Connect the classroom with the virtual world.

When people hear that learners is sitting with their phones in the classroom working on their devices the first thing that they would think is what is the learner learning in the classroom? As they state in the article the learners are busy on Facebook or Twitter. What is still unknown out there is that social media is connecting with the classroom. Social media has turned into a resource in the classroom. It is giving the shy introvert learner the chance to raise their voice and give their opinion. If they are shy and don’t want to engage in the classroom they can do so on social media. social media is seen as an  alternative way to communicate. In the articles I came across useful applications that I can use for my curriculum studies which is English and Life orientation.

One of the application they talked about in the article was Remind. I saw this app as an ideal tool to inform the learners about their homework or their prescribed readings that they have to do for English. 

This year I was introduced to  twitter I always  knew there was an app. Twitter but I did not know what it was used for or even how it worked until this year. It opened my eyes to see what I can do with it in my curriculum studies. With Twitter I can share some of the ideas that I get online directly onto twitter thus the learners can just follow the link to read up on a particular topic. The learners can engage with me with the work via twitter and ask questions using a hashtag therefore all of the students in the English class grade 9  for instance can see the questions and answers and it might help them as well.Twitter gives us a platform to interact with the work through the virtual world. 

Blog: One of my curriculum studies is Life Orientation and one of the outcomes is careers. The learners can use the blog to write about their experience as they do job shadowing or even if they have to do research about their career they can blog about it and people can give their input on the learners blog. The learners can connect their twitter account with the blog and interact with the virtual world. 

Therefore I would say it is a good concept to connect the classroom with the virtual world.