Selling Myself the idea....
This is the way I feel about this course. So far, learning about all the tools available for us to use in education has been shocking, if you may. It is unbelievable how many resources there are available for teachers and students to use for a good number of tasks that I was not aware of. Then, it hit me..... My brain started bombarding me about how many things I could do to adjust to different educational or training situations. With Google docs, for instance, the way you can program surveys and show results. It just would be applicable for so many situations. We could have Ss use it for research, oral presentations with visual support, also we could implement surveys with teacher training, customer service, etc.
However, and inspite how wonderful online learning and all these great tools might sound, there is an issue which our instructor mentions in his reflection: limited access to internet and limited knowledge about it. This is relevant to our group course development- a true challenge indeed. What are we going to do with all the knowledge we will have gotten throughout the course, and more importnatly: how are we going to put it to work for our course sake?
I am very concerned about this since for every project I start, I like to have a whole picture in my mind of. And here we are.... four weeks later and the picture is still blurred to me.
A mini-lecture and a book
6 months ago
Kira - This is a great start. I agree with you that having a clear "big picture" is really important so that our efforts are properly directed towards achieving our goals.
ReplyDeleteI am excited to see how this blog evolved during this program. Keep going!
I am sure you will do it just fine!!! You're very persistent and a goal-achiever. You'll see.
ReplyDeleteYes Kira, it´s a great challenge. The same happens to me, I think I´ve got the picture but then I have to go back again and again. Hopefully we´ll get through this.
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This is new to most of us. Little by little we will start integrating the different aspects of the course in our brain and then things will start making sense. I have also been having a hard time trying to first understand the pieces of the puzzle and I am sure it will take me a while to put all those pieces together. I see it as part of the process.
ReplyDeleteToday Justin and I were talking about how to use what we have learned. One idea is for the teacher to develop the wiki or blog at first and just have the students repond on the blog or do a group assignment on the wiki.
ReplyDeleteDo you think we need to introduce little by little technology to our students or just use it all at once?
About what you said miss Kira, well it is a challenge for us. Even if we learn how to use the tool, the most difficult part (I beliebe for most of us) will be to apply it in classes. Believe me miss, you are not the only one thinking about how to do it. and about what karen said, I think it depends. If our students are young adults it has to be all at one because they already manage some of these tools, but if our students will be Adults adults.. then it has to be little by little.
ReplyDeleteKaren, I think that our students will definitely need a hands on orientation about how to create their wikis at the beginning, just like we did. It would probably be good to have them blog since session one because that is an ongoing tool they'll be using along the course. I think that for the rest of tools we could just look for good tutorials, or even use the ones we already have.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Margarita about the "age issue." In any case we need to provide Ss with the right model. The advantage that we have is that we have been learners of what we will be teaching and that makes us highly empathetic.
ReplyDeleteOne of my concerns is if the students we will have know about these tools, well I suppose they might know more than us! If they are digital natives we will be lucky, if not we´ll have to teach them!!!
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