Feed Forward

The vast abundance of educational teaching strategies never ceases to amaze me. Becoming an educator in the 21^st century, you have to be willing to try new strategies to introduce new ways for students to learn. After learning about such things as virtual reality, blogging, tutorials, RLO’s and more, it is incredible to think of what could have changed in my own education. Using these teaching strategies, it would encourage the active and authentic learning that is the main goal in nursing education.

           

              After learning about new teaching strategies, I am confident that I will use such strategies as blogging and tutorials in my future teaching strategies. After reading classmates responses, another strategy I am very interested in is VR. I think that by using VR in education, students have the opportunity to feel immersed in the environment and be able to have a 3D look into that world. There is something very interesting about that to me. Such sites as Immersive VREducation offer an online look into different worlds and experiences that could be used to give students an idea of the VR world in general.

            

               Introducing such strategies as blogging and tutorials gives students a multitude of possibilities. With Blogging, students can be actively involved in the direction that their education goes based on their own experiences and how they describe them. As an educator, to be able to review student’s blogs gives us the opportunity to see how they really feel about their own education. That is a very interesting thought to me. It’s as if it serves as an open forum into the mind of the students and that could serve to be very valuable to new educators, such as myself.

            

               With using strategies to promote active, authentic, applied and experiential learning, we are giving our students the best possibility of success in their education. This is of the utmost importance for us as educators in order to produce students who will enjoy and be engaged in their education.