and supports those goals with app suggestions. The teachers are also provided with rating rubric for the apps that can be shared or used to determine what apps should be used in the classroom. Adding technology into the classroom, using flipped classrooms and effectively using apps can transform teaching in learning in the classroom.