Friday, April 12, 2013

Teaching Style

Did you learn about your teaching style in the OR project? - Discuss your teaching strengths and weaknesses from this on blog

I learned that I like to interact with my students! To me (and constructivists), you learn best by exploring and being able to ask questions. It was difficult for me to do this project, but only because I think that teaching someone how to use Evernote is too simple. There isn't really a 'challenge' in it. I think that the app is very self explanatory, so having to type up a tutorial to tell people to "click ok" is a bit tedious for me. That being said, I think a step-by-step guide could be very beneficial for many people, especially people that are new to mobile technologies.  A digital native would probably not benefit from this tutoria, but my target wasn't a digital native, so it works. I'm not the type of learner who reads step-by-step instructions--at least not initially, so teaching that way is somewhat of a challenge to me.