Richard Miller
Dr. Miller explained how the use of technology in the classroom is developing. He’s right about the need for developing a curriculum as how to teach the use of technology in the class. When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of the receiving of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to obtain or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons.
Also, when technology is used as a tool to support students in performing authentic tasks, the students are in the position of defining their goals, making design decisions, and evaluating their progress. With technology, academic information is amazing. Dr. Miller explained how people understanding that the ideas don’t belong to us as an individual but as a culture.
“We as educators must be in the business of sharing ideas freely” said Dr. Miller, and I agree 100%. By doing so, we not only help others, but we’re learning in the process as well. Educators should also be still in the “learning” mode also. We should never think we know too much, but be willing to learn more. My student will be able to do the Multimedia writing, because I’m preparing for it now.
Chiper
I would like to create a video that will show how two students interact on a regular day after school and also how they talk to and about the teacher. I like the creativity of the videos, because it shows how we really act as students sometimes in actual situations. I think Chiper actually had some pretty good points when talking to Dr. Strange. I go through a lot of difficulty in this class but I manage to pull most of it off. Many things would go that way of Chiper if we don’t get it right in class right now.
Smartboards
I love used the SmartBoard for two main reasons. 1) It allows you to save all your work and be able to print them off to your students who were absent. 2) It keeps the students engaged in the lesson. However the video did present some very good points. I've seen money spent on Smartboards to have them just act as very expensive screens. Even if they are used as "interactive" it's only one student at a time. This video was very helpful and influential and helped me a lot.
Carlis,
ReplyDeleteFor someone who, "goes through a lot of difficulty in this class" you sure did demonstrate a great understanding of the video's this time. I like how you pointed out how technology encourages active learning experiences instead of passive intake.
Great work, really.
Anthony
Carlis, I agree with you when you said that teachers should never stop learning. This is the key to a successful teacher. How can we expect our students to further their education and learning when we are not challenging our own self? Great points about Chipper and the Smartboards. I agree it is hard sometimes to get our assignments done, but it is important. Smartboards are useful and effective for many purposes. They are expensive, but many students are helped through this modern invention.
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