Learning Trades Online | Origin: EL121
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Teaching Skills and Trades Online --> Learning Trades Online
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I appreciated seeing that context of the skills is as important as the skill itself.
As a medical assistant instructor, it is imperative to use case studies and patient scenarios to create simulated situations to enhance critical thinking and applied skills.
Seeing the bigger picture in learning trades is not only understand the scope of what these career hold but the kind of learning that can assist in the success of these trades.
It's important to get hands on practice but it is equally important to improve your problem solving skills to couple with the practical training.
"The ability to apply what is learned in a meaningful and relevant context demonstrates what exactly has been learned. It also provides students with an opportunity to think about new possibilities and modified skills that might be required in specific contexts of use."
Students can simply regurgitate information provided to them, but when they can demonstrate what they have learned, it shows a true understanding. Having students reason and think through things, they are better prepared to work in their preferred field.
with the unfortunate removal or defunding of vocational education in public shcools its nice to belong to an institution focused on teaching industrial technology.
Teaching students anything that applies to the trade they are learning will help them to be successful.
Not having played a single video game, I would have to learn skills to be an effective teacher utitllizing video games, as well as AI and VR techniques.
trade schools help alot because not everyone can go to college because of expence
Simulations can be very effective in an online learing environment as long as they work correctly. We have all experience technical difficulties and these "gliches" can cause the student to lose motivation in that particular lesson.
I have attempted to use a selection of simulation programs in my classroom. All of them ran very slow, were glitchy, and seemed to overemphasize tiny details that the author found important instead of focusing on the big picture. When it comes to troubleshooting residential HVAC systems, sweeping the floor when you are done is not the highest priority. Also, my students are gaming on the most modern, highest speed consoles, with the latest graphics. Most simulation software out there is a technologically advanced as a Sunday school flannelgraph.
Our school has the luxury of being a hybrid program with online lectures and in-house labs.
As a trade instructor the use of simulated scenerio's is very helpful. There are many different electrical products to be wired in our field. The use of simulated install worksheets definetly helps challenge students to learn to calculate and simulate installation of these products that can't be aquired by the school for hands on training.
