Teaching Children Online

A Conversation-based Approach

By (author) Dr. Carla Meskill, Natasha Anthony

Publication date:

20 November 2018

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

245x174mm
7x10"

ISBN-13: 9781788922012

What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher educators in mind. Meskill and Anthony offer a wealth of examples of what successful online teaching looks like, and provide a rich source of practical, conversation-based strategies for optimizing online learning. This book will inspire anyone teaching or planning to teach fully online, or in a blended or hybrid format, by demonstrating how well constructed online conversations constitute powerful teaching.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Teaching Online: A Conversational Approach

Chapter 2. Saturating and Modeling in Online Teaching

Chapter 3. Corralling Student Learning in Online Teaching

Chapter 4. Orchestrating Interactions and Scaffolding Synthetic Thinking

Chapter 5. Providing Feedback in Online Teaching

Chapter 6. Elements of Effective Online Instructional Conversations

Chapter 7. Future Directions for Online Teaching and Learning

Providing a much-needed framework for a conversation-based approach to teaching and learning, this book is a resource-filled guide emphasizing the use of information and communication technology to promote sound learning. Embedded in the strategies is encouragement for communication, reflection, and growth. The content and techniques contained in Teaching Children Online are elements all teachers and instructional designers need in their tool box.