The impact of communication technology for teacher and students has enabled a better relationship between the two. Students can communicate together, alone, even as a class with their teacher and peers. There are multiple software and websites that students and teachers that are used to communicate with one another. With these form of communication it allows us to share ideas and information with different educational purposes. Students and teachers can benefit from this way of communicating by:
1. Teaching and learning after school hours
2. Engage with their peers and teachers
3. Share information with family and friends
4. Build a strong educational environment for everyone to learn in
5. Students can post or blog there work online to show everyone
6. They can improve their writing skills
In Chapter 8, we learn of the many ways that we can communicate together while using social media sites such as emailing, blog, texting, teacher made websites, discussion board, and Wiki.
We can improve the way we teach our students by using what's popular. Almost every one today uses some type of social media. So why not use it to our advantage to provide a better learning method for our teachers and students. All of the things that I have listed to communicate have benefited myself as a students. I am able to communicate with my Professors after school hours and if I need more help I can email other students or go to the wiki page that my professor has created to help everyone. Chapter 8 can benefit me as a teacher and a student. I learned how to share my ideas and information in a classroom environment and online environment. We can learn to interact and collaborate via technology. I can now understand how to use websites and blogs for my future students. Blogs can be very helpful for everyone as well as wikis, they can be used as a collaborative learning strategies for everyone.
Resources:
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Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010). Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon.
Great find on the photo - that really does help visualize the type and impact of social media. In our age of connectivity, communication is key and the more varied the types, the better to suit the individual. To be effective, communication needs to include a sender, message, and receiver. Unfortunately, when the receiver doesn't receive (often due to students not reading their emails in a timely fashion, for example), then perhaps texting would be more effective.
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