Google classroom is the easiest way to blended learning and it is exactly like VLE discussion forum where the teacher can assign work to the learners, grade them and invite the students for discussion. A teacher can post a information here and let the student do assignments and read notes from here. However, in VLE discussion forum it is only accessible for teacher and students cannot post announcements and students cannot create a group here. Whereas in Google classroom, a teacher can assign a task to students individually, to a group of students or to all the students, collect for review, grade their assignments in one place but one should have a personal email address.
Through Google classroom, the teacher can see who did the work, give feedback to our students, and ask questions even out of the classroom and make announcements. It helps the teacher and students in distributing handouts, enhances student-centered learning.
Nonetheless, there are limitations of using Google classroom.
- Both the teachers and students should have personal email Id to be logged in and since most of the people do not have access to this App, so, even for the teachers, it can be confusing to use.
- Google course app does not consider the involvement of the entire learner because of economically draw backed students cannot have access to such facilities. (Students need to have access to the Internet in order to engage in Google Classroom.)
- If we encourage more of Google course learning, future is already foreseen to be a robotic learning rather than a constructive learning.
- And as to talk from the psychological point of view, there is limited interaction between learners and the teachers, thus it results in failure from the teacher's side to an emotional bond with the students. the teacher won’t be able to recognize the different learning style of the students thus leading to low quality of learning.
- Google classroom cannot be effective without the support from both teachers and students. So, I have a big doubt whether I can use it in my school in the future.
This is an example of my video tutorial for googleclassroom which I made using camtasia.
To know more about how to create google classroom you can click on the give URL.
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