Scenario: A high school history teacher, located on the west coast of the United States, wants to showcase to her students new exhibits being held at two prominent New York City museums. The teacher wants her students to take a "tour" of the museums and be able to interact with the museum curators, as well as see the art work on display. Afterward, the teacher would like to choose two pieces of artwork from each exhibit and have the students participate in a group critique of the individual work of art. As a novice of distance learning and distance learning technologies, the teacher turned to the school district’s instructional designer for assistance. In the role of the instructional designer, what distance learning technologies would you suggest the teacher use to provide the best learning experience for her students?
Video Conference:
Video Conference has become essential in the educational field. The use of video conference in this situation becomes an important element for the development of the classes integrating experiences where the student can interact in real time with the curators of the museum. Questions and comments can be shared about different artwork selections.
Most of the museums are integrating tools to share their exhibitions online. The virtual aspect of this tool plays an important piece in today’s education. Shortening distances makes it a cost effective tool. The fact of facilitating a class or orientation with the use of a “two-way” communication system makes the experience valuable for all learners. It is a great opportunity that allows students to share with the experts.
New York State Museum offers an excellent program named Virtual Classroom. This interactive program allows presenting different topics tied to the Learning Standards of New York. This 45 minutes programs is offered in Wednesdays at 4 different times to allow more schools to participate from different places in the nation. It is necessary to register before to have access.
An example is shared from Marshall Elementary School in Lewisburg, Tennessee. This school brings live animals and education from the Tennessee Aquarium into the classroom. This school is connected with other schools in North Carolina and Maryland. Students from schools connected share questions about the experiences being shared. Topics shared are related to Dinosaurs and Rain Forest.
"Our students learned to become better communicators through the interview process and learned about geography too,"
"The excitement generated by the conferences helped support the students' confidence, and we were able to see an improvement in student presentations in the classroom. The video conferences were a wonderful enhancement to our traditional learning experiences." said Shepherd.
Video Conference has become essential in the educational field. The use of video conference in this situation becomes an important element for the development of the classes integrating experiences where the student can interact in real time with the curators of the museum. Questions and comments can be shared about different artwork selections.
Most of the museums are integrating tools to share their exhibitions online. The virtual aspect of this tool plays an important piece in today’s education. Shortening distances makes it a cost effective tool. The fact of facilitating a class or orientation with the use of a “two-way” communication system makes the experience valuable for all learners. It is a great opportunity that allows students to share with the experts.
New York State Museum offers an excellent program named Virtual Classroom. This interactive program allows presenting different topics tied to the Learning Standards of New York. This 45 minutes programs is offered in Wednesdays at 4 different times to allow more schools to participate from different places in the nation. It is necessary to register before to have access.
An example is shared from Marshall Elementary School in Lewisburg, Tennessee. This school brings live animals and education from the Tennessee Aquarium into the classroom. This school is connected with other schools in North Carolina and Maryland. Students from schools connected share questions about the experiences being shared. Topics shared are related to Dinosaurs and Rain Forest.
"Our students learned to become better communicators through the interview process and learned about geography too,"
"The excitement generated by the conferences helped support the students' confidence, and we were able to see an improvement in student presentations in the classroom. The video conferences were a wonderful enhancement to our traditional learning experiences." said Shepherd.
Wiki:
The use of wikis is a tool that promotes collaboration between students and students and students with instructors. This tool provides the capability of many participants collaborating into one document. This situation requires a place where groups of students will critiques two samples of artwork. Wiki offers the opportunity to all students to become participants on this project. The wiki a perfect component of “blended learning” where there is a combination of classroom instruction and online interaction. Wikis allows the integration of visuals that will help the students make references to the artwork and add their comments. We should not ignore that this activity will not only provide art experiences; with the use of wikis writing skills are being developed.
The blog Digital Arts Technology Academy is a great example of how students collaborate by the use of wikis presenting their portfolios that include a collection of work related to arts.
For this situation, the ID can suggest the use of videoconference in coordination with the museums. This facilitates an alternative use in the classrooms. We are integration collaboration and writing skills with the use of wikis. We need to keep in mind that today’s learner interact with a diversity of technologies as part of their daily life. “The effective utilization of distance education classrooms require a new set of skills for most educators” (Simonson 2009, pag.119) As ID we need to provide learning experiences that will satisfy the technological reality that our learners live.
The use of wikis is a tool that promotes collaboration between students and students and students with instructors. This tool provides the capability of many participants collaborating into one document. This situation requires a place where groups of students will critiques two samples of artwork. Wiki offers the opportunity to all students to become participants on this project. The wiki a perfect component of “blended learning” where there is a combination of classroom instruction and online interaction. Wikis allows the integration of visuals that will help the students make references to the artwork and add their comments. We should not ignore that this activity will not only provide art experiences; with the use of wikis writing skills are being developed.
The blog Digital Arts Technology Academy is a great example of how students collaborate by the use of wikis presenting their portfolios that include a collection of work related to arts.
For this situation, the ID can suggest the use of videoconference in coordination with the museums. This facilitates an alternative use in the classrooms. We are integration collaboration and writing skills with the use of wikis. We need to keep in mind that today’s learner interact with a diversity of technologies as part of their daily life. “The effective utilization of distance education classrooms require a new set of skills for most educators” (Simonson 2009, pag.119) As ID we need to provide learning experiences that will satisfy the technological reality that our learners live.
Reference
Data, (2011). Data Wiki Home. Retrieve March 19, 2011, from
Educational World, (2011). Desktop Videoconferencing: Novelty or Legitimate Teaching Tool? Retrieve March18, 2011, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr120.shtml
New York State Museum, (2011). Virtual Classroom. Retrieve March 19, 20011, from http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/education/pv.html
Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2009).
Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance
education (4th ed.) Boston, MA: Pearson.
Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance
education (4th ed.) Boston, MA: Pearson.
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