Fatma Fattoumi
Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, the University of Carthage
Location Tunisia
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I think other learning types will be possible here, too,Avril!
Think of collaboration. Your students can collaborate to solve problems
They can also produce geometrical designs using a digital tool. This will help them work together and collaborate to prepare the design. -
Fatma Fattoumi replied to Sol Builes
Hello Sol. I see that you've got what it exactly needs, helping others is a gift in itself and it needs to be practised to survive and be part of what you are.
Personally I find helping others intrinsically motivating.
I also think that one cannot be a teacher unless he/she has a bit of this talent and he/she cannot continue as a teacher if he/she does...
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I agree with you and Reilly and Reeves that it is important to implement active learning in a flipped class, blended, or fully online mode.
The question is how can we guarantee that all educational institutes have the capacity or whether they are willing to implement such schemes? Will students in the same country have equal access to digitalized learning... -
Hello! @VuyisekaDubulaMajola
If learning takes place
asynchronously viewing video demonstrations, reading and writing assignments and research projects can be learning activities.
You can decide whether the work is a preclass or post class activity. Although they might happen at home they do not actually fit the conventional meaning of 'homework '.... -
Hi Christine! Thank you for sharing your experience with us. It is inspiring!
I also have had difficulties with technophobes where I work.
We started to collaborate and share and this helped many of them grow flexible mindsets.
Some of them now allow students to use their computers and mobile phones to search for information or use an online dictionary.... -
Hello Tim!
You don't have to include the six types of learning in one single teaching scenario. It all depends on what you chose to teach in each course. For example if you see that your students need practice or collaborative work you can include activities that are dedicated to this.
You can browse the lesson designs on the Learning designer cite. You... -
Hello Dominique! Pleased to welcome you among us.
Learning how to use and implement digital tools in the classroom is vital for blended and online teaching.
In section 1.6 the BOLD course offers a pdf document including recommendations of different digitil tools with useful links.
I think you will find the document very helpful.
In section 1.8 all... -
Fatma Fattoumi replied to Nicole Lee
This is the point Nicole and thank you for this remark. Success is now conditioned by teacher collaboration.
I agree with you that teacher dialogue is very important to improve teaching strategies. This can make peer review of teaching scenarios easier and create a culture of auto-and peer-evaluation among teachers. -
Hello Nicole!
Nice to see senior teachers motivated for learning new strategies to improve the way they teach.
I am senior teacher too and I have always advocated continuous teacher development programs in my university.
This course has helped me a lot . The course per se is very informative and the learning community discussions can add alot.
So ,do not... -
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I am currently interested in how collective memories are shaped.
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Sounds great! I am really interested on how technology is changing things around us.
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@JianxinWang Hello!
Thank you Yanan and John for the insightful comments.
I think that we are not talking about which learning type is the best. They are all good and necessary to helps tudents develop their concepts and practices. They all form a hlistic approach so they and according the Learning Designer should be presented in a pie chart that compares... -
Hello Catia! Welcome to the course. I think you will find it very interesting and you will be familiar with many new strategies to engage your students in innovative learning environments.
Your English is good. What matters is that we understand each other and we communicate successfully. -
Hello @RuudVanDerKolk !
Nice to see colleagues from other sectors joining our learning community to learn from and contribute to it. -
Hi Martin! Yes it is true that nothing can replace reality and virtual environments are just to support this reality.
Many digital tools can offer teachers and learners the opportunity to do some pracrice. The success of the implementation of such tools depends on how successful teachers are in designing pracrice-based activities.
In my country students... -
Fatma Fattoumi made a comment
Many of us underestimate the value of peer review. We sometimes think that we should not review the work of a Professor or a Senior teacher namely when we are still juniors because we think they are supposed to know better.
On the contrary, as teachers we gain experience only in what we do and practise. It is impossible that we gain experience in what we do... -
@SakeJager hello, the peer review activity is one of the most enjoyable in this course.
It allows you know how much you have retained from the course.
It helps you get a clear idea of your work's strengths and weaknesses.
You can learn in this step how to give positive and constructive feedback to peers.
You can receive feedback that helps you improve your... -
I agree with you that interactive slides are very important to add liveliness to the lesson and engage students through the use of multimedia.
Try canva (www.canva.com) and you will find that it is very interactive.
It does not only allow teacher to prepare interactive slides. It also involves different templates including videos, resumes, Stories,... -
Hello Cynthia you have made a good combination here.
I agree with you that digital literacy should include using new digital technologies and cutting -edge pedagogies. This course serves this end.
Online and blended learning is not about using technology; it is about harnessing technology to improve learning and teaching. -
Hi Stephanie I think that the course can help you a lot since you are doing a Masters in Digital Education.
We hope also to learn from your experience as a student in Digital Education. -
Hello Stephanie! Sounds great!
The course is aimed at providing an encompassing framework for learning.
The pedagogies discussed here are fit to all ages and are crosscultural. So I guess they can be very helpful in teaching history courses to different ages.
The course also helps improve synchronous, asynchronous, online, face-to-face and blended... -
Hello dear colleagues!
Thank you for sharing your opinions and ideas.To answer some of violet' s inquiries I think we have to think first of the essence of Conversational Framework and how it is based on many learnin theories( see Laurillard, 2009).
The Framework aligns with many learning theories such as behaviotism and positive reinforcement; self... -
The implementation of blended learning needs joint forces of different intervenants. These can include the organisation leadership, the teacher, and the student.
Each one of these should have the right characteristics that should lead to the success of blended learning programme.
1.leadership team: should set up measurable goals of the implementation... -
Fatma Fattoumi replied to Martin Watts
Hello Martin
This is exactly what the course consist in.
We come her with many expectations, we share our knowledge and expertise, and we enlarge our connections.
The idea of thinking to do the best for your institution is what many of us seek to achieve.
This course has gathered many teachers from different cultural backrounds. Most of them, agreed... -
Hello Tumelo thank you for sharing with us your expectations. I am sure you will find the course very interesting.
I hope you share your concerns with us because it will help us discuss challenges and cooperate to find solutions. -
Hello Michael we are so happy you are sharing this with us.
I am sure the course will add a lot to many of us professionally and personally.
This course along with providing teachers with efficient teaching strategies, allows for the formation of a collaborative learning community.So you are welcome to seek help from colleagues in case you meet any...
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Hello Dr-khalifaGad we are pleased that you are among us.
It is heart warming that so many teacher have the grit to cope with the challenges and are aware of how to do so.
One of the important motives of success as a teacher is to have good assessment of the present challenges, figure out the lacks and have a future vision of how to cope with them. -
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What is great about all digital tools is that they are not static. They improve based on user's evaluation surveys. So if a teacher is convinced with the efficiency of a certain tool today he/she might change his/her mind tomorow.
What I want to say is that it is not about the tool itself as much it is about how the tool can be harnessed to serve a course... -
Hello shirley!
I agree with you that we all imrovised at the beginning because the change was all of a sudden. No one was really prepared excspt few who were conducting research on blended learning.
At least they have had enough theoretical information of how to act.
Many of us had only our long experience in teaching, which was not enough.
All what... -
Tha sounds great Shirley. You have a great experence.
I think what makes a good teacher is a great passion to remain a learner at the first place.
Grit is also important to grow professionally. I am sure you will find the course very interesting. -
@GaryLThomas I agree with you concerning doing things 'uncounsciously'. But I would call it intuitively. Many colleagues say they used to do many of the learning activities intuitively. But later, we all realised that the learning designer helps in making teaching more organised.
I clear dedign therefore should reflect our ubderstanding of what we are teaching,... -
Fatma Fattoumi replied to Nese Inan
Hello @StephenNealon I think if the video is short and goes to the point it will be very helpful.
A successful video,I think could be to explain a concept in a brief and accurate manner.
Another is to show learners how to use a digital tool, or how to draw an elephant. So videos can be adapted to the students' needs and ages. -
Hello Irna and welcome to the course!
I am sure this mediated experience will add a lot to you as a teacher and as a Master student. You can understand the course from both perspectives. Your comments as such will be very valuable.So good luck!
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Hello @PippaSutcliffe
There is no comparison between both designs.Design 2 (correlation) is edited from the original( risk assessment).
The change happens only when you introduce changes to an already existing design.
You can try adapting one of the already existing designs when you click on edit. The features of the design can only show only...
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@AJITHKUMARCHELOTE @StephenNealon this is helpful thank you for sharing your ideas.
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Fatma Fattoumi made a comment
Thank you dear colleagues, Stephen and Ajith, for warning others that their data may be lost when they open another tab.
I have started this course last year and since then I have seen how many efforts have been made to imptove the course content and how the FutureLearn platform works. It is amasing how every one is taking learners ' comments into...
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@LorenaRonchi hello Lorena. Thank you for choosing to be part of this learning community.
I encourage you to share your ideas with us in English so that everyone can understand what you are saying. So you do not need to be profecient to be understood.
What matters is that we share our expertise in teaching and exchange ideas and concerns.Sharing needs...
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Andrew K
Hello Andrew and welcome to the course.
Good remark. However, the answer is in the diagram. Indeed, there is modulate generate cycle between learner and learner. It would be a redundancy if it is repeated in the next circles of the diagram.
As you can see the CF emphacises the centrality of learner's role. Learners can learn new concepts from their peers.... -
@MichaelTan Hi, l agree with you, the implementation of these new methods has started to change the face of teaching at the university. When I entred universiry in the 1990s we could not move from our chairs. It was as if the class belonged to the teacher and we were just unwanted guests.
Today many of us are embracing new mindsets and opted for 'active...
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That is true @ThuỷNguyễnThịThanh Digital methods, have been here for many years before the Pandamic. Even blended learning methods have been introduced at an earlier stage. The pandemic was just a trigger to help put all theories into practice at a universal scale.
In my country we have set up a virtual university since 2002, nobody however has recognised... -
Fatma Fattoumi replied to Mariana Exposito
Thank you John I liked the programme. I think I will use it because it seems user driendly. Some tools unfortunately are difficult to use that’s why they are less used compared to others.
I think apps designers should join us here to know whether their designs are working or not. As teachers we can give them very constructive feedback on their products. -
I agree with you Harriet. I usually give a practical example on padlet . Sometimes I upload a video of myelf or I ask some students to volunteer and prepare a role play or an interview. They upload the video on the Padlet so that their friends can comment on or express likes. I start by writing immediate positive feedbck to encourage other students to upload...
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I agree with you Michelle the pandamic has revealed the intensity of regional , national and global digital divides. I think that in the few coming years people will notice the difference between those who took the initiative to digitalise their educational institutions and those who did not. It is a matter of policy making.
I think, as teachers, we have to... -
I agree with you kate, using digital tools affect how students behave in class. They show very cooperative an helpful.
Sometimes I think that students want to take different roles in class, roles that reflect their real identities. They want to take part in the creation of the learning envirnment. They are looking for a sense of belonging.
My students like... -
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I would like to suggest this tool which I found very useful. It is very convenient to assess our digital capacities as teachers, as well as the digital capacity of our institutes.
https://educators-go-digital.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ -
@JohnI thank you for suggesting this tool I haven't tried it but I think I am going to try it soon.
I was also thinking of discussing the possibility of using VR in role play activities and oral presentations. One of my colleagues tried it and found it helps in improving students' self- confidence. The problem is that they are still unaffordable for many...
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It is true Diana! Once your courses are blended you can never go back. It is like when you start acting and things change around you because of your action. When we went back face- to- face, my coleagues and I couldn't teach in the old ways; what we have learned has become the norm for us. We couldn't stop using digital tools and new pedagogies in teaching...
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Hello Alexander! You have just raised many important questions.
I think that both personal (cognitive, personality traits, attitudes..)and situational (learning environment, culture) factors impact how our students behave during the learning time. All of these factors are, however, invisible to the teacher.Our role as teachers, I think, is to create...
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Hello Ian, Cathleen, Jing and Nardine!
It is a great pleasure to see you here. Because when I think of how much I have already learnt from this course, I wish that more colleagues join us and do not miss such agreat opportunity to investigate, practice, discuss, collaborate,and produce.
The course is a great venue for teacher development because it...
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Fatma Fattoumi made a comment
Hello I am Fatma.I have been learning with future learn since 2020. The experience has changed how I approach learning and teaching.
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Hi Liudmila! According to Rayan et al (2006) video games have a motivational pull. COMPETENCE, AUTONOMY AND RRLATEDNESS.
Make your students feel competent through practice and production. Make them autonomous through inquiry and production. Make them related through discussion and collaboration.
When one's course owns this motivational pull, students won't... -
I agree with you. We have to think positively about peer review. It should be seen as a way to exchange ideas in order to benefit students' learning.
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Hello Carole! Even if you have short teaching sessions you still can assign collaboration and production activities.
You just have to know how to manage time. Instead of allocating 20 minutes to collaboration make it just 10 and make the activity shorter.
Some production activities like preparing a flyer can be done in 15 minutes especially if the...
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Hello Theresa! I agree with you that big challenges need great and collective efforts. I am sure you are going to advance professionally through this course.
I hope you have already started your learning community at your institute because collaboration and sharing help a lot and can positively impact students' learning.
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@carolecousins Hello the purpose is not where to teach, in physical or virtual classrooms. Indeed, what we are learning here is how to implement novel frameworks, theories, and practices. These should not totally cut with what we already know about pedagogy. They should rather amend the gaps and find solutions for earlier challenges.
The conversational...
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Thank you Diana for the supportive comment.
I think digital education as a global phenomenon cannot be fought in any country as long as people get connected to the internet and are passionate to learn. No matter how sad the news that we hear from Afghsnistan, people will preserve their ties with their global online communities.
I agree ! We are here to... -
@EduardoMórlan I think this is quite interesting.
https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.4135/9781446249215.n21 -
@EduardoMórlan Motivation is extrinsic and intrinsic. When a student completes a task to avoid being considered a lazy student or when looking for a reward such as socialization, motivation comes from outside. When a student uses canvas to make a design he is intrinsically motivated. First, he masters the rules; second, he likes designing per se....
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I think addressing corruption can lead to making better policies in what concerns the other issues.
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Fatma Fattoumi made a comment
My passion is equal access to education during emergencies. Reducing regional, national, and international digital divide and improving digital literacy among learners and teachers.
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Hello. My name is Fatma. I am from Tunisia. I work as a university teacher.
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A good question I found here @RobEdwards !
If I am using Google classroom, or any other digital tool, my students and I enjoy flexibility and access to different materials that we can't enjoy in a conventional f2f classroom.
In a f2f classroom it would take me time to set up the stage for a digitally aided classroom. Some times I would face technical...
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Eduardo Mórlan
Hi Eduardo ! The questionnaire is available now.
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I believe that some teachers are more charismatic than others. So they are better at attracting the audience if we may consider our students like that.
At the end of the day I feel that we are show men and women. We no longer sell just content to our students. We sell them skills, methods, and tactics to help them acquire content and how to use it in a way...
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Hello @RVO !
I always bebieve that for each problem there is a solution.Through contacting many teachers in countries where there is acute digital divide I noticed, like when kids resort to public internet service providers (PISP) to play games, they can do the same to do a collaborative task.
I think sharing is the main skill that students can...
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I agree with you @YoufuKe ! The pandemic period made teachers and students gain new skills such as remote effective communication, resilience and patience, time management, tech savviness, and others.
I think the byproduct of this change will be the promotion of the teaching quality and a better professional inclusion of students.
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Hi Edwardo!
We have to understand that teachers are humans. Human's inclination to accept change differs from one person to another. It is like jumping in a cold pool in winter. Some people would see it an exciting experience and others would see it the worst nightmare and would prefer to stay in their comfort zone.
I have worked with many teachers( in...
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That is true Edwardo using the Learning Designer in different courses is good because it allows for more practice.
In addition to the advantages you mentioned I would like to add that the tool allows for easy updating of designs from year to year. This helps teachers' self correction and self-improvement.
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Hi Graham!
It is wonderful to see people from different professions and with different social roles having concern about learning and teaching as common and shared objectives.In the years prior to the pandemic, we, teachers, or at least some of us have thought hat with technological advance people did not care about learning.
What is unexpected is...
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Hello Yanan!
I agree with you the course shows how the six learning types can be implemented.There will be good guidance in the next sessions on how to choose the best digital tool to assign the most appropriate activities within each learning type.
All participants are expected to share their opinions, ideas, past experiences, and questions.
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Hello Edwardo! Nice to meet people with a long teaching experience with such an enthusiasm, yearning to learn and to be messengers who transmit knowledge from one generation to another.
Our profession is very noble because we try to enlighten those kids in ordinary days. Today with the new emergencies our job has become tougher but more engaging and more...
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@ShubhangiGupta Hello, I am really glad that we can hear students' opinions because the purpose of the BOLD course is to present a framework that prioritises the student perspective.
My colleagues and I would always welcome students' ideas because I think they are helpful since our course designs are based on students' needs. Knowing how you think and what...
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Januvi Jegatheswaran
@JanuviJegatheswaran Hello. What you've done is a good start. To improve it I suggest you change the icons to show a certain activity is being done online and not fae to face.
You can also add more activities that require the use of some digital tools. Try to start a Padled on which you and the learners can upload activities.
Or, you can also use...
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Hello James. We are eager to learn from your long experience in teaching.
I agree with you that experience is highly valued in out sector. I , too, have a long experience of teaching but some times I learn things from less experienced colleagues. So, I think creativity matters , too. For this reason were here blending different potential to create a strong... -
@BBKhadee well yes you are right. We still have the problem of formality which is a human invention by the way. So , it may change because of online interaction.
If you are following, some celebrities are trying to open their cameras on TV shows while they are wearing pygamas. So we still don't know whether this is going to affect our understanding of...
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Fatma Fattoumi made a comment
It is good to see that what we have been learning and sharing was beneficial for all of us. It is not easy to create a satisfied learning community. This course has succeeded in doing so, to a great extent. As teachers from different cultures, we have forgotten about our differences. All that we will remember is our unforgettable learning experience. I agree...
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Yes Khdee, that's right many of my students too preferred texting because they thought it would be safer. Generally, some students are bigger risk-takers than others.
Online learning is a new experience and people generally fear novelty. Teachers too were not sure they could be able to learn how to help their students in a short period. Howerver, training... -
@ChitSaing Interesting. So do I. I believe that digital storytelling is important in education.
Therefore, we should look for a creative, critical, and powerful way to help our students.
Using digital storytelling tools is one of them.For example, Comic Master, among many other tools, allows you to create your own short graphic novel. Using this...
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@GrantG l agree with you in that the Learning Designer allows for the building of a student centred learning.
The scenario ,from acquisition to production , can be designed by the teacher. However how learning evolves depends on students' contributions.
Therefore, even the teacher cannot be aware of all the learning outcomes since there will be...
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@ChitSaing that's true that some experimental learning will always need face to face sessions.
In blended learning, students will have the opportunity to study through doing because they can practise theories they have leant through acquisition and investigation.
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Pratima Agnihotri
Here is the link to the video that shows Google Education updates
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Pratima Agnihotri
Hello Pratima. It is true that Senior students know a lot about technology. They are always referred to as "digital natives". However, I see that there are always innovations in what concerns new technologies. So, even Senior students will have always something new to learn .
Take for example the innovations made by Google Education. There are new...
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Hello Alfred. Thank you for mentioning the Cognitive Apprenticeship theory. However, I see that the Conversational Framework works in a better way for the reasons below:
1. While the Cognitive Apprenticeship theory approaches learning from a teacher perspective, the Conversational Framework puts the learner at the center of the learning process.
2. The...
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Hello Ann an welcome to the course.
Online learning is a new experience. So not everything is clear, because there are no fixed rules that everyone should follow literally.I think this unprecedented experience requires that teachers be more resourceful and creative.
With a well prepared and highly engaging lesson a teacher won't have to check...
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Hello everyone and welcome back!
It is nice to see experienced teachers acting with such enthusiasm an feeling happy to collaborate with their colleagues.
I think this course is enriching academically and socially. We have all improved our ways of teaching through this course and through sharing expertise. But above all, we have enlarged our...
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Leah Untisz-Sly
A study group can be formed virtually. I think we are no longer bound by territorial spaces.
Try to use WhatsApp or Slack for example, to start a study group. You can use this opportunity to start a group and invite teachers with whom you share something.
Think for example of the level of students you teach and look for colleagues and related...
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@ElidaQuiroga I agree with you. Now we are trying different digital tools and platforms.
I think with practice we become familiar with these tools and be able to chose the best. Because it is only the teacher who can decide what he wants to do with a specific tool.
At this point everyone of us will be able to decide which tool works better for each...
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Marlene Acevedo
@MarleneAcevedo if you have not taken a decision about online learning you'd better take it now because the world does not move backward.
Traditional learning will be obsolete whether with or without Corona. We have just started to turn the internet into a really beneficial invention into our lives. With time unusual things become the norm. We are humans...
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@MortenHoyer classroom discussion needs careful planning on the part of the instructor. These are some of the 'tricks' I use generally.
1. I prepare good questions and set the stage for engaging conversations. If I teach online I choose a tool that students are familiar with. If the discussion is asynchronous I allow multimedia contributions. Students can...
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@AntonBorovikov I agree with you that we need a systematic guide to refer to in online teaching.
In terms of teaching the Conversational Framework stands as a solid framework that can standardize learning methods.
In terms of course design, the Learning Designer is a referential tool that helps teachers follow the same designs and exchange ideas on how...
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@VikkiG thank you for raising the issue of how teachers keep their students engaged.
Many of us face this challenge in f2f teaching and we use different techniques to deal with the challenges.
The challenges in online teaching are more pressing. The teacher has less control over students.
This course offers a variety of theoretical and practical...
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@MadeleineJeanPerez thank you for expressing your worries.
The course is well designed to provide learners with:
1. Concepts: these are provided using different teaching techniques and different media (videos, PDF& Word files, web links). You may find many of them in the "downloads" section.
2. Practice such as quizzes and assignments.
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Hello Grishma!
To set up a successful learning strategy, three conditions must be met. First the teacher should be fully aware of how to use the tool to reach the intended course objectives. Second, the learning environment should be well-equipped with the right technologies. Third, the student should also be tech-savy.
To make your students work...
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Fatma Fattoumi replied to Sally Sonnex
Hello Sally! While staying in the hotel I suggest you use the following link to learn how to set up a learning community.
It is a self-study module. I hope you will find it helpful for you and your colleagues.
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@JanineKelley Thank you for sharing your experience with us and for mentioning 4MAT. I agree with Diana that the Conversational Framework differs in clearly presenting the roles played by teachers and learners. This, I think, is very helpful for educators.
Concerning Internet connection I assure you that the digital divide is universal. You can try the ... -
Hello Joyce!
Welcome to the BOLD course. In the next steps we will be sharing our experiences before and after attending this course.
You will see that it has made the difference for many of us.
You are free to share your own experiences and worries. We are here colleagues from different cultural backgrounds trying to create a united and cooperative... -
Thank you Blessy. Our interaction was very enriching.
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Thank you Lucie we also enjoyed working with you.
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Hi Irna! Nice to see parents sharing us this responsibility. Teaching students at difficult times is challenging for all of us.
However, I believe that parents are teachers by nature.
Having parents who are interested in sharing teachers this responsibility is really amazing.
My advice to you is make sure that this course reaches your son's...
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Hi Catherine!
I advise you to set clear objectives for the activities you ask your students to do.If you assign an activity make sure your students understand why it is important to do it.
You will find extra helpful information on the following sections of this course.
1. Section 2.9: it helps you how to motivate your students.
2. Section 2.10:...
