Gina Glass
Summary of my thoughts of the five articles and how they apply to my current job.
These articles are talking about ways that we as instructors must incorporate new technologies (digital tools) in teaching our classes. It is vital to our students or we are going to lose them. I think today we focus more on teaching the content that is in the books. We need to shift that focus more on developing ways to include students in how they learn, and we can do that by using more technology (digital tools) in our classroom whether it be in the actual classroom or virtual.
With everything that is going on today, not knowing if we will be in a classroom or have to complete a class online, we need to be on our game. We need to be able to provide more options to our students by using more technology that they know how to use. We need to keep them engaged.
Working in Online@JSU we are constantly looking into different technologies that are being used in the classroom. We definitely have to stay on top of things so that we can help instructors customize courses that help students have an opportunity to actively practice what they are learning.
I agree with your comment that with everything going on today, we need to be on our game. I think that the pandemic definitely revealed some holes in today’s world of online education. I fully believe that the state department probably thought their idea of online learning was set until thousands of upset parents could not figure out how to navigate Schoology. Educators, parents, and students should all be educating themselves more on up and coming technologies to enrich the learning factor whether students are in a typical brick and mortar facility, or learning at home during the midst of a pandemic. I think with all technology has to offer in today’s time, a student should have the option to be able to learn just as efficiently online, than they would in a school setting.
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