Reflection regarding my survey for 4A

The feedback I have received so far from my survey suggests that some ICT tools may be of greater use for my enquiry than others.

Most colleagues, students and friends in my special interest group have favoured using DVD clips and video feedback over Power point and I-Movies. My recommendation for showing students professional dance works to further educate and inspire them had positive feedback. I also plan to investigate using video feedback for assessment purposes, an idea which has received mixed reviews from students (some struggling from embarrassment and others keen to self reflect). Power point presentation got mixed reviews with regards to its relevance within the dance studio. Many appear to believe that I-Movies will be too time consuming as part of a dance session and take the emphasis away from the practical elements of dance training. This tool could instead benefit projects in a cross curriculum format?

I will now make adaptations to my questions on reflection of these findings, and strive to survey a wider group of colleagues, students and friends.

Questions for my line of enquiry - 4A

My line of enquiry will be based around exploring the effectiveness of using ICT in dance lessons. I will use a number of ICT tools to include Power point, Video feedback for reflection, DVD clips to observe and analyse dance works and computer programmmes such as I-Movies to edit recorded dance work.

I regonise that I come from a particular persecptive with regards to my intention behind my set of questions. However I wish to acheieve the right feedback to support my line of enquiry. I will strive to create a set of varied questions and plan to survey more widely in order to get valid and realistic views. How many questions should I ask? I will attempt to maintain an open mind in order to improvise new questions that may become relevant to the situation. To make a start here are some questions I have crafted, for your constructive feedback;  

Q1: Do you believe that visual aids can engage students and enhance their learning in dance?

Q2 : Are you be concerned that the use of ICT in a dance lesson may become time consuming, thus taking the emphasis away from the practical training of students?

Q3 : Can you see any value in recording dance work?

Q4 : Would video feedback be a useful method for students to relfect and self-evalaute their own work?

Q5 : DVD clips of professional dance works can be used to demonstrate examples of good dance work to my students. Do you agree with using DVD's in a dance class?

Q6 : I-Movies is a programme which enables students to edit their own recorded dance work. For example they can use it to create their own pop video. Taking into account that this would take them away from the dance studio, where they would instead have some lessons in the computer room, what is your opinion about using this as a tool within dance lessons?

Q7 :  What benefits can a Power Point presentation give to dance students?

Q8 : Dance is a visual art form, so do you think other visual tools such as ICT are necessary?

Q9 : How can ICT support student assessment?

Q10 : What do you think about this proposed topic? In your opinion will ICT be effective for student progress in dance?

I will set up a SIG group for questioning and ask my set of questions to other staff at my place of work, with a priority for individual Media and I.T teachers. As I plan to experiment with the use of ICT in my BTEC dance lessons, the opinion of my students will also be important. So I will question them in small group's for feedback.

Asking Better Questions

I attended the module 2 campus session on tuesday 9th October, which has inspired me to take a new approach to asking questions.

How do I know that the questions I plan to ask for my research are the "right" questions?

Following an intense group discussion about this subject I concluded that questioning is somewhat subjective and driven by intention and personal values.

In order to get a realistic answer it is important to survey more widely, perhaps out of your persoanl comfort zone, and to use both cratfed and improvised questions. For example, if you are asking a group of people rather than individuals you may get different answers as a result of the condition/situation in which you ask the questions. It is therefore important to decide on how to word a question to a particular person/group.This should enable you to gain the desired outcome as well as ensure you receive valid views and opinions. It is therfore important to do some research on the person/group of people who you are questioning to ensure you approach them using appropriate language and in the correct context to get the right information.

Another Question to consider is "how many questions do you need to ask to get the benefits you need"?

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