PatrickTheTeacher

When people think about school, they think about sitting behind a desk, and listening to a teacher talk at them, or writing down information from the board, or reading through large sums of text. Certainly when I think about my time at school, I remember the most common way to learn was through text. HOW BORING! Although I do understand that text has its place and is sometimes the most appropriate way to deliver learning. The utilisaion of media in learning has the potential to create high quality learning experiences for students. In particular using images for learning can provide learning experiences that cannot be repliacted via learning soley through text.  Images hold a lot of information. They can be used to communicate (e.g. emogis), represent ideas, provide evidence, and tell stories. Sometimes it is more appropriate to use images instead of text. For example: using graphs to present data, may provide the audience with a visulation that is easier to understand. Look at the...

Blogs allow individual’s to provide commentary or insight on a certain topic or event. In the education setting blogs are beneficial to both the teacher and student. Students can use blogs entries to reflect on their learning, comment on the learning content, and provide their opinion. Moreover, Teachers can view their students’ blogs to understand their students' perspectives, track their understanding, identify gaps in learning, identify high level thinking, and follow their learning journey. Furthermore, blogs allow others to view and comment on entries. This offers a space for peers and teachers to provide valuable feedback based on the entries. As blogs entries are listed reverse-chronologically, students and teachers can track learning. Students can also view their peers learning journey which can show different methods of processing information. Blogs are not only made for entering text; users can insert images as well as provide links to other websites and multimedia which ...