E-Learning Design Dilemma
Mary Scott
July 23, 2015
Hand-on learning activity for student to learn to budget and save money.
Students will create
a grocery list. With this grocery list they will shop for grocery in the
classroom grocery. There will be coupons to use to save money on certain items.
Saving major amount of money involves using strategies like learning the value
of using coupons (Wilder, 2010). The groceries will be items cut from different
sale papers and magazines. Children are asked to bring their sale paper and
magazines from home. Here the parents will get involved in the activity. They
will help students find coupons in magazines and sale papers of different food
items. Each item will have a price tag on it. The students will be given $70.00
to shop with. Each student will have to save $10.00 for gas pay for the trip to
the grocery store. This activity is to teach students about how to budget their
money at an early age. The coupons are there to teach them to take advance of
saving (Wilder, 2010).
A blog is an
appropriate technology to use for this hand-on activity design, because a blog
can be shared with many people. They can come together sharing and saving
coupons to save big money. They blog can give alert on the deals at the grocery
store. With the use of saving coupons sometime you can get items for free.
Saving bring emotional rewards and financial benefits (Wilder, 2010).
Using a blog for a
learning tool allow inclusion and display of multimedia. Student’s response to
or discussion of outside-of-class reading that are covered during class.
Students can use the blog to present group and individual project (Hall, 2013).
Students can use of blog for a learning help to prepare students for the 21st
century. The blog can be used to be an online journal that encourages
reflection and to encourage collaboration through the sharing of links to
resources and up-to-date information (Dabbagh, (n.d).
The benefit of
blogging is that it leads students into a stronger classroom discussion (Hick,
2013). Students can voice their opinions in a deeper learning. Each time
students post a blog and reply to comments their engaging deeper learning and
thinking. Teachers can have the opportunity to see how students are thinking
and how they are communicating. Students can receive more feedback from
teachers and other peers. Teachers can get students involved in a topic before
the next class with the use of a blog post (Hick, 2013).One disadvantage of
blog using it is public and any one can comment on it. People can leave rude
and inappropriate comments on your blog. So it is difficult to find quality
blogs (Lindsay, 2015).
Hall,
M., (2013). Using Blogging as a Learning Tool. Retrieve from:
http://ii.library.jhu.edu/2013/11/27/using-blogging-as-a-learning-tool/
Hicks,
K., (2013). The Benefits of Blogging as a Learning Tool, Part 1. Retrieve/
http://gettingsmart.com/2013/12/benefits-blogging-learning-tool-part-1/
Lindsay, S., (2015). Blogging- Pros And Cons. Retrieve from:
http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/186099/blogging/blogging___pros_and_cons.html
Wilder, M. (2010, April 25). Clipping coupons helps consumers make the most
of their money. Times-News (Burlington, NC).
(Dabbagh, (n.d).Using
Blogs as a teaching and Learning. (n.d). Retrieve from:
Hall,
M., (2013). Using Blogging as a Learning Tool. Retrieve from:
http://ii.library.jhu.edu/2013/11/27/using-blogging-as-a-learning-tool/
Hicks,
K., (2013). The Benefits of Blogging as a Learning Tool, Part 1. Retrieve/
http://gettingsmart.com/2013/12/benefits-blogging-learning-tool-part-1/
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