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Teaching with Technology
be assigned some discussion or other group related assignment. Afterwards the students
can present their
ideas to the whole group, when the host upgrades the picked students into presenters.
This is another handy tool for teaching, for the teacher, as a host, can change the role of
the people in the virtual classroom, giving them more access and privileges to change
the classroom. A teacher can, for example, upgrade one of the students into a presenter,
who can share a file and use their microphone and webcam to give their presentation,
and afterwards the teacher can change the students role back to participant. Individual
privileges can be given as well, such as microphone usage, without changing the role of
the person. One final, but very crucial feature of the program is the ability to record
sessions. The program will then save the feed, including the material presented, into a
recording, than can be viewed either privately through a password or publicly. The
teacher can share the link of the recording as they please. It is ideal for students who
can't attend the class or for students who want to revise what they learned.
Teaching on computers is often thought to be the modern way to educate children, but
as everything, it has it's downsides. Students who participate through their own devices
from their own home, can be prone to be less active. In a lot of cases there are some
other things to think about or just some small temptations to make you less than 100%
dedicated to the teaching going on presently. Teaching online requires a different kind
of mindset from the student than normal teaching, because the teacher isn't at your
home, telling you to put your phone away, so it can be very easy to start enjoying the
company of internet cats instead of boring trigonometry. One way to solve this is to
have a supervisor, while the students are being taught online, but then it would be just
the same for the supervising adult to teach the topic.
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