Connecting your Instructional Style with your Students' Learning Style
An instructor must realize that an instruction style must adapt to the students' learning style. In this technological age where students learn more on Google and Youtube than they do at accredited universities, I, as an instructor, try to go with the grain, rather than against it. I embrace Google and Youtube when I convey my lesson. Both sources have exceptional and entertaining real-life examples of the coursework outlined in the book and my students seem to truly embrace this technique.
Martin,
Yes it can. The challenge is having the time to match the video to the topic. Once you have that done you have a very valuable and engaging resource ready to go.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
That's a great idea. Youtube has so much entertainment value that it can function as a very appealing learning medium.
ROBIN,
Great work in bringing technology into the classroom via a format that they are familiar with and comfortable using. I know these videos are welcomed by your students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Hello, I too use youtube and other websites to reach my students. I set up a channel on youtube specifically for my students to view - I uploaded some homemade computer instruction videos there for their viewing.
Martin,
This is such a valuable tool for students to use and be comfortable with. Good strategy to get them familiar with and using online research tools.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I always highly recommend Google searches for researching projects. I think being online is familiar to most students and makes learning more like playing, in some respects. Also, seeing the design of online interfaces in various contexts provides endless and constant examples of the work design students are aspiring to.
AmyLyn,
This is what good teaching should be about. You are responding to the needs of your students in relation to imparting the needed content in a logical and engaging way. Keep up the good work and continue to impact the lives of your students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I agree with the instructional style being more about what works for our students. With this in mind, I try to incorporate a myriad of different activities or components that keep them engaged. I try to break up the time with different activities and look at this time to feel more like entertainment where they don't even realize how much they are learning. This makes the time fly and everyone looking forward to what I have planned next.
I'm with you, Eric. I've discovered some wonderful websites and videos that are both smart and smart-alecky (which appeals to me as much as it does to my students!). Getting someone who looks and sounds more like them than I do who can make the points I'm trying to make is wonderfully effective.
Carol Penn-Romine
Eric,
This is what adaptive instruction is all about. Instructors today need to be able to incorporate all types of technology and activities into their instructional delivery based upon their best judgment in terms of the ROI for their students. You are doing just that with your use of Google and Youtube.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
