Experience of Online Learning, Virtual School, Flipping the Class Room

With online programmes , to you the student, you no longer need the walls and the limited amount of time allocated to you to do certain task, the don’ts of the class room is no longer your problem.  You are certainly going to enjoy online programme. You need to have access to a desk top or a laptop with high speed internet.

The teacher needs only to develop the right videos, the audio lessons, content rich websites and online chats and his work is done after the uploads are done.

 

 There is the following accrued to this type of learning:

(i)           there is individual learning speed regulated by him/her,

(ii)          improves the level of communication;

(iii)         it allows you to save the information for further referral;

(iv)         enabling feedback/protocol

(v)          it also enhances cooperation and collaboration

(vi)         enriched discussion forums

However, this type of teaching/learning has the following problems:

(i)           There is a total loss of control of the class, the teacher doesn’t have any say any more;

(ii)          It may not be suitable for everybody;

(iii)         It is not comparable to real interaction;

(iv)   There is no transparency of individual contribution, more specifically on group tasks.

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Teachers /Learners of Then….…Teachers/Learners of Tomorrow

When we were trained to be teachers, and started working in schools, we	But our advice to you now is
Verbal discussions were a more common mode of interactions;	Make discussions through texts and verbal interactions, online etc
Instructions were made strictly under the control of  a teacher	Ensure that classroom instructions can even be online
We Often got little time for reflection during sessions and after sessions;	Ensure that level of reflection is high
unequal participation of learners so common;	do something to promote more equal participation;
had detailed feedback on each learner’s piece of work;	Continue the spirit of encouraging feedback on each learner’s piece of work;
The whole process used to be quicker, with some limited time	The process should be appropriately moderated
Chalk boards a common instructional aids	Let even interactive while boards come in
Curriculum teacher centered	Learner centered curriculum to be encouraged

Creativity, Constructivism, and Accommodation of Difference Compared

Creativity: Some of the elements of creativity as one would put are (but not limited to) having the capability to think beyond the content in the box, be innovative, inventive or discover some sort of unique ideas. For sure all these just tells only half of the tale.

However, creativity normally takes a lot more than inspirations and of course it comes with some cost.  There should altogether be different levels of creativity in schools ranging from a simple short story from a learner to using technology in being creative. There should also be time and need for creativity for instance one would wonder why should a doctor learn another skill to do operations, yet it is the same patient, matter of fact, the operation would always be done in similar way but during stitching when there are some complications, the doctor will now have to be creative to discover his own methods of dealing with such complications. This is creativity!

Constructivism requires the children to learn effectively through interactions with various experiences in their natural environmental setting. This philosophy works well more specially by taking learning to be a process that depends on the prior ideas the learner brings to the knowledge and that it is all about sharing and negotiating a common understanding of a situation.

Piaget also believed in the importance of children interaction and actual manipulation as essential to the gaining of knowledge which would be termed as the constructivism.

Accommodation of Differences: individuals do not necessarily start on equal footing, equal treatment. Different people have difference historic experiences to tell, the class room requires space for taking care of individual differences of viewpoints, desires and even learning styles. Taking care of individual differences ensures that all the learners get an schooling that satisfies all their needs while developing an understanding and patience in the entire school system. Teachers and parents regularly tackle the accommodation of learners with problems as they attempt to create decisions concerning the childrens’ training.

Therefore, there is a relationship between creativity, constructivism and accommodation of individuals in schools in that they all say similar things about the learner though in yet another approach and one may lead to the other.