Week 9: Technology and Learning Styles The most significant thing this week was the submission of the final draft of the Course Project. My topic for this project was on creating a course website. There were two topics for discussion this week; learning styles and technology and "Meet the FORUM editors". Frankly, the discussion on "FORUM" was not very useful. It was just limited to questions and answers about the magazine. I knew about this magazine two years ago. The only new thing I learned from this discussion was that FORUM is available online for free. The discussion on learning styles and technology was very useful though. It reminded me of the different learning styles people have. There are two approaches to learning styles; Kolb's classification and Gardner's. I am still not sure whether the two refer to the same thing or that the latter is an improvement over the earlier. However, it was very useful to read different opinions about the way the teacher can link the use of technology to this approach in teaching/learning. Specific examples were mentioned and that is what the discussion should be about. It is generally accepted that a person does not have only one learning style. In fact, it is a matter of preference or dominance that makes us say that X has this learning style/intelligence or that. Since the class will have students with different learning styles or intelligences, the teacher should vary his/her techniques and tasks in the same class or over the different classes so that he/she caters to the different learning styles of the students. In one class the teacher can design tasks and activities for two to three learning styles and in the next class other learning styles and so on. I feel sad that the course is about to end. It has become part of my daily life and I think I will feel I am missing something. This is life though and everything has to come to an end. However, I really wish, as I Naqib suggested on the social thread that the members of this course find a way to keep in touch with each other either through a yahoo or facebook group. See you soon then.

The most significant thing this week was the submission of the final draft of the Course Project. My topic for this project was on creating a course website.

There were two topics for discussion this week; learning styles and technology and "Meet the FORUM editors". Frankly, the discussion on "FORUM" was not very useful. It was just limited to questions and answers about the magazine. I knew about this magazine two years ago. The only new thing I learned from this discussion was that FORUM is available online for free.

The discussion on learning styles and technology was very useful though. It reminded me of the different learning styles people have. There are two approaches to learning styles; Kolb's classification and Gardner's. I am still not sure whether the two refer to the same thing or that the latter is an improvement over the earlier. However, it was very useful to read different opinions about the way the teacher can link the use of technology to this approach in teaching/learning. Specific examples were mentioned and that is what the discussion should be about. It is generally accepted that a person does not have only one learning style. In fact, it is a matter of preference or dominance that makes us say that X has this learning style/intelligence or that. Since the class will have students with different learning styles or intelligences, the teacher should vary his/her techniques and tasks in the same class or over the different classes so that he/she caters to the different learning styles of the students. In one class the teacher can design tasks and activities for two to three learning styles and in the next class other learning styles and so on.

I feel sad that the course is about to end. It has become part of my daily life and I think I will feel I am missing something. This is life though and everything has to come to an end. However, I really wish, as I Naqib suggested on the social thread that the members of this course find a way to keep in touch with each other either through a yahoo or facebook group.

See you soon then.