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Academic Websites and Interactive Worksheets

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Academic websites are large interactive platforms that present information to different types of people: namely students, teachers and parents.   They contain interactive topic related resources that act as tools to enhance learning and supplement classroom teaching.   These websites are structured to make the process of learning content and skills entertaining and attractive to the students, especially in today's technological age. They also assist teachers in becoming more naturalized digitals.   During the Covid-19 pandemic, schools across the globe switched to online learning.  Children actively engaged in online learning     As teachers' needs for digital pedagogical solutions increased, the academic website Liveworksheets.com became a widely used communication channel between students and teachers. Through this website, the interaction between these two g roups was facilitated during online learning. To adapt to online classes, interactive worksheets or liveworksheets

Digital Pedagogy: Bridging the Gap Between Digital Native Students and Digital Immigrant Teachers

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  Digital Pedagogy   i s   a relatively new academic discipline that has attracted much attention in recent years.  It entails the  ability to select technologies (tools) that will enhance teaching and learning. As shown in the diagram, it incorporates the selection of digital tools with commensurate teaching strategies that must be utilised in both onsite and online learning environments.     A primary goal of educational transformation is the use of meaningful and impactful digital tools that would enhance the teaching/learning process. Therefore, there is great value in teachers and educational leaders engaging in the process of reviewing and evaluating digital tools such as academic websites, classroom management software, academic software and productivity software to select the most effective ones that can be used by schools. Nevertheless, we are well aware that while students adapt to new and emerging technologies very quickly, simultaneously, schools, teachers, educational l

Purpose of Blog

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This blog is a component of the Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Leadership PGDEL 103 Course: Technology Leadership for Educational Leaders  It has been created to present a review and evaluation of the academic website  The blog is structured using the following parameters: Digital pedagogy and bridging the gap between digital native students and digital immigrant teachers The use of academic websites and interactive worksheets as digital pedagogical tools  A description and key features of the  Liveworksheets website The pros and cons of the website A rubric assessment and evaluation of Liveworksheets.com My personal experience as an educator using the website At the outset, I will state that over the past three years, I have been using the Liveworksheets online platform with my students.  As such, I have viewed this website primarily through the lens of a teacher.  This blog provides me with the opportunity to conduct a more in depth examination of this academic website in order