The reflection of Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: The Instructional Dynamics of Picture Books and Primary Classrooms
This article taught me about the multimodal, the field that I never treated as an educational material before. Multimodal can provide child more information by the text's size, color, font, and placement. In the article, researchers also cooperated with other teachers to apply the theory in elementary school. Based on the result, I learned if the teacher can guide students in a positive direction, e.g. in Willa Taylor's room, "if the children are not allowed to speak or interact during a book's reading, then they are less able to pick up all the different elements of the story."(p.277), students could be cultivated for preparation of the digital environment which is more attractive, versatile, optional and functional. In the media age, teachers are more responsible for additional roles, as a resource manager, a co-constructor of knowledge, and design consultant who gives[provides] feedback and advice on the texts students design. (p. 280)
This article pointed out many hurdles that prevent the online-course from success, e.g. lacking social presence. But technically, virtual learning has lots of advantage and well-designed lesson plans could fix the obstacle abovementioned. Under the belief of constructive approach, educators should "provide a learning environment that allows users to explore and construct their own meaning." (p. 78) In the article, authors took a platform "Second Life" as an example to share their resolutions by ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) In each step, teachers need to have close observation of their students and personally understand the platform well. For the new "gamer", the lesson should be designed more carefully in order to decrease the sense of frustration. To strengthen the connection between students and teachers, this research provided some tips for educators. After their research, about three-quarters participants "were satisfied with the near face-to-face opportunity" (p. 81)!
Comments
Post a Comment