Interactivity in the classroom and its impact on learning

Group interaction: A group of students in a group discussing a task which may be in the form of disputational, cumulative or exploratory working with a particular ICT tool.

Authoritative interactivity: Student are all on the same ICT tool and all of them are listening to my instructions on how to utilise the tool.

Dialectic interactivity: Beginning with teacher with probing questions, students will respond to those questions thus enabling the teacher to provide further feedback on using the the ICT tool.

Dialogic interactivity: Teacher’s questions provide looser structure, merely drawing attention to relevant issues and strategies. By jointly evaluating possibilities and approaches, students start to develop the metacognitive skills required to orchestrate the ICT features for themselves.

Synergistic interactivity: Students are working on their individual tablets or laptops and interacting with the each other and teachers defining and reconstructing the task and enabling new novel ways to solve the task through various group interactions.

In reflecting of the different types of interactivity, I intend to to use Authoritative, Dialectic and Synergistic interactions with my tasks. With the tools I have in mind and lesson plan designs I will create the affordance of such interactions.