Comic strip and peer collaboration 4.2.4 Reflection

Lesson 4.2.3 was quite interesting. I had never dreamed of forming and owning any cartoon works. I always see it it News papers and magazines but I have ended up forming one.

This lesson introduced me to many comical slangs and jargons, some of which mean different things to different people. And I have come to discover why my students' essays are deteriorating greatly as they are full of abstract abbreviations and slangs.

I have ever collaborated on line but not as it was in this case.

The challenges of using a comic strip is that;

• It consume a lot of time to produce.
• It limits the expressions and the more elaborative work pieces.
• It is more easier to be mis-interpreted by some students.
• It is addictive because if at one time a teacher teaches without it, students get bored and may not understand.
• It is mainly visual and can not easily be used without a projector and screen.
• The visually impaired may miss out.
• All the work must be digitized

  

The potential it holds is that:

It is a tool for easy understanding of abstract concepts and topics.

It kill boredom to some students.

It save space and time.

It is self explanatory to the learners.

It improves the computer skills of both the teacher and the students.

A changing education landscape 4.1.4

• I have observed and learned that modern teachers need to know that learners have a divergent mind when it comes to the use of technology. It remains the duty of the teacher to guide his learners in order to become responsible digital citizens.
• This module shows how poisonous the Internet can be to society and can create renegades instead of useful professionals. The Internet is portrayed as a tool to disseminate harmful information to the public. The most interesting of all is that students only or more often look for where they can cause danger in order to express their notoriety.
• Teacher need to put monitoring means within the school technology structure in order to monitor the reckless learners. Also to relentlessly talk to student to be good digital citizens. Use of Wordles can make students’ write-ups interesting and boost up their studies instead of misusing the various media tools at their disposal.
• Guidance and mentoring is as well vital to the learners. Some learners went to school because their parents wanted them to be at school. Such learners are the ones who may think in future that going through a university is enough no matter what they learned from there; such learners can never have a divergent thinking and would find it too difficult to fit in the modern challenging world which demands for creativity as opposed to the era of the industrial revolution when one would only do a job that he studied and qualified for. Education and technology requires teachers to prepare learners to be ‘Donkeys of all walks’.