{"id":3618,"date":"2016-09-02T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T07:06:33","slug":"e-learning-at-american-prep-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"E-Learning at American Prep International"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>E-Learning at American Prep<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>American Prep International School has positioned itself as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the trend-setting e&#8211;learning school<\/span> in Thailand. This is a major claim for a school that is barely one year old! The purpose of this blog is to elaborate somewhat on what the school means when it makes this claim.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>E-Learning is not &#8220;distance&#8221;- education<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The first point of clarification is that &#8220;e-learning&#8221; at APIS should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not be understood<\/span>&nbsp;as &#8220;distance&#8221; or &#8220;correspondence&#8221;-education. In other words, the students at American Prep do not live away from the school while pursuing their their studies by means of online- or e-learning.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>E-Learning tools at American Prep<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Teachers in the Middle School make use of e-learning tools such as Edmodo or Moodle to support their normal face-to-face classroom teaching. Certain aspects of the curriculum are &nbsp;taught using either of the above platforms and students can work independently at their own pace and place. Classroom instruction is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not replaced<\/span>, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is supplemented<\/span> with online learning outside the confines of the school building.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Laptops and E-books at American Prep<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">E-Learning at APIS further means that all middle school students have their own laptop computers and all their text-books are &#8220;e-books&#8221; rather than printed books<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Other digital tools<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">E-Learning at APIS also implies that teachers use a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wide variety of internet tools<\/span> to compliment traditional teaching. This includes: integration of YouTube, Thinglink, Digital Story Telling as well as frequent internet research, into daily teaching activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Skillful blending of many digital tools<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">From the above it is clear that e-learning at American Prep International is not a single concept or methodology but rather the <u>skillful blending<\/u> of modern e-learning tools and digital\/social media to enhance traditional teaching and thus to provide a quality education that prepares and equips young people with skills and attitudes that will help them live meaningfully and responsibly in the world of the 21st century and beyond. A practical example of this type of integration is described in the blogpost:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/2016\/09\/07\/your-school-website-as-an-e-learning-tool\/\">Your School Website as an e-Learning Tool<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-Learning at American Prep American Prep International School has positioned itself as the trend-setting e&#8211;learning school in Thailand. This is a major claim for a school that is barely one year old! The purpose of this blog is to elaborate somewhat on what the school means when it makes this claim. E-Learning is not &#8220;distance&#8221;- <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/?p=3618\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanprepschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}