I like that the article states that enhancing lessons is less about changing them and more about increasing the number of opportunities for interaction and learning. As we have discussed several times, a huge part of a successful lesson, no matter what the format is, is interaction among students, teacher, and content. I love the thought of embedding videos within the text to really make it come alive!
I agree with Kelly that a successful lesson must be interactive and fun. Using LMS and be creative in online instruction, incorporating teacher made videos for example, spark students' enthusiasm and allow for targeting different learning levels and styles.
Enhancing lessons is a way that teachers grow professionally. Many teachers recycle lessons without a thought of enhancing them for the current wave of students. Enhancing lessons equals adjusting to students learning styles and intelligences. This can basically be addressed by using various forms of media, dialogue, graphic organizers, hands on etc. When this is done effectively student interest and participation is also improved.
The Guide focuses on how to enhance lessons by embedding technology. Technology brings interactivity and resources and tasks can be personalized as Julia is suggesting. The biggest challenge for all educators is to design technology-rich lessons where different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy are reached. In a sample of such a lesson included in the chapter that we are discussing now, I didn't find the implementation of the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Referring to evaluating as the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy, the author offers students to comment on other participants' albums. The more comments - the better is the task's implementation, according to the rubric. What criteria for a quality of the comments? Is there a thorough analysis required? No. Students are asked to comment on all other albums, that's it. I wish we would see an example of real deep implementation of Bloom's Taxonomy....
I like that the article states that enhancing lessons is less about changing them and more about increasing the number of opportunities for interaction and learning. As we have discussed several times, a huge part of a successful lesson, no matter what the format is, is interaction among students, teacher, and content. I love the thought of embedding videos within the text to really make it come alive!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kelly that a successful lesson must be interactive and fun. Using LMS and be creative in online instruction, incorporating teacher made videos for example, spark students' enthusiasm and allow for targeting different learning levels and styles.
ReplyDeleteEnhancing lessons is a way that teachers grow professionally. Many teachers recycle lessons without a thought of enhancing them for the current wave of students. Enhancing lessons equals adjusting to students learning styles and intelligences. This can basically be addressed by using various forms of media, dialogue, graphic organizers, hands on etc. When this is done effectively student interest and participation is also improved.
ReplyDeleteThe Guide focuses on how to enhance lessons by embedding technology. Technology brings interactivity and resources and tasks can be personalized as Julia is suggesting.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest challenge for all educators is to design technology-rich lessons where different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy are reached. In a sample of such a lesson included in the chapter that we are discussing now, I didn't find the implementation of the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Referring to evaluating as the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy, the author offers students to comment on other participants' albums. The more comments - the better is the task's implementation, according to the rubric. What criteria for a quality of the comments? Is there a thorough analysis required? No. Students are asked to comment on all other albums, that's it. I wish we would see an example of real deep implementation of Bloom's Taxonomy....