Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPhbv6zT08&t=165s
The video chose shows the type of instructor and student interaction that the whole meeting is held by different speakers speaking to the learners, communicating their thoughts and ideas towards economic impact brought by Covid pandemic with learners, and at the end of the meeting answer questions from learners, which facilitate the learners’ understanding and critical thinking towards the topic through interaction. But this format does not force learners to interact with the instructor, enabling learners to study knowledge and interact in a comfortable way from their perspective.
In this case, the main way for learners to interact is firstly, taking notes from the instructor’s speech. By writing down the concluded information, learners could digest the knowledge at the first sight and the bullet points concluded also enables them to review the speech content more easily afterwards. Furthermore, another interact way is asking instructor questions based on what they taught mentioned above, and obtain more profound understanding from the instructor’s answer. By this way, learners could also get feedback from the answer by instructor, to evaluate their mastery degree of knowledge and potential misunderstanding. The technology and medium to gain feedback is the platform holding the virtual meeting, for example, Zoom.
However, this video shows one type of instructor-learner interaction and the Q&A interaction only, which could be designed and improved to include more and better interaction activities. In my opinion, the meeting could involve the instructor-initiated questions to ask learners, and learners could answer, which evaluates their mastery degree in an opposite way and also stimulates deeper critical thinking. Besides, the video could add more diverse interaction types, such as student interaction, which could be conducted in the form of online group discussion. Instructors could give out a topic, set learners into groups to discuss, and ask groups to present their discussion outcomes. With more and better interaction formats, the speech could be delivered in a much more effective way, and at the same time prompt learning.
Comment:
19 June 2023 at 12:05 am
Hi Wanqin,
Thanks for sharing your excellent post and the video! I agree that taking notes from the instructor’s notes is an effective method to absorb, digest and consolidate knowledge. During the process of taking notes, students could sort out and understand the essential concepts in their minds and summarize them on paper for further memorization. This is an excellent response method that the video could bring to the students. I felt connected with your idea when I read that you think the discussion would be a great way to develop students’ critical thinking abilities. I also mentioned this opinion in my post. I would consider that discussion involves the process of thinking deeply by students themselves and exchanging minds with others. This method only practices students’ skill of critical thinking but also involves them in open-minded communication practices.
Thanks!
Angel