Being a Social Studies teacher, Online Research is a great way to implement online learning in my classroom. I have found that the research MUST be teacher guided, or else students tend to investigate sources that are not necessarily credible, and therefore unusable.
Online research can be use for any content in my World History class that I want my students to investigate and analyze in depth. For example, next week I am teaching students about proxy wars that contributed to the Cold War. There are 8 wars that I have to cover in a short period of time. Having students engage in Online research for a specific war, and then share what they learned with the class could be a great lesson that incorporates online learning in my classroom.
Pedagogical strategies that students would be using would be inductive reasoning, because I would provide students with an example of what I want them to find in their research, along with a guide for legitimate sources to use in their search. I would also use deductive reasoning, students would have to evaluate research they find online, and decide if it is credible or not. Then students would have to interpret the research in order to share their findings or what they learned to their peers.
I think a specific online learning experience that would be more difficult to use with my students would be podcast, or video casts. Our school district has little to no technology available for students, and a limited amount of computer labs. With the districts lack of technology to create a podcast or video cast, I could probably not use this in my classroom. I also cannot expect my students to have such technology at home to complete such task, thus making it virtually (no pun intended) impossible to use this technology in my classroom at this time. Hopefully in future years, our district will obtain some current technology that will allow students and teachers alike to utilize online learning experiences often.
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