March 2020 – Supercarry Ziqiaoliu

SHOWCASE

One of most memorable online learning experiences for me is my Korean learning. I was interested in Korean celebrities and K-pop when I was in grade 9. I tried to learn Korean by myself in my summer vacation. I found an awesome website called Hujiang wangxiao.

This website mainly provides language learning, and is split into different levels according to the difficulty of the course and the needs of learners. For example, some courses are mainly provided for enthusiasts like me at that time who is interested in this language, they only need to master simple everyday language. There is also some course for students who want to go abroad. They are here to pass the test of IELTS or TOEFL, which is relatively difficult. As well as business English course and so on for those people with multinational business.

I chose a two-month elementary Korean online course. First of all, as long as you registered in the course, you will get a complete schedule, this schedule recorded the time, content of every single class. During my study, my teacher used lots of popular Korean music and TV series in order to assist us. According to the media richness concept in the article, a wide variety media using can help students learn and understand knowledge more effectively. As I learning Korean, those music and videos bring fun to boring language learning, this makes it easy for me to keep concentrating. And those complex words become easier to remember the lyrics and dialogue between the actors.

Humanization of online learning means learners are not isolation. They can connect with each other and communicate and exchange ideas from others. In my Korean learning experience, I interact with my classmates very often, because it was a live class, all of us can make questions during class, sometimes our teacher would stop and then answer it, sometimes students who know the answer would help them directly. It is worth mentioning that at the end of our course, teacher separated us into different groups, as a group we pick a TV series we like, and then dub it by ourselves. That was extremely funny.

In terms of grading, I always had a little quiz at the end of class, I would see how did I do. The question I made the mistake would show up at my next quiz, until I choose the correct answer. Some students would feel uncomfortable with the rank, they may feel stressed. My teacher chooses to rank but not show all the members, she only shows the first three students who did better in the quiz. This is a very effective method, not only did not hurt anyone, but also praised the outstanding students and encouraged others to work harder.

Overall, my Korean online learning experience is great, my teacher uses various beneficial teaching techniques. That’s wonderful.

HuJiang Wangxiao had fully met the need for variety kinds of learner. This proves a very important concept that I have gained in recent weeks, which is individuals have different preferences of learning. For example, I personally prefer flexible course schedule, I don’t always have time to visit the website every single day, so what I pursue is that I can arrange my own time and my study results will not be affected.

Another important idea I learned in the last few weeks is the importance of access to certain learning resources. HuJiang WangXiao made web design super simple, the users can easily find what they want, as well as the teachers posted all the course resources right under the course button. Students won’t waste their time to look at the resources they need.

These two advantages of HuJiang WangXiao make it develops freaking well and being very popular in all ages.

At the same time, I think Hujiang has something can improve. The purpose of education is to support learners to reach their potentials. For now, Hujiang is more value how much benefit they can earn, instead of care about their students and learning outcomes. I suggest the Hujiang can vary their teaching form in more ways. Let their students really love the language they are learning, and let them dig their potential in this field. For instants, they can organize their students to play a small drama in their new language, encourage students to use the new language as much as they can. If they continue only care about the consequences of the after-class quiz, they can not really help the student.

References:

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https://images.app.goo.gl/BSu8NxyjpVJ1U9WU6

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Fourth Reflection

By reading the materials from these two weeks, the three most important concepts I think are individuals have different preferences of learning, the purpose of education is to support learners to reaching their potentials and the importance of access certain learning resources

People have their own preferences. Some people like to use a computer to work with a cup of coffee while sitting in a sunny place during the day, while some people like to study by reading the textbook and other materials while listening to music at night. Some people take notes with a computer or tablet in class, while others rely on pens and notebooks. Therefore, flexibility of learning forms can meet the needs of learners to the greatest extent.

The purpose of education is to support learners to reaching their potentials, instead of sitting in the classroom, receiving the knowledge passed by the teacher, trying hard to get an A. The most fundamental purpose of education is to allow children to find the areas where they are most interested, so that they can have a future life which is rich of fun and meaningful.

Some tutors have made learning materials very difficult to find. For example, a professor of mine asked us to read a book that is not provided on the market, and even e-books were not found, but he made us write an essay after reading. This not only fails to make students understand the knowledge, but also discourages students from learning.

What makes me most incomprehensible is the advice apply whether you can create curriculum resources for preschoolers, graduate curriculum or lifelong learning resources. I do not accept. Differences in age and identity lead to differences in understanding of materials. Children can learn from educational cartoons, but students like graduate students still have to learn through more authoritative materials.

Universal design is a good world trend, and more and more resources are beginning to take this form, allowing more people to participate, but lack of interaction between these participants In addition to translating resources into different languages to serve learners in different countries, maybe we can establish a channel so that learners in different countries can connect with each other and share their understanding and learning results with each other.

References：

https://images.app.goo.gl/n6tjQFAMPpFUKUZYA

https://images.app.goo.gl/CxiCS3GLncgCweYh8

https://images.app.goo.gl/MkyXzE9bGGzpW95d9

Third Reflection

Online learning experience

I chose a two-month elementary Korean online course. First of all, as long as you registered in the course, you will get a complete schedule, this schedule recorded the time, content of every single class. During my study, my teacher used lots of popular Korean music and TV series in order to assist us. According to the media richness concept in the article, a wide variety media using can help students learn and understand knowledge more effectively. As I learning Korean, those music and videos bring fun to boring language learning, this makes it easy for me to keep concentrating. And those complex words become easier to remember the lyrics and dialogue between the actors.

Humanization of online learning means learners are not isolation. They can connect with each other and communicate and exchange ideas from others. In my Korean learning experience, I interact with my classmates very often, because it was a live class, all of us can make questions during class, sometimes our teacher would stop and then answer it, sometimes students who know the answer would help them directly. It is worth mentioning that at the end of our course, teacher separated us into different groups, as a group we pick a TV series we like, and then dub it by ourselves. That was extremely funny.

In terms of grading, I always had a little quiz at the end of class, I would see how did I do. The question I made the mistake would show up at my next quiz, until I choose the correct answer. Some students would feel uncomfortable with the rank, they may feel stressed. My teacher chooses to rank but not show all the members, she only shows the first three students who did better in the quiz. This is a very effective method, not only did not hurt anyone, but also praised the outstanding students and encouraged others to work harder.

Overall, my Korean online learning experience is great, my teacher uses various beneficial teaching techniques. That’s wonderful.

REFERENCE

https://images.app.goo.gl/2JmpmUhnmHuMAUbG7

https://images.app.goo.gl/uWsFiGCfkrU3ajTC7