Fullsaila4's List: Robert - Online tutorial/Lectures

• A benefit to taking online courses is that they offer flexibility to the student. This is a great option for those who already have a time commitment with family and work. Online classes will mold with your schedule—log in to your online course at a time that works best for you as opposed to having to attend a lecture at a specific time.
• Being an online student will work well for those who have the ability to self-motivate. Without a plan or some type of organization, your work will suffer in the online classroom, but if you set deadlines and prioritize your school schedule, you should see success. 
• As an online student you will still interact with instructors and peers, but it just happens through online video. With this type of learning model, you can focus more on learning independently and, frankly, classes may go quicker without the distractions of a traditional on-campus model. 

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• Specialized Degree ProgramsIn many online degree programs, students are not required to take elective classes unless required by their major. This allows students to focus on and study specifically what they need to learn for their job. For many students who want to just learn information relevant to their major, online degree programs work best, as this approach will save time and help students earn their degree faster.

• Last summer McKeone launched Autism Expressed, the first and only online learning program teaching digital literacy to students with autism and other developmental disabilities. The program is available to public and private schools, teachers, and parents. Already, thousands of students have used it.

   

  While teaching computer skills, the curriculum simultaneously helps students develop the skills taught in special education classrooms, such as communication and socialization, time and task management, and transition planning and preparation for after they leave school. 

• She says she has seen students’ social skills improve because of the program. She notices that kids have more empathy, more motivation, and have longer attention spans. She recalls several students she has taught who would get easily frustrated as a result of their low verbal abilities. "By giving them digital media and giving them their own website to identify interests, they had their own voice, and the frustration went down," she says.

   

• The highly linguistic nature of social media allows us to create and consume ideas and information unlike ever before. Much attention has been given to composing an articulate blog post and condensing our messages to 140 characters or less.
• The importance of including visual literacy instruction for our students in the classroom comes from the discovery that students gain a deeper understanding of a concept when they are encouraged and enabled to create a nonlinguistic representation of that concept. When paired with linguistic -- or text-based -- literacy, visual literacy can multiply students' ability to recall and think about what they have learned.
• It would be easy to demonize social media and each medium that it provides for human interaction. But it would be educationally valuable to embrace it, turning it into an opportunity for our students to develop an appreciation for the advanced cognitive skills they employ on a daily basis. Why not study the highly visual communication models connecting the thoughts that mean the most to them with the social networks where they live their lives?

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