Reflective Teaching and/or Learning in the Online Environment -Signe Larson

As I was searching for a topic on in Reflective Teaching and/or Learning in the Online Environment I found an interesting PowerPoint that was done by Robert S. Williams. Robert Williams talks about a class that was similar to this one in that it had to do with intergrading technologies into teaching. He states that reflection is “thinking about something in a powerful way.” He believed that teaching was in the same system as learning. He believed that a good teacher should actually be learning as they teach which i believe to be very true. Also reflection can basically happen anywhere, not just in the classroom. He believes that instead of teaching you should more guides the students learning. He did explain how ever that it really got deep into emotions therefore hurt peoples feelings.

www1.aucegypt.edu/faculty/rwilliams/reflective_teaching.ppt

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Reflective Learning by Stephen Hardy

"Research indicates that critically reflective learning provides students with an opportunity to evaluate concepts learned and apply them to their experiences, contemplating its affect on future learning." states Kelly Burning in an article on here online journal (http://www.itdl.org/Journal/May_05/article03.htm). In this article Kelly deals with how online teaching that is reflective can fuel learning. The elements that need to be involved are student interaction and feedback. Kelly teaches how to apply reflective teaching to a real online environment. Some of the key things to create and apply were to provide general knowledge, usability and functionality, developing a learning community, and to incorporate learning outcomes. One of the challenges she discussed in the article was that in an online environment students lack face to face communication. The solution she provided was, Since students in the online platform work independently through the computer technology medium, the instructor needed to create a way to promote interaction among students similar to group learning in the face-to face course. The instructor also needed to create critical thinking exercises in which course concepts were reinforced but that students could also relate to." This article seemed to be a great introduction to, and a tool for, creating reflective teaching and learning in an online environment.

This article can be found at http://www.itdl.org/Journal/May_05/article03.htm

Reflective Teaching in an Online Environment by Valerie Schulz

In a powerpoint presentation by Robert S. Williams, found at www1.aucegypt.edu/faculty/rwilliams/reflective_teaching.ppt, (which was also the first link on google.com once I typed in Reflective Teaching and/or Learning in the Online Environment) the author describes a course in which he taught, titled Learning and Teaching Online. He described his role as being "the guiding member of the learning community." He found himself being very emotionally involved with his class, and once the class expressed their frustration with him, he began to reflect upon his own course and teaching skills.
As a direct result, he started a reflective teaching journal so that he could reflect on the issues within the class and figure out a way to resolve the issue. The journal did help him to figure out how to resolve the issues within the class, and it enabled him to do so without taking any remarks personally. His powerpoint made his reflective teaching and keeping a journal seem very worthwhile.

Reflective Online Teaching: Erin Fountain

When I used Google to find my article on the Internet, I came across this website: http://www.springerlink.com/content/f235223203721861/fulltext.pdf [This is the PDF file because the original writing on the page was far too little to read!]

In reading this article, I learned that reflective teaching is basically a teachers own way of teaching. The author, Faridah Pawan, sums it up perfectly by saying "reflective teaching involves teachers' self-evaluation of their practical theory by means of which they subject their personal beliefs of teaching and learning as well as their teaching practice to critical analysis."

Pawan states that online distance education, such as the course we are all currently enrolled in, is a great example of reflective teaching. Dr. Simpson requires us to do weekly blog work, and reflective discussions. Through this example, we are learning a little bit more about ourselves and our beliefs about certain subjects. As future teachers, we can do a little reflective learning ourselves, along with reflective teaching. Since I want to be a first grade teacher, instead of having my students write a blog about what they have learned, I might have them do a project that helps pull all the key concepts of a lesson out, just as Dr. Simpson has us do weekly.
I believe that reflective teaching and learning are very beneficial.

Erin Fountain

Kelly Romero - Re-Submission of Video

Re-Submission of Video-Erin Fountain

Reflective Online Learning - Kelly Romero

Online Languages and Reflective Learning
Anne Irving and Cathy Pyle and Mike Thacker
http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/paper/2282

This article is about “a program of university language courses, delivered as a combination of both online and face-to-face teaching. The authors believe that the approach taken can promote learner reflection.” The approach taken in these language courses is believed to promote reflective learning for several reasons. First, because so much writing is required in online courses, aside from just assignments, learners will have an opportunity to reflect on what they have learned throughout the course. By spending a lot of time writing during the course, the learner will have plenty of opportunities for reflection during the editing process.

Another way that reflection is supported in the course is through the use of online discussion forums which provides for peer and teacher feedback, very similar to the discussion forums in the EME 2040 class. Reading this article has given me a better understanding of yet another purposeful piece of the EME 2040 class. The similarities between the language course discussed in the article and the EME 2040 course has helped me to realize the intent of some of the coursework that I have been doing all semester and how it is designed o promote reflective learning.