COMPARISON & SYNTHESIS
Sorry about the lateness, I’m out of town and have very spotty connections. But, here is my overall take of the TELEs.
| Anchored Instruction and Jasper | SKI and WISE | LfU and MyWorld | T-GEM and Chemland | |
| Learning Approach | Use meaningful approach towards learning by helping students make meaningful connections to difficult concepts.
Scaffold students through difficult concepts, with the help of media. Student-Centered |
Inquiry based learning on web.
Builds knowledge through student- centred lessons. Interactive learning Self-paced |
Learning for use, putting purpose for the learning by identifying the use of the content.
To motivate learning by identifying the use of the content in real world situations Student-Centered |
TPCK lessons that Generate, Engage, Motivate
Lesson taught with the aid of simulators to digitally enhance learning. Student-Centered Interactive Learning |
Synthesis
From the different TELEs, we looked at, there were a few things that seems to have made up the basic recipe for successful TELEs. This list includes educators’ need to focus on creating lessons that are student-centered, have the option to be self-paced and allows for active learning through interactive interactions with the content through a technological component. Another key component noticed in the different frameworks was also the critical thinking component in the approaches. The frameworks recognize the importance of students being intrinsically motivated through their own curiosity and skills, which fuels the learning process for each student.
Technologies can help educators guide students in the right direction while not having to physically cater each lesson for each student. That said, I believe that technology can only enhance a lesson so much, but can not completely replace the teacher’s existence, and technologies will only enhance a lesson if it’s chosen correctly.