Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:552] Teaching strategies
From: Bonnycastle, Deirdre (BONNYCASTLE@siast.sk.ca)
Date: Mon 30 Oct 2000 - 21:51:20 MET
From: "Bonnycastle, Deirdre" <BONNYCASTLE@siast.sk.ca> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:552] Teaching strategies Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:51:20 +1300
Good teachers start with goals/objectives/outcomes and use those to create
appropriate activities no matter what medium they are working in. On-line
teaching offers many advantages when it comes to meeting the needs of
students with different learning styles but many teachers are unaware of how
to develop content for new media.
Ken Meyers asked "But don't teachers need to progress through the stages of
awareness, integration, and then contextualization in order to implement
highly interactive uses of technology?" I think that may be the key. I'll
start with "Awareness" Many people are using PowerPoint because they have
had some exposure to it, for example. I think there needs to be an awareness
on the part of Universities/colleges that on-line instructors need training
in the teaching strategies as well as the technology. So if you are training
people in WebCT chat rooms, for instance, you also need to know how, when
and where etc. you could use that technology effectively. Working with an
instructional designer familiar with both technology and instruction is
another option that I recommend highly. (Smile)
Deirdre
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Deirdre Bonnycastle
Instructional Designer
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
(306) 933-8366
bonnycastle@siast.sk.ca
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