Get Your Students Hired
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Student Empowerment for Learning Success --> Ways to Promote Student Empowerment
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I find that some instructors have a feeling of insecurity when they acknowledge that they have to ask students to assist them with technology, but I think it is a great asset. For example there can be a student who barely speaks but knows technology. That would be the student any instructor would want to get technological help. By doing so would give the student to be brave, and master his/her craft.
Though I don't agree on allowing technology in class; I have seen it abused and disruptive on many levels gone wrong more so in the majority then minority. I do see the need and advantage of technology in the educational level.
Students become empowered in the classroom through repetition of communications and by working with familiar technology. Instructors should allow students to use their devices for educational learning. I promote asking why in my clinical rotation and allow the students to google the facts they need to further their education. We have a wealth of knowledge in our hands each day and learning to research for education is just part of being modern.
Each student is going. to learn differently and at heir own pace identifying each students strengths and weakness and using that to build there confidence in passing course . whether they pay attention to their peers or the instructor can reach each student in different ways without taking too much from the class
Students should be encouraged to participate in the classroom as an active learner. Active learning increases confidence and improves interacting skills.
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This course taught me that the students need to be empowered to be active learners in the class room rather than passive learners. To prevent students to use technology in the class room nowadays is close to impossible in this new system of learning / education. It is rather advisable to involve students and encourage them to explore all variety of resources to gain knowledge.
Use of technology can be very empowering for students. I plan on using it much more.
Have to be able to relate to the current generation utilizing technological tools to interest and empower them
Students will always need encourgement and need to feel valued and feel like they can be successful.
It is very hard for me to find icebreakers that don't feel cheesy and forced. I try to incorporate getting to know my students and building rapport in different ways.
Not just taking the class, but making the class! Making sure each and every student is able to showcase their individual skills, talents, experiences, growth, and knowledge leads to ownership of the learning experience. I do get to know my student's goals and career aspirations. I like to show them how relevant what they are learning is to their future success. I liked learning about the learning and growing method or building on experiences and immediately using new information as a strategy to increase student investment in the learning process.
I have struggled with students using technology during class, and i would like to see more tools developed for how to encourage productive use of technology. I tend to see students finding ways to distract themselves while taking notes on a laptop or tablet, and while I want technology to be integrated into their learning I think it should not be encouraged as the only way that they are engaged
Promoting technology use ensures students can undertake research or search for information and pursue learning.