How do I use technology in my field of pedagogy?
My fields are organizational communication and business administration. Furthermore, I’m studying English philology at the moment and I have also started studying Finnish philology to increase subjects that I could teach.
Information technology is an integrated part of organizational communication and business administration studies, since students should learn basic office programmes while they are in school or university. Using Word and PowerPoint is an essential part of about every course. Moreover, students may need to be able to use publishing programmes and Photoshop in their studies. Optima platform and also Moodle are widely used in different educational institutions.
If I taught online courses, I could use technology in the same way than we are doing in the VOC studies. Online meetings could be organized by using the AC programme and course materials could be delivered via Optima or a blog. Teaching online has its challenges when you don't see students and thus don't get immediate feedback. It would be better to meet students outside of the Internet at the first lesson. If that is not possible, teacher just has to try to encourage students to be active during online sessions. Students should be guided, for example, to raise their virtual hands or use a chat window, when they want to comment something. For the assessment students should produce some individual written task, since otherwise an assessment would be difficult online.
Later, when I’ll be qualified to teach English and Finnish, I could use the same, above-mentioned technological possibilities. There exist also technologies that are aimed for language acquisition. In addition to language studios, which are a well-known solution for organizing language studies, there are also new methods like word game programmes.
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