Asynchronous and synchronous communication can be used in different ways and it allows you to communicate with others more convenience. For example, if you have questions or problem when doing your assignments at home, the best way to communicate with your professor is to Email your professor. You will get responds from your professor quicker than asking the question during next class meeting. Students can also use blogging to communicate and follow up the class discussion. Synchronous communication allows you to see people even if they're not at the same location. It is very convenience for having a meeting with people that's currently in another place. Synchronous communications also help people build their relationship. For instance, use Skype to communicated with your friend or family when you're on a trip to somewhere; or Skype with someone that you haven't see in a long time.
Skype in the Classroom, from York to Antarctica
This article talks about the effeteness of synchronous communication using in classroom. Students are able to talk with a scientist in Antarctica. Also the students can video chat with different people to gain knowledge without the person come to class and give a presentation.
It sounds like you see the direct benefits from technology in the ability to communicate and many different levels to many different groups. I would agree with you on this. Since the birth of the Internet technology has hyper sped up through so many new ways of learning and communicating that I probably would never have thought would be possible. I am inspired for the future.
ReplyDeleteI see that the benefits of these forms of communications out weigh the problems with it because you can do so much with these forms of communication that it allows us to see things in a new light in a way we never have before.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of benefits that's comes with the technology that we use to communicate and every day people work on fixing the negatives that come from it and I think that it does let us see everything in a different prospective and being able to connect is only going to bring us closer
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