Most recent public comments by Jessica Singer https://nowcomment.com/users/147504 https://nowcomment.com/documents/377143?scroll_to=3328570 https://nowcomment.com/documents/377143?scroll_to=3328570 In my personal journey with online teaching and learning I can remember the intense frustration of emergency remote teaching (ERT). Particularly being an art teacher, this proved to be a daunting task as I did not know of what materials students had at home and by what means they could work on/complete assignments. I feel as though with all things, it takes time to understand and adapt to different intricacies when it comes to online teaching/learning. I would say the distinction between ERT and online learning is that one was more or less thrusted upon the academic and learner where as online learning has flexibility for growth without the intense pressure of creating lessons to meet constricted timelines (in my experience). Also, pulling in from the previous reading from the History and State of Distance Education, studies have shown the positive data to asynchronous learning vs synchronous learning in a distance education context. When I was in ERT during the pandemic, students were expected to meet via zoom for specific times during the day which proved to be stressful and unobtainable. Moreover, distance education is more conducive to adult learners then younger learners. As I was working with children 5-13 years of age during the pandemic, they did not have the same capacity for online learning as an adult learner would. Now, if they had the time and resources before being thrust into an emergency response form of learning, like that of online learning, I think the data and completion of assignments would have been very different. Although the pandemic was a difficult time in adapting to a ERT way of working, I do feel as though it pushed me to find new ways of using technology within my art pedagogy which I might not have done had COVID not taken place. Sun, 07 Jul 2024 09:36:20 -0400