The Padagogy Wheel and Special Schools

https://designingoutcomes.com/english-speaking-world-v5-0/

Allan Carrington’s Padagogy Wheel Model.

The link above will take you to the version 5 of the Padagogy Wheel. The wheel is constantly updated .

Teachers now have an at-hand reference that ties apps to specific learning outcomes directly connected to modern pedagogies and theories. All around the world universities are using it as an integral part of initial teacher training to encourage  research and methodology in e-learning, distance education and the use of technologies in education. It is completely child-centred with the aim of helping to maximise learning outcomes from these new devices.

Once qualified, teachers can easily sit with the wheel during lesson planning time to find tools that will best aid their pupils. Or use it during class time to extend or deepen learning towards a specific 21st century skill or content area.

The underlying principle of the Padagogy Wheel is that it is the pedagogy that should determine our educational use of apps and how that app might contribute to our set of educational aims . Pedagogy should drive the technology and not the other way around. 

The Padagogy wheel was based on Blooms taxonomy ,thought by many to be the backbone of modern teaching.

Andrew Churches produces some amazing work in relation to Blooms taxonomy.

I like his infographic that links Blooms Digital Taxonomy to the communication spectrum.

Alan Carrington has connected Apps to the taxonomy.

Alan Carrington  version 1 in 2012 was 62 iPad apps categorised according to Blooms cognitive domain and was useful to lots of teachers. It evolved to version 2 with additions and so on until we are now at version 5. Many people all over the world have become involved. At this time of writing it has been translated into 19 different languages.

The core of the padagogy wheel is all about what an excellent graduate looks like , all about graduate attributes and employable capabilities and how we get the best out of the technology (SAMR). Graduate attributes are the key to managing transformative learning. Below is a Youtube link on how to use a version of the wheel.

Have Special schools been left out? No. Already versions have been adapted at universities for a padagogy wheel to meet all kinds of needs. Edinburgh universities in particular ! Please follow link below for a more detailed version of the picture introducing this post : An App wheel describing apps useful to those with autistic spectrum disorders

http://www.autismspeaks.org/sites/default/files/pedagogy_wheel.pdf

iPad apps to support Creativity can be downloaded from: www.callscotland.org.uk/downloads/posters-and-leaflets/ In the electronic version, App images are ‘clickable’ links, taking you to information about the individual App on the iTunes site for the UK

iPad Apps for Complex Communication support can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/CALL-AAC-App-Wheel In the electronic version, App names are ‘clickable’ links, taking you to information about the individual App on the iTunes site for the UK.

iPad Apps for Dyslexia support can be downloaded from http://www.callscotland.org.uk/downloads/posters-and-leaflets

I feel sure many more will follow.