Week 9 Reflection : Learning Styles, Project Plan Completion, Sean's Course Evaluation, Eftekhar's Project Draft Feedback 

Sean's Course Evaluation

Honor to whom honor is due! Thank you Sean, for your tactful step-by-step guidance, for your "uncomplacent" feedback !

Eftekhar's Project Draft Feedback for Foli

Thank you, Eftekhar for the feedback. I have appreciated your invaluable suggestions and prompts! Thank you!  

Learning Styles

The hot discussion topic this week has been about Learning Styles; the teacher and the students’ Learning Styles. The teacher’s Learning Styles influence his teaching Style, which may be innate  or acquired through life experiences or the system we live in. It is now demonstrated that the teacher’s teaching style has a strong bearing on students’ performance.

According to Georges Lucas  "Traditional education can be extremely isolating -- the curriculum is often abstract and not relevant to real life, teachers and students don't usually connect with resources and experts outside of the classroom, and many schools operate as if they were separate from their communities”.
The tendency today is to move from the traditional, one-way, lecture-based, teacher-Mr.-know-all-centered teaching to the interactive-lecture, student-centered teaching practices. Thus, teacher and students engage in a market exchange of ideas, a sort of rendez-vous of give and take where everybody learns happily. Here the introduction and the help of technology is of paramount importance to bring the teaching and learning out of the classroom walls and create what is termed as a classroom without borders. In fact, technology is not “the be-all and end-all in teaching and learning, it is just a tool, a means that the teacher judiciously chooses and uses for his/her students’ needs.  Ultimately, the teacher is the MC in class, the prime mover, the principal actor, the “master”, the teaching and learning service provider in classrooms and in schools.

Project Draft and full-fledged Project submission

The most stress-generating task of the last two week has been the submission within deadline of the Project Draft for peer review and feedback (week 8) and the full-fledged Project for Sean’s feedback (week 9). Fortunately, I have made it. Many ( 13 other coursemates ) have made it too. I hope that those who haven’t submitted theirs yet, will soon do so too.

The Webskills Course journey will soon come to an end……
Foli.