Learning As A Digital Journey: Your Ticket To Successful Student Engagement
The learning process lasts for a lifetime. A person comes into life and constantly learns how to speak, walk, and socialize. Education plays a vital role in personal growth and career building, and a teacher is an instructor who plants seeds in each and every student, motivating and inspiring them for learning. For successful student engagement, the learner’s task is to absorb knowledge and experience. However, for better or worse, the cognitive process itself is not always easy and students can encounter many impediments along the way.
Every year technological progress provides a huge variety of resources for a digital learning. This diversifies, improves, and makes the educational process thrilling and engrossing. Students are transformed into travellers on a digital journey. Here are some ways a teacher may direct a student in the abundance of modern digital learning resources.
1. Personalization
Today’s students have a unique opportunity to enter a classroom virtually. This does not only save their time, but helps master learning material without being bored to death. Teachers choose an educational platform from among the many available, such as Moodle, Canvas, Latitude Learning or Schoology. Then they upload information on a subject their students need to learn, create assignments, and give feedback on them.
It is highly important for students to have clear instructions and constructive appraisal of their work so they can comprehend their strengths and work on weaknesses. And it is always wonderful for them to realize that with this kind of work each of them feels individually accountable, and if they have group assignments they can easily collaborate with their fellow students to learn from each other without worrying about being judged.
2. Motivation
The students find it extremely exciting when the learning process is interconnected with different applications and the way teachers use them while explaining new material or capturing their attention with a Snapchat or Instagram. Also, this kind of gamification helps students feel more competitive and fires up a desire to succeed. It is absolutely astonishing what a huge array of graphics, videos, and audios can be brought into the learning process. Having an exciting new assignment every time gets students hooked and boosts their productivity. One more advantage is that learners can be engaged in the learning process wherever they are and whenever they have access to the online platform.
3. Persistence
It does not really matter whether a student prefers to work individually or in a group because digital learning helps develop both types of work. Working individually, the risk of being judged by someone else lessens and student feel freer to express their thoughts/ On the other hand, teamwork helps to get feedback right away and stick to idea creation that may be valuable. In both cases, use of different digital tools helps to develop students’ persistence. Also, it is highly important for the students to understand the task in a precise way so they can accomplish it correctly, and to realize the aim of the task in terms of what this particular assignment can lead to. Then, it engages students in the learning process, thereby boosting persistence and achievement.
4. Collaboration
Digital education facilitates interaction and cooperation between students. It creates an atmosphere of collaboration under the wise guidance of teachers. They encourage the students to think and share their thoughts and ideas. The most important thing is that students have an opportunity to work on common goals and learn how to reach those goals by taking into consideration the various perspectives of other people. With this, students acquire confidence in expressing themselves as well as the ability to compromise. Thus, their knowledge becomes practical and students can apply it even after graduation, which is in fact the main goal of any learning process.
To start a brainstorm of ideas, learners can use Popplet. And then, such resources as Sway help learners express themselves further by adding some zest to their presentations. No matter how brilliant students’ work may be, they should always be unique. “Nowadays the work of the university teachers is made significantly easier thanks to our plagiarism checker that enables them to detect cheaters and force students to create unique masterpieces”, says Anastasia Parokha, CEO of Unplag. The sound teacher’s approach fosters in students a desire to create, develop, and grow. This encourages students to explore new horizons and could even lead to some of them becoming great inventors like some of these people.
Summing It All Up
Thinking of learning as a journey, one may find many similarities such as various impediments, crossroads, and directions. In order to achieve successful student engagement, i.e. make digital learning successful, there must always be a teacher who acts as a guide for students, who can encourage and point them in the right direction. At the same time, the digital world today offers lots of tools that are so much fun and make the learning process engaging and inspiring. Digital learning becomes a lifelong process due to the invaluable knowledge and experience it provides. Are you ready to set off on a journey?