2.2 Research-Based Learner-Centered Strategies
Candidates model and facilitate the use of research-based, learner-centered strategies addressing the diversity of all students. (PSC 2.2/ISTE 2b)
Artifact: Online Learning Experience, ITEC7481.
Reflection:
The Online Learning Experience artifact demonstrates the use of the online learning environment as a means of delivering an Art instruction to students. The seven-week fully online course helps 9th grade students to use both art and technology tools to create drawings and paintings. The artifact was created as a part of the ITEC7481 course that requires candidates to show how their online course will look like in the ITEC7482. It indicates the context of the course, the assessment practices and the accommodation for social needs students.
The artifact relies on the 21st century mode of instruction in which the use of the internet and other technologies considered a part of the daily activities of the student. It also takes advantage of online contents being able to reach wider audience, especially in the teaching and learning community, to students who otherwise would not have had access to such contents in the traditional classroom environment. The artifact makes provision for all students with different learning styles and indicates how special needs students can receive instructional support. This makes individualized learning possible for the students as the students have the chance to address peculiar learning problems.
Creating the artifact provided the opportunity to explore different types of learning management systems and identified one with features that would be most appropriate for meeting the standards required for the online course. To provide students with variety of learning resources, some online videos and slide presentations were identified. The materials identified were however either too scanty or too broad for what the students were supposed to know. It would be appropriate for the instructor to create fitting learning material so that students spend the right amount of time covering the activities of the module in the course.
The Online Learning Experience artifact demonstrates the use of the online learning environment as a means of delivering an Art instruction to students. The seven-week fully online course helps 9th grade students to use both art and technology tools to create drawings and paintings. The artifact was created as a part of the ITEC7481 course that requires candidates to show how their online course will look like in the ITEC7482. It indicates the context of the course, the assessment practices and the accommodation for social needs students.
The artifact relies on the 21st century mode of instruction in which the use of the internet and other technologies considered a part of the daily activities of the student. It also takes advantage of online contents being able to reach wider audience, especially in the teaching and learning community, to students who otherwise would not have had access to such contents in the traditional classroom environment. The artifact makes provision for all students with different learning styles and indicates how special needs students can receive instructional support. This makes individualized learning possible for the students as the students have the chance to address peculiar learning problems.
Creating the artifact provided the opportunity to explore different types of learning management systems and identified one with features that would be most appropriate for meeting the standards required for the online course. To provide students with variety of learning resources, some online videos and slide presentations were identified. The materials identified were however either too scanty or too broad for what the students were supposed to know. It would be appropriate for the instructor to create fitting learning material so that students spend the right amount of time covering the activities of the module in the course.