So, obviously the title is a little dramatic, but it got you here. 😉 In this post, I will discuss why it is right to teach online and use technology to our advantage.
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Wider Audience
The careful balance of home comforts and outside adventure is best met through working online with people from different places. Click To Tweet
The world is only getting smaller.
Teaching online allows you to reach a much wider audience — kids in Korea, college students in Canada, retirees in Romania, and so on.
This keeps the adventure alive in teaching but also in your life.
Meeting and interacting with people of different backgrounds can be very enlightening and rewarding.
On the other hand, going away from home, even just through a computer, can also help you appreciate your own home more.
The careful balance of home comforts and outside adventure is best met through working online with people from different places.
Portability
I went into online teaching for the portability.
I wanted to be able to travel and keep my own schedule while still teaching.
Working online gives you freedom through portability.
This does not mean you need to live in another country, like I did in Russia, but you can travel with your work.
You can take a week at a B&B or visit your sick aunt, but not sacrifice your job or paycheck.
Convenience
You appreciate this convenience most when the weather is bad.
Snow is on the ground and it is way below freezing, but I sit in my warm home office with no intention of leaving the house.
Convenience comes in other forms.
You are always in touch with your students and files through Skype and cloud storage.
So many times, my students have written me while I am at the store or about to go to a movie.
I can pull up their homework on my phone and type a reply immediately.
Teaching online takes the barriers and hardships away from getting to the students themselves.
Digital Resources
Learning goes from presentation to interaction with live feedback. Click To Tweet
I could write a whole blogpost just on this.
Oh wait, I did!
Here, I just want to say that technology allows you to have live feedback.
In a classroom, you can present something and the students can work on projects, but online teaching can go a step further.
Everyone can share a board/canvas.
We can work on the same Google Doc or draw on the same digital board.
Learning goes from presentation to interaction with live feedback.
It is an exciting and fun way to learn.
Appeal to the Modern Child
By teaching online you meet the student in a modern arena, in which they are already comfortable. Click To Tweet
It is undeniable the world is becoming more digital and technological.
Today’s kids know nothing else but a world filled with technology.
By teaching online you meet the student in a modern arena, in which they are already comfortable.
Taking their technological knowledge and showing them how they can use it to learn better will give them modern skills for the modern world.
Technology used beneficially and responsibly is our gift to young students today. How better to do that than through teaching online.
This is by no means the end of the conversation.
Here I just touched briefly on each header.
In the future, I would like to take each of these in their turn in order to delve deeper.
This is an important conversation for me to have with you because I am an online tutor.
I know that teaching online is one of the best mediums to connect with students and get the results they want and need.
Reap the benefits today and book a mini-lesson with me!
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