Sunday, December 2, 2012

Benefits of Online experiences

Talk about how you could use one of the technologies that qualify as an online experience with your students. 
  • What content could this help you teach?
  • What type of pedagogical strategies might you use with your students?
  • What technologies do you think would be harder to use with your students? Why?

After going to some of the links provided by Michigan Merit Companion Document I think the content of interactive discussions with experts for my senior math/ life skills course.  Then the online field trips and online simulations would be great for my physics course by allowing my students a chance to look future in depth with concepts. Then I have ran across some web-quests that allows students to gain a good understanding of topics.  
The online learning method allows for a mixture of classroom situations to arise.  Students have the freedom to use other resources to back up their knowledge and lets them discuss information in deeper knowledge.  The students also enjoy the use of videos because it allows for them to pause the teacher and write down information or any questions that they might have.  That's one of the reasons that a flipped classroom is nice along with the students working cooperatively with their discussions.  The flipped method also allows for students to move at their own pace, that provides a teacher a way to differentiate the classroom.
The technologies that require more time at a computer are harder for my students because not everyone has home access to a computer or the internet.  Then we only have one computer lab so time in the lab comes at a premium and students are expected to be working to their fullest the entire time (Not that they normally aren't but there's zero room for anything different).  

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