WeChat in Education
Instructional Strategies
Use group chat to promote communication between teachers, students and parents.
Teachers can create class group with WeChat to share useful learning materials. Students can create different team group. They could discuss in the group by text, audio and video messages. It facilitated the emotional communication with each other. Parents also can create a group. It is convenient to communicate with teachers and other parents and get the notification and announcements from school.
Use Official Accounts to widen students' vision and increase students' interersts
Teachers can create teaching official accounts and students can follow it to get learning resources. Students also can add different official accounts which they are interested in. For instance, students search Education in the search box, there will be a lot of official accounts about education. Then, students can focus on one of the official accounts, which they are interested in. Students can get all the useful resources in the official accounts.Teachers also can recommend some useful official accounts to students.
Use group chat and Moments to have Micro Learning Resource and falicitate Flipped Classroom
Teachers can use group chat or Moments publish preview tasks and learning methods with video. Students can get through the group or Moments learning content in advance to make a preview, so that students learn the knowledge better. WeChat Can further promote the flipped classroom.
Use video chat and voice chat to have group discussion
Students can use WeChat to have a efficient group discussion. after create group. Students can have voice call or video call in group chat with the selected students. At the same time, students also can send text message and video message to communicate with each other. They also can invite teacher into the group to facilitate the timely detection of students learning problems. Teachers can appropriate answer the problem of learning.
Use Moments and Favorites to store, display and share works
The "Moments" is like a personal display platform. Students can post their own learning works. Teachers and students can comment and give advises. The Moment has a function of sharing, teachers through the Moments to share benefit learning resources, and students can read it and collect it to their Favorite to view at any time.