Final thoughts

     After taking this course with Dr. Myint, I learnt many new strategies and techniques that are going to help me in my teaching especially in IT field.

     Knowing about how students learn better, what the environment they should be in during there learning and how to deal with individuals differences are some of the main issues facing us as teachers.

     I learn from this course how it's important to know that there are different learning styles inside the classroom, that’s going to help me to do different types of activities in my class. Also, I learnt new way to explain the projects to my students through the WebQuest, which is going to help me as a teacher and my student.

     Finally, I think this was amazing course, I benefited from it, and I like the way Dr.Myint explain the topics, he makes the lesson much easier and enjoyable.

                                                                              

Game, Simulation & Virtual Reality ( Reflection of week 8 )

     With all these improvements in many fields in technology, we can notice that the great improvements are in games.

    Nowadays, most of our students are familiar with using the internet and they spend lots of the time playing different type of games. So, as teachers we all should be aware of the impact of games on our students.

     From my experience in teaching I found that the students are interested a lot in playing different type of games and they like to discover new games always, so I tried to deliver some of my lessons as a game and it worked.

    Through my readings to the websites provided in our lecture, I searched for games that can be applied in my classroom and I found some games which will help me a lot in teaching.

Concept Maps ( Reflection of week 7 )

     A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. It is used to organize information to be presented in easy way to understand and remember.

     There are many types of mind maps such as, Sequential Map, Cyclical Map, and Hierarchical Map.

     Personally I like to use mind map in studying and teaching, because it is easy way to present the lesson by putting the main topic in the center of the map then the basic ideas, it helped me a lot as a teacher and as a student.

     Today there are some IT programs that help us a lot in drawing and presenting these maps in easy and interesting way and I think these programs will make the learning easier to deliver and the students are having fun and enjoying their time while they are learning.