Saturday, March 19, 2011
Technology Integration
As a teacher of the future generation I can visualize a school where students make available learning content for their peers. I would take pleasure in being a part of a school learning process reversal, where the homework is watching a video lesson on a topic (produced by another student) and the class work is where the student applies the learning content under the supervision of the teacher. In this situation, students are content creators and contributors to the learning process, taking ownership of their learning while providing learning tools for others and participating in a joint learning process. This would have to be a place where teachers are not the only ones who have access to computers and technology and where teachers are not only the dispensers of knowledge, but rather they are guides, and facilitators of the learning process. Technology is in the hands of students with access to Web 2.0 tools and they have the background training to use it wisely and safely .Some apparatus that make this type of situation possible are laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, webcams, iPods, and microphones along with students who are exposed to all these resources at a young age. Students and teachers need to create blogs, wikis, mind mapping resources and online storage to keep and gain instant access to their information. This will also help students to easily carry their work from one grade level to another.
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You describe an edtechutopia very well . . . I really do not expect that level universally until the Digital Immigrants have retired and the teachers are all Digital Natives and the same applies to the policy makers and those who dictate the budgets.
ReplyDeleteYou made some wonderful points about technology and the future within the classrooms. I do feel that we have all gained wonderful knowledge from our master's program to teach our future students Web 2.0 techology resources. I do wonder about other teachers who are not as comfortable using techology and what their classrooms will look like several years from now.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree, not being a teacher I have learned so much to help our students from a health standpoint. I feel so many classes we have taken should be required for existing teachers to move them into the digital age so they can keep up with their students and keep their students engaged and preparing for the future.
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