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@Kelenoa ….yes with power failures and internet issues here in Fiji, we have to be always prepared with soft and hardcopy notes and worksheets during face to face classes…most of us tend to go back to board teaching (white or blackboard)…during online teaching at times with low bandwidth where we cant play utube videos during lessons so we have to be prepared with alternatives 
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@elafinau8572 …yes totally agree that providing video link is a good idea where students can download the videos and learn better at own pace…I usually share video link in my PowerPoint slides in each lesson
Do you think that knowledge becomes something different when represented by different media? For instance, does an animation of a mathematical function represent something different from a written or printed equation of the same function? Which is the most ‘mathematical’: the formula or the animation?
I believe that knowledge does not change when represented by different media. it is the learner’s perspective in receiving the knowledge from the media. Mathematical formula is best achieved through animation as it attracts attention of students better than just a written or printed equation due to technology use by them.
Selecting and using media for ODFL communication is a crucial activity in both synchronous and asynchronous modes of teaching. Consider your teaching and learning environment and list and discuss the media that would be most suitable for your ODFL classes.
according to this recent mode of teaching and learning, I am foremost and happy to use Viber and messenger as chat groups. I,as the class teacher of infant level, these two groups are working best at the moment since :
-99% of my parents are on the group and have access to a touchscreen mobile
-feedback given through viber to mark assessments
-group members are actively involved
-students and parents have access to the connectivity regardless of the geographical areas they are in at thye moment of this crisis.
I do agree that as teachers, we need to be prepared for both ways of teaching- providing videos for better understanding during online classes and having hardcopies as well due to the poor network for some students who cannot reach to the video sessions.
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This can be the best way for each child to access the video at own time which may have been affected by the low bandwidth of network.
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Yes knowledge becomes something else when represented by different media. different forms of media relays message in different ways therefore the real messages changes.
Animation of mathematical function represents same as printed equation of the same function. some people find printed copies as easy to answer where as some prefer animated equations.
Selecting and using media for ODFL classroom indeed its a very crucial activity. we need to consider so many factors before selecting the best method. Since students are learning from different regions, i think Moodle is the best mode of communication. students can use Moodle anytime convenient to them during the day.
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- I think knowledge can be represented in many forms. Whether it is animated or written in an equation or illustrated with an image it is still considered knowledgeable according to the audience of interested. If the audience is blind, having a recorded audio will help pass on the message to the party of interest. Similarly, if a student is deaf, animation could be an advantage.
- I think it will be very much appreciated if we have all the means of teaching to different student groups, but anyways sometimes it is not available at all and we, as educators have to provide for the students. For me, internet will be very much appreciated as it will benefit this day and age students.
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Hi
I agree with your views. During the pandemic the most effective media used by majority of teachers and students are viber. We can use viber anytime anywhere convenient to us.
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In my suggestion the best mode of communication is Viber or Moodle. In this modern world every steps we take is based on technology. Viber is mostly used for interacting and easiest method to pass important messages.
Where as Moodle is used as a safest and easiest way to engage students in learning process. Previously Moodle was only used by tertiary institutes but now It is also used in School systems.
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I agree with your view. Moodle and google classroom is a very effective tool when it comes to ODFL Classes. Before Moodle was used by tertiary students but now due to this pandemic, majority of the schools have started using Moodle and and google classroom.
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Hi Ashley
I totally agree with you.
Moodle has made teaching much easier and students can access moodle anytime anywhere using mobile, PC or laptop.
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Moodle or Viber is the most effective method of teaching and learning progress.
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Unless one is all knowing, i propose that knowledge most definitely has the potential to change when represented by different media forms. The acquisition and assimilation of ‘knowledge’ occurs via the 5 senses. As such the stimulation of each sense has the potential to change one’s ‘knowledge’. The stimulation of a particular sense in a variety of ways may also influence one’s ‘knowledge’ for e.g sound volume and duration. We all agree that the formula “is the most mathematical”, but the formula only becomes knowledge to the intended if it is understood ergo the animation can change knowledge.
For the field of medicine at present my impression is that a blended mode would be the best suitable method of delivery, leaning very heavy on the in person teaching and practical. I have found moodle and its variety of functions quite suitable for asynchronous teaching both for delivery and assessment of medical education because it allows content to available in a variety of media forms. For synchronous teaching i have only used zoom as a communications program. I have found this suitable because it has most of the functions of an in person classroom on a virtual space.
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Hi @Gurgur I agree that one’s knowledge changes as one becomes exposed to ‘superior’ ideas. With regard to facts, do you think they differ from science? And does the science change? Or does our interpretation? 
Cheers.
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Hi @sarah_1985 children definitely have different learning styles and i am aware that some Nordic countries have a very different education system to our structured one. Having said that the need for special considerations in learning also extends to adults, as well as teachers 
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Cheers.
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Greetings sir,
I strongly agree with the idea of bringing new techniques in improving the teaching and learning style where children can really learn a lot using different mediums like Viber and messenger. We as facilitators should also try and upgrade ourselves where we can give the very best to our little minds. Just want to share some ideas on an APP called SEESAW. It is a e-portfolio of a child which they can access anytime anywhere. It is more like facebook but is more confidential and only 2 parties can share (teacher and parent). In this APP, teachers can share activities which children can than finish with parents help and submit for marking. I find this APP really helpful since I finished my B.Ed practicum using SEESAW.
Thank you and looking forward for some critics.
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Hello @sheetalnarain ,
Interesting to see you post. Here in New Zealand, SeeSaw is widely used in primary schools. I prefer not to use it, but my wife and kids who interact with it seem to think it’s pretty good. But I think there are few questions we need to ask ourselves:
- who is behind SeeSaw and what is their model? How are they planning to make money?
- SeeSaw (from what I recall) has a ‘free’ with lots of restrictions on how it’s used (and these become more restrictive over time). Their model seems fairly typical of “Software-as-a-Service” products: get users of the ‘free’ offering ‘invested’ in using their system (e.g. writing their curriculum around it’s specific functionality) and then make sure those users run up against annoying limitations to the free service, which, having invested a lot, pressures them into paying for the rather expensive service that actually meets (most of) their needs… this creates real pressures on school systems with limited resources.
- where is our children’s data stored? Who has access to it? In which country’s legal jurisdiction are privacy or security related issues decided?
- the terms of use seemed relatively benign when I looked them over a year or two ago, but what happens if they exercise the right they (like all SaaS models) claim - to be able to change their terms without notice at their discretion?
- by accepting their terms, what are you indemnifying them for? Are you handing over non-exclusive copyright to them for uploaded digital artefacts like photos or essays (as Facebook’s terms stipulate)?
- if a child leaves a school, what happens to their creative works that they’ve uploaded to SeeSaw? Can they get them back? In what form? For how long? Are these potentially important works (with sentimental value in many cases) deleted?
- what happens to a school that becomes dependent on SeeSaw (as many NZ schools are!) if they are acquired by a ruthless mega tech corporation like one of the Big Five (Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) who wants to “monetise” them? or if they go out of business? or if they suddenly increase their prices by 10 x (SaaS companies often do this when their funders come calling).
There are lots of questions, and a lot of uncertainty around the answers. A better approach, in my opinion, is to avoid dependence on these technologies and encourage your education systems (at a national level, perhaps in collaboration with other similarly aligned governments) to invest in developing open source solutions for your schools to use. These can be far more responsive to your cultural and language expectations, and will almost certainly cost far less in the medium-to-long term and offer far greater stability. You’ll be in control of the software rather than a corporation in another hemisphere.
I work with the OER Foundation (I’m responsible for running this open source Discourse forum, for example) and we’re very keen to help empower some of you with an interest in technology to run these sorts of open source systems I’m describing for the benefit of your communities, so that you can remove the uncertainties that I’ve highlighted above. What’s more, perhaps a few of you will even find it fulfilling to write these sorts of systems and enrich the global software commons, just like the community responsible for Discourse (and those global communities behind Moodle and WordPress and many other open source software systems) have. All the best!
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I quite agree because the mode of delivery is very key in facilitating our lessons and delivery.
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Well even Scientific Knowledge and facts are subject to change because the Universe itself is not static so is Knowledge. But fundamentally, if such knowledge is built on limited facts, the knowledge certainly shifts in both content and context when there are more facts to suggests otherwise. For example in Economics, there is what is called the “Malthusian Demographic Theory” which was propounded by Thomas Malthus with his limited knowlegde that Europe was the only continent on Earth and the Earth was flat, etcetera, therefore population was growing geometrically from arithmetric progression, leading to hunger and starvation and all that. That was not completely true. Again, in History Textbooks, it was said that River Niger was discovered by Mungo Park but the truth is people had exixted along the banks of River Niger before Mungo Park was born. Now lets look at Democritus’ atomic theory which states that atoms are indivisible. The modern Atomic theory state that - The atoms can be divisible into subatomic particles called protons,electrons and neutrons. In essence therefore, as the world comntinue to develop epistemically with deeper facts and logic, some of what was held as knowledge is being relegated after intellectual interrogation and counterfactual. Thank you Sir.
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Hi @ashikachand …I also agree that viber and Moodle are the fastest way to reach out to the students. However, some students dont have data and/ internet which becomes a major issue in online teaching.
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