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When students face the transition from traditional classroom learning to online learning, they may experience a bit of shock. On the surface, the two learning methods appear to be comparable, but when you try online learning for yourself, you’ll notice that it requires a different set of abilities than traditional classroom learning. The more visual and ‘live demo’ your course can be when it comes to practical training or teaching learners new skills, the better. People learn in a variety of methods, including visual, aural, and kinesthetic. When delivering knowledge online, you must ensure that all types of learners are able to participate in your lessons. In online teaching, there are four different techniques to teach a practical skill.
In online teaching, there are four different techniques to teach a practical skill:
1. Make your presentation as visual as possible
- The more visual and ‘live demo’ your course can be when it comes to practical training or teaching learners new skills, the better. People learn in a variety of methods, including visual, aural, and kinesthetic. When delivering knowledge online, you must ensure that all types of learners are able to participate in your lessons. Along with a film displaying a real-life demonstration of the skill in a context or location as close to the learner’s actual work as possible, visual diagrams, animations, and dot-pointing your material can all help.
- Consider a normal cooking show in which the camera gets up and close with the cuisine as it is prepared step-by-step. The chances of success are substantially higher when the brain can see how something is done before doing it on its own, rather than merely reading or hearing about it.
2. Get in front of the camera.
- Obtain physical footage of yourself, your trainers, or your subject matter specialists. People like people, and allowing your students to see who is speaking to them can greatly improve their engagement, retention, and completion rates. In the e-learning industry, this is referred to as a “talking head” video.
- If you use this strategy, your course doesn’t have to be all talking heads. Hand demos, voice-over films, and even animation movies can be effective if the information clearly explains what has to be done in the proper stages and is contextualized as much as possible to the learners’ actual working environment.
3. The ‘DEDICT’ Teaching Method
The DEDICT Method is a wonderful step–by–step technique to follow when teaching learners a new skill or experiment, whether in person or online. It will make your online teaching entertaining and impactful. This kind of instruction is extremely beneficial to anyone learning a new skill or science experiment. The closer you come to do this on camera or through a Screencast, the better and more interesting your course will be.
Virtual lab software
Students, particularly those preparing for board examinations, have been losing out on practical science courses as schools stay closed because of the covid 19 pandemics. Virtual laboratories, which are available online, are assisting students, as well as professors, in covering these topics.
OLabs
While there is virtual lab software available for students and institutions to purchase and use, CBSE schools and some state board students prefer to use the OLabs programme, which is financed by the Ministry of Education and Information Technology.
In OLabs the experiments can be accessed at any time and from any location, removing the time limits that come with just having access to the actual lab for a certain amount of time, so you can learn them any time.
- Content that is matched with NCERT/CBSE and State Board Syllabus is one of the features.
- Labs in physics, chemistry, and biology for students in grades 9 through 12. Lessons in English and Maths for students in grades 9 and 10.
- Simulations, animations, and lab videos that are interactive.
- The experiment’s concepts and comprehension.
- Individualized practice in all areas of experimentation, as well as the capacity to perform, record, and learn experiments – anywhere, anytime.
Youtube Channels
There are many channels on youtube which provide demonstrations regarding Science practical examinations.
Also read: Practising Questions with the help of Videos
FAQs
Ques1. What should I do to prepare for a science practical exam, conducted online?
Ans1. Practical studying for science
- Examine all of the practicals you’ve completed.
- Do not study in the same way as you would for written papers.
- Revise the theories to help you remember the keywords.
- Make a mental note of the format for the Planning question
- Make a list of all the potential causes of error for each experiment.
Ques.2. Is it possible to learn practical skills online?
Ans.2. Vocational training is the practice of teaching practical skills over the internet. The transmission of practical or technical hands-on knowledge is one of the most difficult aspects of learning when moving sessions online.
Ques.3. How can I use the internet to teach science experiments?
Ans.3.We can use the internet to teach science experiments:
- Demonstrate science in a virtual environment.
- Collect simple science experiments that you can do at home.
- Take virtual field trips in science.
- To supplement your teaching, use digital scientific readers.
- Include educational and entertaining science videos and websites.
Quest.4. Is it possible to do science labs online?
Ans.4. Virtual lab tools focused on scientific and maths themes include Labster, Visible Body, and CloudLabs. “Virtual labs allow students to go through real-life case stories, engage with lab equipment, run experiments, and learn using theory and exam questions,” according to Labster.
Ques5. What are the drawbacks of virtual laboratories?
Ans.5. The most significant disadvantage of virtual labs is that they are removed from the reality of the lab, which may already have been removed from the reality of biology by fixation, staining, and thin sectioning (to name just a few of the technologies for the preparation of lab specimens).
