GRAY’S SPACE

I’ve been playing with LAMS and actively constructing my knowledge and understanding – a beautiful thing! LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) is a great platform for creating authentic learning tasks.I like how I can create a lesson and have the students complete a set of questions and get immediate feedback on where they are struggling or succeeding.The beauty of using this software is that I can quickly review a section or topic based on the students responses.

The ability to store,adapt and change the lesson at a future time is a very powerful feature of LAMS.I like how I can share lessons via the LAMS Community Website .In addition I can borrow and adapt. The ability to refine lessons and questioning over a period of time is another great feature of LAMS.

Obviously the more I work with this powerful tool I will be able to integrate additional functions and utilise the functionality in new and exciting ways.

I’ll leave you with a quote from James Dalziel – the founder of LAMS

Initial evaluations of LAMS in K-12 school and university environments during 2003 have indicated LAMS has a profound impact on both student learning and teachers’ conceptualisation of the learning process. Research into this impact is ongoing, but one striking early example is in student willingness to engage in whole class discussion of ideas. In one K-12 school pilot evaluation, only 15% of students were willing to discuss ideas in front of their peers in the classroom, but over 80% of the same students were willing to discuss their ideas within LAMS.

IMPLEMENTING LEARNING DESIGN: THE LEARNING
ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LAMS) -James Dalziel ASCILITE 2003