Emerging Technology That Supprts E-Learning

There is a tremendous amount of technology available that supports e-learning
For the classroom activity that I would like to implement, I have chosen the class wiki. The project design that I think would be good to model the project after is Sylvia Chard’s flexible framework. Flexible framework is a guide for project designs that emphasizes allowing the “students’ interests and curiosity drive the learning experience” (Boss & Krauss, 2007).If implemented, the class wiki would provide the students with opportunities to utilize technology, have discussions that facilitate reflection and critical thinking skills, and to delve as deeply as they would like into the material.

The class wiki could serve several purposes in the language arts classroom. First, a portion of the wiki could be dedicated to an on-line “Socratic circle” that allows the students to post questions that they have about the required texts and respond to each others‘ questions. The wiki could also be used as a continuous blog for the teacher to initiate topic-specific class discussions for the students to contribute to. It could also be used as a place for students to post samples for other students to critique and proof. Finally, there could be a section of the wiki dedicated to creative posts for students to share their writing with each other.

If the above activities are implemented using flexible framework, this will provide students to participate as little (just required reading) or as much as they want to. They can use the creative portion toshare poetry, song lyrics and creative writing, while the student Socratic circle will provide opportunities for student directed discussions. There is the added benefit that the students can access the wiki at school and home.