Monday, February 24, 2020

Online platform systems used in the 21st century

How a student will use technological icons to develop fully in educational matters and beyond, including teachers, learners and parents.

Technological icons are symbols used to represent online apps. They are of most important in education because most of them are learning platforms that allows complete effective overall control of communication with users, teachers, learners and the content management. They are for example Moodle,Twitter,Dropbox,YouTube,Google,Whats App, Zoom, Facebook and many more.As student teachers, focusing more on You Tube and Google to bring clear demonstrations in the classroom and beyond is very fast and reliable.

You Tube







You Tube is a video sharing platform used to be watched videos, comedy shows and many more whereby users can watch, comment,like and subscribe to the interested channels. A student teacher can use a projector in the classroom to show the learners some You Tube videos to better illustrate complex concepts, procedures and ideas, since certain subjects can be very difficult to explain. A student can also use his Personal Computer to show the learners You Tube videos about the demonstrations of some subject  themes so that they will know how other people are carrying out different strategies worldwide. A good student teacher can record his own lesson presentations and share the videos by uploading them on You Tube so that the other school teachers will have access to them and learn new strategies for teaching in their classrooms. Furthermore a student teacher can also let the parents know about his You Tube channel so that the parents will be letting their children to watch those videos to refresh their minds on what they have done at school. Through such ways the children's education is in full support from both teachers at school and parents at home. The videos helps learners to learn from both seeing pictures and hearing which helps them with understanding.  This helps the learners concentration and leading to inclusive education through sharing learning videos online widely.

Google 






Google is a computing service that allows users to search for anything, see updates and discover more.Under Google there is Google Chrome,Gmail,Google Maps,Google Drive, and Google Photos. A student teacher can use Google search to search up for difficult words for instance from the syllabus or for any unfamiliar word that he came across with. Gmail can be used to send each other emails of educational information very fast, easy and it saves times. Furthermore, a teacher can also send emails to parents informing them about parents meetings and other academic staffs to be known by them.Google Drive can be used by the student teacher to keep and store documents of information about  school work for example learner's school activities. Google Photos can be used by both the student teacher and professional teachers to keep pictures  that has to do with learning, as in schools for instance picture stories for the lower primary learners. Both parents and teachers can communicate through emails whenever they have something to share regarding school matters.

Both You Tube and Google are very important learning platforms in education since they save time and are reliable, provided there internet access.Online platforms are a solution to the challenges that nowadays people face as they are provided with high quality education and on their own place and time. The platforms also reduce costs of the government money through buying books for the schools. Through carrying out all the above strategies, student teachers, teachers and parents both gain skills in carrying out advanced ways in improving children's early fundamental better and the 21
 century skills will be met.