In today's world almost everyone has at least one type of social media and media technologies and it has become one of the main, if not the main ways of communication between students. I will be explaining below the different communication types between teachers and students and different types of communications.
The most common communication between students and teachers is via e-mail, texts, blogs and wikis. E-mails are the most common type from my experience until recently in this class where I learned about wikis.
Going along those lines of electronic communications there are two categories. Synchronous communication which happens in real time, there is no delay; for example a phone call or face time call. Asynchronous communication involves a time delay where you can type and go back and edit and re-edit as much as possible, like an e-mail.
As a parent myself I would like to not only see the papers my child comes home with but actually see what he did during the school day and teachers having a website or blog help tremendously in that aspect. A big part of being a great teacher is knowing the student and talking with their parents to let them know how their student is doing. I think a good idea would be for a teacher to have a blog where parents could go in and see what their children's week was like, what projects they did and what they're learning in school.
Brainstorm made using bibbl.us
RESOURCES:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
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