http://www.teachthought.com/technology/23-ways-to-use-the-ipad-in-the-21st-century-pbl-classroom/
This is a great example of using technology to enhance pedagogy. What I like about this website is that it not only shows what apps you can use in the classroom with your students, it also shows good pedagogy. It has great uses for using the apps to create project based learning. I like how it is not substituting technology for an existing pedagogy but creating new pedagogy using 21st century skills such as collaboration and creativity.
In this article http://edudemic.com/2012/09/edtech-integration/
my favourite line is:
But the more important thing I realized was that we are entering a phase with technology in instruction where many teachers who have been using it for awhile have integrated it into their teaching style – it’s part of our methodology.
That's the point I'd like to get to , where it becomes part of my methodology in my class.
I think that is the most perfect place to be, when the teacher has an awareness and implementation level of technology that reflects the technological world around us. Many times I feel that all this talk about implementing technology seems silly, but what it reveals is that in many ways education, and our classrooms in particular missed the the boat, and do not reflect very well what is common.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your desire to have technology in the classroom. How do you see cell phones being used effectively in a classroom? Some students have them, some don't. Some use them for class and others for texting and procrastination. Do you see cell phones as having a place in the classroom?
ReplyDeleteOwen, I believe in a "flood the good" approach to using any technology in a classroom. There will always be an entertaining side / distracting side to technology. What I attempt to do is to find as many ways as possible to use technology to enhance my lessons instead of allowing the twilight zone of distraction to arise.
DeleteOn that note I encourage smartphone/tablet/ipod for: getting student feedback with socrative.com, reviewing peer writing with google drive (available for android, iphone, blackberry, etc), the art of storytelling through song (student bring in a song that tells a story and we discuss story arc, plot, ballads, etc), as cameras to create photo essays, as recording devices for monologues, as flashlights to set mood for oral storytelling(yes really. you should try this sometimes), and many more uses.