Teaching Children Online
A Conversation-based Approach
Carla Meskill author Natasha Anthony author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Multilingual Matters
Published:20th Nov '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Textbook providing high school teachers with the knowledge to become successful online educators
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators in mind.
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators in mind. Meskill and Anthony offer a wealth of examples of what successful online teaching looks like, and provide a rich source of practical, conversation-based strategies for optimizing online learning. This book will inspire anyone teaching or planning to teach fully online, or in a blended or hybrid format, by demonstrating how well constructed online conversations constitute powerful teaching.
Providing a much-needed framework for a conversation-based approach to teaching and learning, this book is a resource-filled guide emphasizing the use of information and communication technology to promote sound learning. Embedded in the strategies is encouragement for communication, reflection, and growth. The content and techniques contained in Teaching Children Online are elements all teachers and instructional designers need in their tool box.
* Zane Berge, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA *This book provides novice and seasoned online teachers with a detailed view of the opportunities for excellence in online teaching and learning. It identifies the importance of moving beyond online interaction to online instructional conversations, leading to both knowledge/skill advancement and individual learner development.
* Martha Cleveland-Innes, Athabasca University, Canada; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SwedISBN: 9781788922005
Dimensions: 245mm x 174mm x 10mm
Weight: 370g
200 pages