3 Tips for Capitalizing on Your Students’ Digital Literacy Skills - Top Hat Blog

 This is very important article for teaching with technology approaches.
I am a lifelong learner and a teacher.
I would like my students to follow new ways of learning.

3 Tips for Capitalizing on Your Students’ Digital Literacy Skills - Top Hat Blog:
Digital literacy is one of the few skills that we don’t formally teach in the classroom, probably because it is one of the few skills that the students are more comfortable with than the instructors. I have never had to hold a class of the proper use of hashtags. Nor have I ever been forced to discuss the intricacies of the Facebook “like” vs “dislike” buttons debate. Surprisingly, I have never once thought, “you know what we need in this class, a close examination of Vine videos”…Maybe I should start thinking this way, because the literacy that I learned with a pen and pencil has long since been replaced by the language of daily communication: digital literacy. This new-age literacy comes out of the rise of integrated social networking. To clarify, this network has become all encompassing. Every time you..

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Moodle MOOC 7 (MM7) takes place from November 1 - 30, 2015 on Moodle for Teachers. The purpose of the MOOC is to connect for instruction and learning, personal and professional development, best practices and challenges involved in teaching with technology.

This is my introduction to the MM7 session on WizIQ.

https://ostankowicz.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/teacher-training-a-waste-of-time/

I have been teaching for over 40 years.

In my view, teacher training courses are crucial for improving my teaching. I have been participating in many of them. As a lifelong learner, I feel I need to make a statement that it has always been a challenge, pleasure and a great fulfillment.

I have learnt a lot.

Nowadays I am doing some online courses for Teachers.

Teaching with Technology

Micro Teaching in Pairs

Teaching in a Virtual Class

Moodle MOOC 7 Moodle for Teachers training course

Courses are delivered by Dr. Nellie Deutsch @ Integrating Technology

http://www.integrating-technology.org/course/index.php?categoryid=115

Challenges involved in learning online?

 

Perhaps one of the greatest challenges for teachers is to deliver a consistent experience to a large and varied general populations.

Teachers and students should not carry through device management. Their priorities should be placed on learning.

Technology is not the creator. Substantial belief in innovation is less important than the requirements of students and teachers.

Teachers have a well-defined responsibility with implementing, and identifying, the best combination of digital learning tools for each student.

Different approaches to learning, such as project-based learning,  effective education, game-based learning, and more, is a part of personalized blended learning models. Consequently, such innovations will call for demonstration how their package improves learning outcomes.

Most challenges have to do with the procedures, but they have nothing to do with the teaching itself. To make it simple, if you know how to teach, all you need to do is learn about the elementary online tools available for online teaching, and begin using them.

As mentioned earlier, teaching an online class can be time-consuming. Also, developing an online class can be overwhelming. Learning and becoming proficient using an LMS takes time, and uploading materials to the online environment is also demanding and takes much time. Once you learn how to use the LMS, you need to get to teach students through it.

The time required to generate a new class can be a problem with developing online classes.

The instructor should be able to take care of the subject matter rather than spend

countless time is managing difficulties connected with the technology.

One of the most recommended ways to cope with the additional time required for teaching online classes is to decrease the class size.

Students also regularly run into technological problems and they need support with technology issues.

Navigating the Unique Challenges of Online Teaching. (n.d.). Retrieved from  

http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/undergrad/ptacc/online-teaching.pdf