The article that I choose for number five was "Into the Virtual Frontier". It has to do with a women teacher that gets a job offer that allows her to become a teacher online instead of the classroom. this to me was a new notion of teaching until I got into college. The teacher in the article is the author and is sharing her views and experience with this new way of teaching in the K-12 system. she first goes through the issue of how she would set up the class and how to get started. she explain that it was very hard work because she had to find out how to make her lesson plans work online because it was not the same as in a classroom. Also she had to figure what type of programs she would use to communicate, teach, and would do activities with. So as she explains all this work she comes to know that there is a really huge difference from teaching in a classroom to teaching a to online students.
She goes through the different types of things she needs to do such as how she will communicate with the students. She explains that because you do not have a physical presence with them, then you need to find a way to motivate them and have them keep with the class. This seems to be difficult because she explains how all the students are different and have different communication needs. For example the ones that do very well in the course contact the teacher about how they are doing or to get help on homework and assignments, then there is those students who need a little more attention and she goes into how she calls the student or the parents to make sure that they are on track. So to me this would be very very hard to keep up with the students needs. But something that does help she adds is Skype to have that face to face interaction that helps very much with motivating students to participate in the modules that are placed for them.
Next she moves on to lesson plan and curriculum that have to be place and how she does this. She says that the school provides many basic lesson plans for the course that is being thought are just basic. What I thought that was really great was that the teacher is able to modify the lesson plans to what they think is better and have them be more higher thinking modules and make them think critical. Not only this but how does the teacher help the student when they are doing work at that time and she implemented weekly work that is handed in at the end of each week. So the week would start on Sunday and end in Saturday night. So students learn time management and are allowed time to get help and have that responsibility on them. She saw that it worked a lot better than just giving them an assignment and having a deadline. This allowed them to choose what they wanted to first and then work their way through the week.
In all honesty I don't find a way that I would use the things on this article to my future teaching career because it all relates to online teaching and that had never been an interest to me because I feel that i can help a child a lot more with the in classroom teaching rather than online.
Communication and Collaborative is one way that this article relates to the NETS-S because the student and teacher are using digital media programs to contact each other on the things that are happening on the online course share the the homework, assignments, and projects that have been given to all those in the class. Next is the Digital Citizenship because throughout the whole online schooling students are made aware of proper conduct and proper etiquette on issues related to technology and the internet.
McBride, H. (2012, November). Into the Virtual Frontier. Learning & Leading, 24–27. Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/201211#pg28
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