RESPONSIBILITY

Learning of responsibility

The purpose of these activities is to provide guidelines for the parents to scaffold children's learning of responsibility with educational apps. The learning activities are divided into 4 sessions according to Cope and Kalantzis' (2015) Learning by Design framework.

MATERIALS

Resources

• Tablet/IPad

• Internet

• Video Recorder or Smartphone

• Video or Photo Editing apps

• Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The Cat in the Hat, The Three Little Pigs, and so on.

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SESSION 1 - EXPERIENCING/SITUATED PRACTICE

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• When using educational apps such as Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The Cat in the Hat, and The Three Little Pigs to teach children societal values, parents can guide children to identify the values in the story using the following prompters:

  • Can you tell me what you like about the story?

  • What do you think is a lesson that can be learnt from the story?

SESSION 2 - CONCEPTUALISING/OVERT INSTRUCTION

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• During the second reading, as the child internalises the values transmitted via the narrative in the educational app, parents can guide the child to relate the values to daily lives using the following prompters:

  • Can you give me an example of a good behaviour at home?

  • Can you give me an example of a bad behaviour at home?

SESSION 3 - ANALYSING/CRITICAL FRAMING

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• During the third reading, parents can perform a deep analysis of the narrative in the educational app with children to develop children's critical thinking.

• Parents can consider using the following questions to prompt children to explore cause and effect relationships:

  • Why do you think the characters did what they did?

  • Can you suggest a different ending to the story?

SESSION 4 - APPLYING/TRANSFORMED PRACTICE