Our main drawback at the moment is the lack of computers in our lessons - even if each lab was equipped with a teacher's PC, there would be no way for students to log in to the VLE during a lesson, and booking the IT Rooms is not always possible.
Therefore, I believe that the contents of the VLE should support the students' individual learning at home, and the teacher's monitoring and assessment of a student's progress. Here are some ideas of what the VLE could include:
- Revision sheets with the highlights of each unit (possibly compiled by students?)
- Links to external sites providing support material, or interesting connections to the topic.
- Quizzes or other self-assessment material, especially at the end of a unit
- Homework assignments to be submitted online - hence testing ICT skills
- Students' self-reflection of their progress (possibly by means of a learning diary/blog)
However, I don't think it is necessary to have:
- Worksheets or questions to be done in class - unless an IT room is available
- Experiments
Any further thoughts? Over to you, pal!
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I have been viewing the Virtual Learning Environment as also a virtual teaching suite in which the teachers can have access to all the resources they need to refer to on the course as well, hence the worksheets etc.
I think that it would be useful for these to be on here so that we could refer to them and pupils could have access to them, and I think the library of worksheets is the way to do this rather than single uploads here and there.
I guess in this way the function of the VLE is to support teaching and learning.
Obviously though, this IS supposed to to be a virtual LEARNING environment and as such you are absolutely right that journals, reflection and self-assessment are the main keys to making this a useful LEARNING tool.
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