Running head: Creating an Online Course
Creating an Online Course
Landiwe Mkhize
Concordia University
EDCI 571
29 May
Running head: Creating an Online Course
Creating an Online Course
Landiwe Mkhize
Concordia University
EDCI 571
29 May
2016
Creating an
Online Course
Title: Is giving homework a right thing to
do?
Topics: 1. Listen to story. LISTEN and SPEAK about traditional
stories, realistic stories, personal
account, and adventures.
2. Read story, READ fictions and non-fictions,
Informational text, and transactional
texts
EXPRESSES
thoughts and feelings
GIVE personal opinion
Objectives: re-write and sequence story,
make predictions and expresses thoughts and feelings.
Audience: Learners-grade level 4-7, teachers,
and parents
Form of instruction: Reading an Viewing
Form: postcard
Form of assessment:
“Some online assessment is apt to be a close-ended
question such as multiple choice, format where you click on the answer and hit
a submit key”, (Draves, 2013, p. 61).
1.
Discussions. Short questions; short paragraphs
2.
Investigation
ISTE Standards .T
Since this is an online learning, Planning and designing
earning environments and experiences. “Teachers plan and design effective
learning environment and experiences supported by technology” (ISTE Standards
.T, 2000). In this learning student will interact with the teacher or to one
another on the website using cell phone which is the most convenience tool and
every one can easily access on it.
Social, ethical, legal, and human
issues are also an
important factor. I will draw netiquette for my students that will help
everyone to interact freely without sensitive language that will make them fear
of cyberspace or cyber bulling.
ISTE
standards .S
Basic operation and concept. “Some students demonstrate a sound
understanding of the nature and operation of technology system,” (ISTE Standards,
1998). By using technological tool like cell phones or computers, students are
engage in the word of technology. They learn new concepts and vocabulary. They
use these vocabulary to express their feelings and in communication.
Technology communication tools. ”Students use telecommunications to
collaborate publish. And interact with peers, expects, and other audiences”,(ISTE
Standards’, 2008). Students will collaborate with others share information,
interact with one another. When they have mastered the skill it will be fun and
develop their interaction spreading to among peers, parents and audience responses
Title: Is giving homework the right
thing to do?
“Let us not be content
to work and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the
right thing happened”.
-----Haraco Mann
Introduction
Consider
yourself as a scholar, or a parent, or a
teacher, you are given an opportunity to argue about giving homework to
learners, what would you say? You are going to read few extracts about some
other people views on homework at school. Maybe you did experience the problem
of learners giving some funny excuses of not doing homework. Some other
educators have decided to let the learners do homework at school because they
do not do it at home. Is it still homework? Is it still serving the purpose? You
are going to discuss about this topic giving its pros and cons.
Content
Homework is
the work that is carried by students from school to finish it at home during
their free time. Actually it is the extension of work they did at school. Many
schools, colleges, FETs, and Universities do give homework to their students. Forms
of homework vary from completion of work done, to assignments, and even
projects. The primary aim of homework is to give a parent a picture of what is
happening at school and to involve the parent in the education of his/her
child. It is confusing though when you find a student given homework of the new
work that is not yet done at school. You may ask yourself, who is going to
introduce or teach this work to student? Is it a parent? Those are one of the
things that made student and parents feel that homework is a burden and a
nuisance.
Giving
homework is good. Some people have a positive ideas debating about homework.
One said homework enhances the student’s capacity to understand the subject
better, (Debate.org n.d.). Another principal cause for giving homework is
making students to be much more aware of their learning, (Debate.org). Some people
have a negative opinion about giving homework. One student said “One of the
biggest thing that cause stress (as a student) is homework. Taking many
advanced classes, I get more than a reasonable amount of homework”, (Debate.org
n.d.). Read more about people’s debate on giving homework at www.debate.org . Actually homework is not a stress.
What stresses students is timing on giving homework and a lot amount of it.
Teachers just flood students with homework and student found them stuck in the
poll of homework instead of enjoying their free time. We sometime give homework
even during beaks (holidays). “Students need to enjoy their breaks and think
for other things of their interest” (Thoughts of teaching, 2006). Teacher
should work collaboratively when giving students homework and draw school or
grade homework time table. Do we ever think of illiterate parents when giving
students homework, worse with unclear instruction? I am teaching grade four in
an urban school. This is what I usually received, the excuses of not doing
homework. “There was no one to help me at home”. “I was afraid to travel a
kilometer to my neighbor, it was already at dawn there s no one to help me at
home”. Sometimes homework put student’s
life at risk.
References
Debate.org
(n. d.). Should schools give homework? Retrieved from www.debate,org/opinions/should-schools-give-homework
Thought of
Teaching, (2006). Homework during breaks? Retrieved from www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/01/o8/homework-during-break/
Objectives
Candidate will: Gain exposure on various opinions
about giving homework at schools. The advantages and disadvantages of homework.
Provide
additional insight about the value of giving homework and how they should make
it work to students.
Required studies
The
candidates should read the following websites;
Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework, (and Five Alternatives), John,
2011. http://www.spencerideas.org/2011/09/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-homework-and.html
The Right Way to do Math Homework (Always learn: 2013). http://blogs.psychcentral.com/always.learn/2013/the-right-way-to-do-math-homework
Homework harmful or helpful. (eduflow: 2013). https://eduflow.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/homework-hamful-or-helpful/
Assessment
Due date: 29 May 2015
Discuss
about the topic: Is giving homework a
right thing to do? And post you discussion onto a dashboard.
Instructions to candidates; After reading the required studies,
Discuss about the following questions. When answering you may give evidence
about you personal experience and give a citation to consolidate your argument.
Use proper APA citing when referring. When you are finished, post your work to
the relevant dashboard blogger.
Questions:
1. What is homework?
2. Is giving homework still of value? Discuss
about the advantages and disadvantages of giving homework.
3. If you still believe in homework,
what can be done to make it work?
4. If homework shifts, according to your
opinion what can be done instead of giving homework?
Write you
work on Word Document, copy and paste it to Discussion board and submit you
work.
Creating an
Online Course
Title: Is giving homework a right thing to
do?
Topics: 1. Listen to story. LISTEN and SPEAK about traditional
stories, realistic stories, personal
account, and adventures.
2. Read story, READ fictions and non-fictions,
Informational text, and transactional
texts
EXPRESSES
thoughts and feelings
GIVE personal opinion
Objectives: re-write and sequence story,
make predictions and expresses thoughts and feelings.
Audience: Learners-grade level 4-7, teachers,
and parents
Form of instruction: Reading an Viewing
Form: postcard
Form of assessment:
“Some online assessment is apt to be a close-ended
question such as multiple choice, format where you click on the answer and hit
a submit key”, (Draves, 2013, p. 61).
1.
Discussions. Short questions; short paragraphs
2.
Investigation
ISTE Standards .T
Since this is an online learning, Planning and designing
earning environments and experiences. “Teachers plan and design effective
learning environment and experiences supported by technology” (ISTE Standards
.T, 2000). In this learning student will interact with the teacher or to one
another on the website using cell phone which is the most convenience tool and
every one can easily access on it.
Social, ethical, legal, and human
issues are also an
important factor. I will draw netiquette for my students that will help
everyone to interact freely without sensitive language that will make them fear
of cyberspace or cyber bulling.
ISTE
standards .S
Basic operation and concept. “Some students demonstrate a sound
understanding of the nature and operation of technology system,” (ISTE Standards,
1998). By using technological tool like cell phones or computers, students are
engage in the word of technology. They learn new concepts and vocabulary. They
use these vocabulary to express their feelings and in communication.
Technology communication tools. ”Students use telecommunications to
collaborate publish. And interact with peers, expects, and other audiences”,(ISTE
Standards’, 2008). Students will collaborate with others share information,
interact with one another. When they have mastered the skill it will be fun and
develop their interaction spreading to among peers, parents and audience responses
Title: Is giving homework the right
thing to do?
“Let us not be content
to work and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the
right thing happened”.
-----Haraco Mann
Introduction
Consider
yourself as a scholar, or a parent, or a
teacher, you are given an opportunity to argue about giving homework to
learners, what would you say? You are going to read few extracts about some
other people views on homework at school. Maybe you did experience the problem
of learners giving some funny excuses of not doing homework. Some other
educators have decided to let the learners do homework at school because they
do not do it at home. Is it still homework? Is it still serving the purpose? You
are going to discuss about this topic giving its pros and cons.
Content
Homework is
the work that is carried by students from school to finish it at home during
their free time. Actually it is the extension of work they did at school. Many
schools, colleges, FETs, and Universities do give homework to their students. Forms
of homework vary from completion of work done, to assignments, and even
projects. The primary aim of homework is to give a parent a picture of what is
happening at school and to involve the parent in the education of his/her
child. It is confusing though when you find a student given homework of the new
work that is not yet done at school. You may ask yourself, who is going to
introduce or teach this work to student? Is it a parent? Those are one of the
things that made student and parents feel that homework is a burden and a
nuisance.
Giving
homework is good. Some people have a positive ideas debating about homework.
One said homework enhances the student’s capacity to understand the subject
better, (Debate.org n.d.). Another principal cause for giving homework is
making students to be much more aware of their learning, (Debate.org). Some people
have a negative opinion about giving homework. One student said “One of the
biggest thing that cause stress (as a student) is homework. Taking many
advanced classes, I get more than a reasonable amount of homework”, (Debate.org
n.d.). Read more about people’s debate on giving homework at www.debate.org . Actually homework is not a stress.
What stresses students is timing on giving homework and a lot amount of it.
Teachers just flood students with homework and student found them stuck in the
poll of homework instead of enjoying their free time. We sometime give homework
even during beaks (holidays). “Students need to enjoy their breaks and think
for other things of their interest” (Thoughts of teaching, 2006). Teacher
should work collaboratively when giving students homework and draw school or
grade homework time table. Do we ever think of illiterate parents when giving
students homework, worse with unclear instruction? I am teaching grade four in
an urban school. This is what I usually received, the excuses of not doing
homework. “There was no one to help me at home”. “I was afraid to travel a
kilometer to my neighbor, it was already at dawn there s no one to help me at
home”. Sometimes homework put student’s
life at risk.
References
Debate.org
(n. d.). Should schools give homework? Retrieved from www.debate,org/opinions/should-schools-give-homework
Thought of
Teaching, (2006). Homework during breaks? Retrieved from www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/01/o8/homework-during-break/
Objectives
Candidate will: Gain exposure on various opinions
about giving homework at schools. The advantages and disadvantages of homework.
Provide
additional insight about the value of giving homework and how they should make
it work to students.
Required studies
The
candidates should read the following websites;
Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework, (and Five Alternatives), John,
2011. http://www.spencerideas.org/2011/09/ten-reasons-to-get-rid-of-homework-and.html
The Right Way to do Math Homework (Always learn: 2013). http://blogs.psychcentral.com/always.learn/2013/the-right-way-to-do-math-homework
Homework harmful or helpful. (eduflow: 2013). https://eduflow.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/homework-hamful-or-helpful/
Assessment
Due date: 29 May 2015
Discuss
about the topic: Is giving homework a
right thing to do? And post you discussion onto a dashboard.
Instructions to candidates; After reading the required studies,
Discuss about the following questions. When answering you may give evidence
about you personal experience and give a citation to consolidate your argument.
Use proper APA citing when referring. When you are finished, post your work to
the relevant dashboard blogger.
Questions:
1. What is homework?
2. Is giving homework still of value? Discuss
about the advantages and disadvantages of giving homework.
3. If you still believe in homework,
what can be done to make it work?
4. If homework shifts, according to your
opinion what can be done instead of giving homework?
Write you
work on Word Document, copy and paste it to Discussion board and submit you
work.
