EDUC561 is a pretty nice course introducing us to new tools and platforms that are useful in our work life. It gives us ideas on how we can be better equipped digitally. It gives a specific focus on teachers and how they can embed digital tools in their teaching practices, and thus having inclusive reach to all children, having engaged classrooms, being more adaptable to this new digital world and the online teaching. The course empowers teachers with ideas of activities to be implemented with students.
It can be better structured as I sometimes feel there are several tools/platforms introduced at the same time that might be distracting and I loose relevance- maybe having a clear outline for our session would help. As I am not a teacher, I always try to relate how these tools can help me in my work, I am sure there are other students in the class that are not teachers as well and it would be good to have them included in how these tools can help in their work.
As an overall experience in online learning for this semester, I really found it very suitable, comfortable, flexible, and convenient especially when in times that I wasn't available to join the class, there is always a video recording that I can go back to.
Good point, sometimes we get confused by the many tools used in one session
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. I would like to note about the course objective as being integrating technology into teaching, so if you are not a teacher, you might be able to modify the use of the tool for your special purposes, but they are initially selected to suit teaching.
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