Hi Peter:
There are many choices available for an instructor to choose from in order to provide the best mix, considering the current batch of students, their learning styles, the resources available to the instructor, and the course content. Coordinating these will provide for better student outcomes.
Regards, Barry
it helps them understand better
Hi Jeffrey:
Great!. Having a finished product can go a long ways to help provide the student with what is expected. I think most students, if they are rightly motivated, want to do the best they can in school. So, showing them what is expected should really help them.
Regards, Barry
Hi Aimee:
Most instructors have many resources and media choices to choose from, and they all have their place. Our job is to scale down to what will work best for the student to achieve optimal results.
Regards, Barry
I like to have a finished example of what the students are going to prepare that day so they know what they are making and what they should be aiming for. This helps students understand what they are doing for the day.
the relevance to the course objectives and the learning style of the students.
Hi Fortuna:
You got it. There is a lot of media choices to choose from. I think the key is to determine what is needed to be taught and how best to present it given the resources available. Flexibility will keep students interest.
Regards, Barry
Hi Elizabeth:
Mixing it up as you descrive can only help reach your students in the learning method they are most accustomed to.
Regards, Barry
This really has to do with the subject matter that is being taught. Some subjects are more adaptable to power point presentations and others to flip charts or chalkboards.
I use ppt presentation and white board when I lecture. I think it is very important to use more than one media due to the various types of learners. I lecture to auditory, visual and kinectic learners. The auditory learners will record my lectures, ppt is effective for the visual learner. Writing on the white board and lab skills for the kinetic learners is used at my facility.
Hi Blake:
Great. Keeping your lessons and associated media tied to learning objectives seems to provide the best opportunity for students to achieve their learning needs. As you state, mixing it up is also a great way to keep students interested.
Regards, Barry
It depends on the type of class I am going to present and what are the learning objectives. Many times I use a mixture of media for my classes in order to achieve different types of stimulation and response from the students. This usually equates to using PowerPoint for explaining facts, doctrine, theory, and concepts them moving to a White Board to work through examples with the students providing input.
We also provide the PowerPoint presentations to our students so they have a reference to take with them and use in the future. This means the students also have the notes portion of each slide available to them to provide explanations and see all of the references for the information on the slide.
Hi Beth:
Yes, group dynamics can be an important factor on student success so your effort in choosing media that closely matches the consensus of your class is a better way to attempt to get your point across. I agree that you are being more personal in this manner, and that helps the students feel better about their learning.
Regards, Barry
Media decisions are completely contingent on the class dynamic.
Age, background and the material being covered that particular lesson plan.
I adjust media on a class by class basis, not day by day basis.
Hi Evan:
Great! I'm sure you find younger students are more oriented to the digital media. But I find older students feel a greater sense of accomplishment from digital lessons and resources, perhaps more so that their younger classmates. Feeling good about learning helps contribute to the student's overall feeling of well being.
Regards, Barry
Hi Kelly:
Good. We want to use what will be best for the students given the media available and our access to it. It's important we avoid doing what we're most comforatble with without regard for what is in the best interest of the student.
Regards, Barry
Our school wants the students to take greater advantage of their student portal, so i generally choose digital media. I can post PP presentations, videos, websites and study guides directlky to their class portal. This makes grat use of the new flat screen TVs on class.
Evan
What type of learners do I have; what type of media is available for me to use; and what type of media do I know how to use.
Hi Douglass:
Well, it sounds like you've come up with a creative and fun way to help your students remember needed information that will help them in their classes. I think anytime an instructor can make learning fun and interesting, the students will do better and tetain the intended material better.
Regards, Barry
I like to use pictures in my kitchen when lecturing on different animals especially when we reach the game and lamb rotation as well as seafood. I am always suprised by how many students can't recognize many types of animals. So I have turned it into a game. I pass out a set of 20 to 30 pictures to each group of students that have been devided equally. Then I have them identify the animals. Example- caribou, grouse, bison, whits tail deer, etc. I slip in some pictures of terraine where they might live and other key points I will then be lecturing about.This really helps them to understand how different animals need to be treated with different cooking methods. I am able to show them differences in leaner meats to fattier meats.I can then talk about how certain fish because of where they live are higher in fat then those for instance that are in warmer waters.
