Hey fellas,
nice to come back here again.
As we all
know we got to discuss regarding the two posed questions.
Firstly, I have
to say that the method based on projects corresponds to a new and innovative approach
that embraces the mutual work and mutual interests. That’s what makes it unique
and worthy I think, the fact of engaging everyone into the lesson and challenging
them to acquire more. Then we have to be aware of the fact that this method relies
on gaining knowledge and new skills by counting on the good will, complicity and
dynamism of the team’s spirit.
If I were to
choose among the technological tools, I would say that some would suffice but
once we know more, we are eager to learn more than just some. Additionally, we already
know that a student cannot do without technology nowadays and we cannot just out
of the blue, be mean and restrict them from using their phone or their laptops
or worse remain traditional on our lecturing. I assume that that would be wrong
and our class would be the most boring one. For an hour worthy to be attended, I
would say that as much innovative as it is and as much as we see that new
methods and new tools are incorporated, curiosity would bring us to be present in this
lecture. Considering that, it would be like a good appetizer when offering the
golden meal, so the information transmitted would be appealing and when learned
in a visualized manner it has the tendency to be absorbed quite well.
Now let me
provide you with the ‘good tools’ or important ones according to my perspective
that would show productivity on what they learn. First, I would mention the dear
buddies where we count on for everything in our lives: Google and Wikipedia,
our life saviors. Then to get more into the thing we have our recent tools
created with the purpose of having long calls and adjusting features that would
improvise a class like the option of the board, raising hands video conferences
or sharing content like zoom, classroom, google platform, hangout, or teams we
are currently using and also the other content sharing apps like you tube that
helps us to share links and useful videos, also others like blogger we were taught
this year also to share knowledge, our personal experiences and a piece of our work
or things we are required to do. We were introduced with drop box as well where
we all have access and we can store our docs, videos and things we want to
share with one another. As I mentioned earlier, I do not think that one tool is
better than the other one, on the contrary we have to know them and try as more
as we want to, even out of curiosity sometimes and when we see that our student
like it and find it easy to be managed and also show progress when working with
it, we support them more and try to learn them what we know and share knowledge
with one another. That is why they can be presented with most of them, in order
to use those tools in a near future for other purposes too.
Regarding presentation
tools, I still would not lean on only something specific, since some of us can get
the best out of an app or tool that for someone else it can be seen as a total
disaster and failure. As such, a good work I think does not count only on a few
graphical things you are going to choose, it is much more than that, it is the
information you provide up to the wallpaper you choose to present it and your
articulation and fluency when presenting. However, what I would personally
suggest is that I always choose Microsoft office tools, like power point,
excel, or word and so on, or also publisher is a good one, Visme since it allows
many possibilities in graphics, software presentations and much more options, Prezi
too and so on.
All in all,
as I still rely on old comrades, power point, inserting videos links and images
and Word also is still one of my favorites since it keeps the things simple and
it is really comfortable to be used. I do believe that with the new generation,
they will be much capable than us into enhancing new things related with
technology which apparently would make them more productive and successful.
Yo Klesta. Well, I have no words to comment to you anymore. As always you have done a great post. What i like about your post and specially this one is that you avoid redudancy.Gosh thank you for that.😜
ReplyDeleteHey Klesta, thank you for mentioning in your post that nowadays we can not prevent our students from technology but instead we should learn how to use technology in our advantage in our classrooms, l think that is something that many teachers do and it's just wrong, technology is helpful and with the tools you mentioned in your post is just what students need to be successful.
ReplyDeleteHi Klesta! I really enjoyed reading your post! I like the overall unique way you addressed the topic and gave your honest opinion about it. I really appreciate it. And I agree with you that we should let our students try and explore different tools and see their reaction, if their comfortable with it, and give them support when they need it and vice versa share knowledge with one another, as sometimes they might know more the we do.
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