Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Module 2 SQ2

The difference between teacher and student centered strategies is that with teacher centered activities teachers direct the learning while in with student centered strategies the teachers serve as facilitators who offer guidance (Smaldino S., Lowther D., Russell J.).

Examples of teacher centered strategies are (1) Students complete drills on previously reviewed topics. For example, students complete Grammar101.com drills on parallelism identification after review the same with the instructor.  (2) After teaching the use of MS Word Review Comment tool to for annotation purposes and leading students through the annotation of an informational text. Students are asked to read a short information text and annotate it using the SOAPSTone method.

Examples of student centered strategies are: (1) Teacher gives students separate research assignments to students which when combined in a Wikispace will cover an entire topic.  Students check in with instructor daily to show their progress.  Instructor monitors student’s research website visits using Faronic’s Insight. Grading is based on each individual’s contribution to the project.  (2) Students collect poll data on several question posed by instructor on a current event. Student compile data using MS Exel  and create charts from data.. Students write reports using gathered data to come to conclusion regarding that data.   

References:

Smaldino S., Lowther D., Russell J.,(2012) Instructional Technology and Media for Learning 10th ed, Allyn &    
           Bacon. Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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