E-Learning in STREaM

STREaM Tutoring offers an Interdisciplinary approach to instruction: Science-Technology-Reading-Engineering-and-Mathematics academic fields interact with and impact each other in ways that must inform instruction. At STREaM we  utilize instructional approaches that advocate a strong knowledge base and understanding of “how people learn” and how they transfer that learning from one domain to the next.

In order to meet the academic needs of 21st Century students, STREaM is moving towards using a 100% online teaching and learning platform. We have incorporated a Course Management System (CMS) that is a 21st century, student-centered, standards-aligned teaching and learning platform integrated with an Interactive Whiteboard. The Interactive Whiteboard is equipped with audio and video, which will record all lessons for later review by students as well as tutors.

After all educational psychologists, like Lev Vygotsky have stated:

• “The ideal role of the teacher is that of providing scaffolding (collaborative dialogue) to assist students on tasks within their zones of proximal development.”
• “The teacher has the collaborative ‘task of guiding and directing the child’s activity’.”
• It is important to note that the teacher does not control the class with rule and structure; rather, the teacher collaborates with the students and provides support and direction.

Vygotsky writes:

“…In this sense, education in every country and in every epoch has always been social in nature. Indeed, by its very essence it could hardly exist as anti-social in anyway. Both in the seminary and in the old high school, in the military schools and in the schools for the daughters of the nobility … it was never the teacher or the tutor who did the teaching, but the particular social environment in the school which was created for each individual instance.”

References:

1. Richard Hamilton and Elizabeth Ghatala, Learning and Instruction (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994), 277.
2. L. S. Vygotsky, Pedagogicheskaia psikhologiia [Pedagogical psychology], 2^nd Ed. (Moscow: Pedagogika, 1991), 118.
3. Richard Hamilton and Elizabeth Ghatala, Learning and Instruction (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994), 277.
4. L.S. Vygotsky, Educational Psychology, (St. Lucie Press, Florida, 1997), 47.

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