Since I posted Choosing an App for your Lessons with the Padagogy Wheel in 2019, there have been improvements in the Padagogy Wheel itself through two full upgrades. The most recent version, 7.0, includes graphic, rubric, and a design philosophy change. There is a detailed rubric provided to assist educators through this process. The revised philosophy is student first rather than technology first. Pathways to GenAI apps are now included in the digital tool segments. This makes the Padagogy Wheel’s structured selection of digital tools current and useful for instructors who do not have time or expertise to research emerging GenAI apps and existing apps that have been repurposed with GenAI features.
Overall, we accept technologies from these sources and adapt them into our classes. If they are not enhancing or are providing efficiencies or adhering to human resources requirements, we can embrace them or quietly ignore them. A question that I have asked myself in the past is, who chose and acquired these tools? Specialists working in coordination with administrators make procurement decisions based on their considered expertise, relevant data, and financial analysis.
While we have little impact in the larger purchases and rollouts of technology, there are potentially other resources that can be identified to enhance our lessons. To locate and ensure that they align with specific course outcomes we can use the Padagogy Wheel. It is a better means of securing relevant technology than listening to gadget pushers like me! (See former my blog posts.) Try the Padagogy Wheel and possibly identify suitable tools for your lessons.
What is the Padagogy Wheel?
The Wheel is a framework that helps teachers plan learning events and intentionally choose digital solutions based on learning goals or outcomes. Teachers start at the hub of the wheel and move towards the edge. The steps to identifying a digital tool that meets instructional outcome requirements are:
- identify a learning outcome
- choose a Blooms’ level that matches the outcome
- select an action verb
- decide on a learning activity or activities
- evaluate potential digital tools
- choose a tool
- match this tool and action to a SAMR stage
- use the tool with learners
- review and adjust if necessary for the next class
Version 7.0 Attributes
Version 7.0, https://tinyurl.com/swrn3jwe , has added 144 Generative Artificial Intelligence enabled apps and websites for the purposes of teaching and learning. This version includes more than 180 interactive rollover hot spots that display introduction and overview pop-ups. If the hot spot is clicked, a longer panel appears at the side of the wheel with additional information. These pop-ups provide practical descriptions that guide teachers to match learning goals, learning activities, and technology choices.
There is now more information available in the instructional strategies level. The information is revealed when an item is rolled over. The instructional strategies items are now titled with the word idea with and an assigned number and title. For example Idea #28 is titled Gallery walk. The additional information includes guiding principles, preparation and process, online adaptions, rationale and references. In the app level, the additional information rollovers reveal the following information about an app: a description, price, strengths and weaknesses and AI usage.
If you want the full functionality of the Padagogy Wheel v7.0, open it with Adobe Acrobat to ensure access to the interactive hot spot functionality. Allan Carrington, the designer and creator of the Padagogy Wheel, advises that other PDF readers do not always work as intended with the PDF Padagogy Wheel.
LINC and ESL Language Teacher Benefits
The new Padagogy Wheel benefits instructors and learners in our sector as it provides a means to identify and critically consider digital tools before purchasing or downloading them. It also encourages accessibility and digital literacy considerations. These are now integrated through building accessibility into its evaluation rubric which is positioned on the left side of the wheel and can be accessed through a link or QR code. The AI App Selection Rubric provides instructors with a means of determining the usefulness of an AI Tool or App. This rubric can generate a score based on the following criteria for an app: purpose alignment, user-friendliness, features and functionality, engagement and interaction, scalability and integration, data privacy and security support and development cost-effectiveness evidence of efficacy accessibility and inclusivity. These are very important for LINC and ESL adult learners with diverse linguistic and technology backgrounds. The identification of apps AI usage on the Padagogy Wheel’s is an efficient means of identifying GenAI tools.
Final Thought
The Padagogy wheel provides a pathway for tool selection that encourages responsibility of our technology choices embracing inclusive and modern pedagogy. Give it a try. You may just become an informed technology innovator at your centre.
If you missed it, check out the “GenAI’ enhanced Padagogy Wheel webinar in Tutela’s past webinars
Resources
Carrington, Allan. (2024). The Padagogy wheel RNG AI V7.0 – designing Outcomes. https://tinyurl.com/swrn3jwe
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