Module Four:
Engaging learners requires a new approach, not only to instruction but also to structuring classroom environments and learning experiences. In their article, Durrington, Berryhill, and Swafford discuss structured learning environments, interactive discussions, peer-to-peer interactions, and problem-based learning as critical elements of an engaging online course. In his presentation, “Curatorial teaching,” Siemens outlines the appropriate level of interaction and guidance for educators to help students navigate resources and utilize a structured approach to learning within their field.
Using the ideas of Durrington, Siemens, and others from your readings, determine which technological tools and strategies are best for involving learners in building content knowledge, engaging in communication with peers and instructors, and working on authentic, collaborative, problem-based tasks in the online environment. Select common technological tools that can be used in order to achieve these goals.
Create a graphic organizer to show these strategies and tools, and post it to your blog.
Example of Graphic Organizer
With your graphic organizer, include a reflection describing how you can bring the technological tools learners are using outside the classroom into the educational process, and which tools and strategies are best for this purpose. Make sure to explain why each tool works well in a learning environment and the benefits and advantages it provides.
With your graphic organizer, include a reflection describing how you can bring the technological tools learners are using outside the classroom into the educational process, and which tools and strategies are best for this purpose. Make sure to explain why each tool works well in a learning environment and the benefits and advantages it provides.
Hi everyone, I just finished playing on Inspiration! The link provided will take you to may graphic organizer. I have posted several ideas and comments by others and myself directed at how educators must change or we will work ourselves right out of a job.
I spent some time on Inspiration for College students creating my graphic organizer. Here is the link to it. Sorry I could not post it directly, but when you see it, you will be able to see why. It is colorful, creative, innovative, and forward moving. I hope you enjoy it!
Follow the link below to my world of innovative ways to help learners using everyday innovations:
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ReplyDeleteI really like it! Fantastic job.
ReplyDeleteSo, do you believe that direct instruction is obsolete? I wonder in my classroom how I could trust the collaboration process with my third graders. But our administrators require direct instruction within the lesson. They do not want to see the students on the computers all the time. Though I think that is changing with every new innovation.
I will have to tell you that when I saw the discovery method implemented in a first grade class, I was totally amazed! It worked so well. The students were given 4-6 assignments to accomplish in the morning time and the teacher at the same time did one-on-one reading time for each and every child in the classroom everyday. Those kids learned how to read so well it was amazing. I asked her about the other work, and she told me she just checked to see if they were sort of getting the idea as that was all she was supposed to be doing in first grade-just giving them an exposure to the information; her primary job was to teach them how to read and the rest would follow. This works with first graders, so I cannot imagine it not working with third graders.
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