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Challenges in Online Teaching

Online teaching has been a challenge. This module has been very helpful. I can implement this right away. Did not realize that timely constructive feedback means so much to the students. Also learned that engaging student do not have to always be in person in the classroom.

Diversity in the Online Classroom

Today's classroom is very different from the classroom I participated in, and yet, there are certain aspects that have not changed, but are easier to identify and address. As instructors, we desire to provide students with a seamless F2F/Online learning experience. This module has made me more aware of generational and technological diversity, as well as the impact that has on the success of our students. Even though most of our students are Millennials or Generation Z, many share common traits with prior generations such as introversion and lack of access to adequate technology (or knowledge of) for online learning.… >>>

La importancia de las redes sociales

Me encanta validar el valor educativo de las redes sociales y cómo pueden influenciar para bien o para mal. Por eso soy muy cuidadosa con las noticias falsas y trato de la medida en que se puede aclararlas.

Working online

Working online is challenging and very helpful

Students are not as rational as adults are?

Students often have not learned to do more than live from the heart, while adults have concentrated their efforts on more cerebral approaches. This means a group of diverse people can bridge the gap that exists by writing together.


What does this mean? That younger people are not as rational as adults are?

Any generation suffers from cognitive biases and personality disorders. 

To "live from the heart" is therefore not exclusive to either young or older people.

Culture of Abbreviation

The ethos associated with the culture of abbeviation, which most of the on-line community exercises, undermines the value of commuunicatioing insightfully 

through sustained explanation and explication. By insisting that complex ideas by communicated in 280 words or less, you undermine the students' freedom

to express themselves throughly.

The cuture of abbreviation is driven by market values and sound bites presented as truth, not erudition.

Chunk

The word "chunk" (doesn't quite work does it) should be replaced with ASSIMILATE or INCORPORATE.

Having access to information through a multitude of devices allows information to be disseminated quickly to a large audience.

What if this information is packed with misinformation, disinformation, distortions and lies?

We need a counter technology to combat this. What might this look like?

Pulse of Society

 

This is a contestable claim. What is meant by the pulse of society?

Do you mean the latest information about the Kardashians? It seems questionable that microblogging

accomplishes the kind of edifying discourse you assume it allows people to engage in.

Plan for discomfort when traditional roles and structures of classroom authority are disrupted

  • Plan for discomfort when traditional roles and structures of classroom authority are disrupted
  • What does this mean?

Twitter Accounts

Yes, but there is also the danger of encountering nonsense (which many people are attracted to) and offensive material very easily.

One has to be careful that there use of Twitter is not another excuse to see one's education as a form of entertainment. 

Where is the sustained inquiry when reading people's brief explanations on a twitter page? There isn't any.

Technology a MUST!

Technology is here to stay and ongoing.  I learned that it is imparative that I must learn in order to succeed.  There is no more "I'm too old for this" or "I'm going to conduct my class the old-fashion way".  Not only do I need to learn how to operate and navigate, but I also need to learn how to foster the relationship with my students through technology.  I will embrace technology with an open-mind in order to be successful professionally as well as personally.

My classroom

I am excited to import some of the knowledge that I have received through this training and use it with my online classes. 

Building a Wellness Module

Do you know the three aspects of a Wellness Module and how it effects you personnaly? Discussing your personal Wellness Module with your peers brings about personal accountabilty and progress. Engaging in a discussion about your goals for your wellness Module will produce better results and peer involvement and sharing your progress or inhibitions of having an effective wellness module.

Keeping a journal and continual evaluation of your three ares to work on (Mind, Body and Spirit) will keep you moving in a positive direction. Being stagnant or unaware of these areas can be roadblocks to success. 

As a massage… >>>

Using small groups for learning

creating duos or three somes to tie together ideas from a lecture (10 min huddle) with 3 min to present to rest of group can often bring into play different uses of the information.

try hard

Try your hardest an bestest 

Teaching through an interpreter

I am constantly teaching through interpreters. They are a key asset in an environment where you do not speak the language and English proficiency is low. Ideally interpreters should have early access to the lectures in order to familiarize with the content and the terminology. It is also good to work with the same interpreter over and over again, but often I am not able to influence it. Working through interpreters takes more time.

Engaging Online Learners

In order to engage online learners, you will have to take what you do in the traditional classroom, and modify it for online instruction. Teaching is what we do, whenever, however and  wherever we are.

Reflection

Make sure that all content is relevant and course related.

Retaining student engagement

There were a lot of components to digital communication I was not formally aware of, such as the ARCS stuff and the sequence response method.  I will probably incorporate a lot more dissecting to the electronic communications I craft in the upcoming semester.