As an education student I have had experience with Dimensions of Learning and Productive Pedagogies. Both of these are excellent frameworks that are good lesson planning tools. They are particularly good for orientating and embedding content in relevant ways. While very good they are broad in their scope and as such can be applied to many different learning situations. As part of this course there is a need to look at frameworks that are more related to embedding Information Communication Technologies (ICT’s) particularly as I am an education student.
Before I comment on specific frameworks it is important that one considers the audience of the frameworks; some frameworks are aimed at students and others are aimed at teachers. I would argue that for any framework to be successful both parties need to have a particular understanding of the framework. The Dimensions of Learning is a framework that teachers need to have a thorough understanding of, though students need to have a good understanding of certain parts of it like the Habits of Mind. The Big Six seems to be centred on what students need to demonstrate to acquire information in a digital world. Of course the teacher needs to know the Big Six in order to ensure students are utilising it and also for their own information problem solving processes. When writing about frameworks I write generally with the assumption that their application is generic.
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