Student-centred technology-Flickr

The following is a synopsis of my Flickr learning design used in the context of a Year 10 Geography Studies class.

In order to maximise the learning opportunities offered by Flickr, I would imbed this activity as part of the previously proposed unit of work for the Year 10 Geography Studies class (refer to Student-centred technology: Wikis). As part of their assessment, the small groups of learners would be required to upload several photos taken on their field trip to Flickr.
Using Flickr, students may then wish to edit these images highlighting necessary elements/ cropping the image so that the main focus is better conveyed (i.e. erosion of the coastal sand dunes due to humans running down them).

The groups would then have to insert this image onto their wiki sites where they would conduct a brief discussion as to what human impacts are evidenced in this photo and some possible reasons as to why these impacts occurred (i.e. rubbish on the beach may be due to humans directly littering on the beach or it has been swept there by the ocean). Therefore, using Flickr in this context conforms to Oliver’s Learning Design Theory (1999) as the learning resource (Flickr) plays a central role/tightly fits in with the learning task (assessment item: wiki).

Reference:
Oliver, R 1999, Learning Design: The Learning Design Construct, viewed 9 August 2009, http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/project/learn_design.htm.