Technology is everchanging! Is keeping up to Speed is crucial to make the most of today's vast technology? How much technology integration should be in the classroom? What is your thoughts on a full integration of technology in the classroom? Is there a line of too much technology? What about the impact of technology in education on a students critical thinking abilty? What about impact on verbal communication skills?
After thinking about technology integration in education topic, I decided since I was starting by creating a Blog for class. When discussing this with friends and family, the common question they asked is why do we need blogs? So to summarize, it links to why I like to take online classes is similar to the reason Blogging is becoming popular in education. To explain my switch to online education and now to Blogging. It all started with when I was in a brick and mortar classroom, I was quiet and reserved. I would have to listen to the instructors lecture, then some student would chime in on the discussion for some insight they wanted to add. In many cases the students input was way off topic and before we knew it class was over and we never finished the material we needed to cover. I had input to add, but was shy and feared I would not put my thoughts out there in a way that would not be ridiculed, so I stayed quiet. Once I took an online class, I would post required comments on the chat room. I could get my thought out without interruption and could edit it before posting. Where in the class once you have said something there is no taking it back. The drawpack to posting in the class post sight is your feedback is limited to your class roster. With Blogging, the feedback can be widespread and you can get numerous responses to your thoughts or perspective. If someone disagrees with your perspectis, you can be assured someone will promptly let you know why your perspective needs some rethinking. It is like checks and balances to your research, ideas, thoughts, and opinions. It lets you put your thoughts out there in private, and then posting them for the world to chime in with their input. So, to further link Blogging to technology integration in education lets use texting, students love to text. Educators and parents alike feel students that text are not learning face to face communication. We can not fight the texting battle, so lets use Blogging to take text a big step further. To this we can encourage students to Blog their thoughts and thus killing two birds with one stone, by letting students have their technology in the classroom, but they need to write their insights through Blogging and thus gaining practice with writing, critical thinking and at the same time getting feedback from their peers. This is just the tip of the perverbial iceberg of technology integration, and will help students buy into using technology beyond texting what they ate for breakfast or what social event they attended lately.
Problem Question: There is so much new and amazing technology being put to use everyday. So the question of the day is why limit your classroom technology to just using PowerPoint as a presentation tool?
Starr, Linda (2000). PowerPoint: Creating Classroom Presentations. Education World: The Educators Best Friend. Retrieved November 6, 2011, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech013.shtml
The author based this article on how an instructor with limited PowerPoint experience, could still engage students in taking their great information from research on their topic chosen and still create great presentations that include other technological facets. Some examples of this extended use in PowerPoint are hyperlinks, sound clips, movie clips, animations, etc. PowerPoint is versatile and scaffolds being just engaging presentations. The technological advances can begin in PowerPoint with the click of a button and the class is transform to the World Wide Web for more information, narratives, educational clips, etc.
Students become involved in their learning and through creating presentations the information are further cemented in student’s memory and the whole class becomes engaged in the process. The author of this article mentions that PowerPoint opens the world of technology and brings it to the classroom and is easy for student success.
This article also mentions this valid point that PowerPoint goes beyond just use by students. Instructors can use PowerPoint is for more than just presentations, they can create custom quizzes, animations, movie clips, etc.
What education-related topic(s) are you interested in gaining more information? I would be interested in the use of smart phones (student’s phones) in the classroom as a tool to scaffold learning in high school and possible as early as 6th grade. What would it take to implement this in daily learning without out being a distraction to learning? What problems could arise from the use of cell phones texting or blogging in the classroom? What internal or external threats could arise in the research? How does this topic(s) relate to your current position? This topic is in line with my current position. Before this class, I did not believe cell phones, IPods; musical devices had a place in the classroom. Now, I believe that with the proper structure and lesson plans relating to California Standards, these electronic devices can be a valuable teaching tool. What significance would this study have on your current position? This study significance could make it clear how students, educators, parents, staff, would feel about this stance. Also, valuable feedback would be received to others that may have implemented the use of this type of technology in the classroom and problems and successes that have occurred. From the results of the initial quantitative survey and the following qualitative study procedures could be implemented to create a successful integration of these electronic devices in to class curriculum. If there was a strong opposition by the majority, an education campaign could be created to help those in opposition understand why this is a positive thing for our students education and for their future success as a producer in our society. How realistic or feasible would it be for you to conduct this study? It would be extremely realistic and feasible to conduct this study. This is such a hot topic among educators, students, parents and community members that there would be willing participants or subjects thus allowing for a more than adequate amount of participants. It appears that many people would want to chime in and willingly participate in this study. It would have to be written impartially being that I feel there would be opposition, and that writing the questions would be a challenge to keep impartial being I am supportive of the technology use in the classroom. Do you see this study as a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method design? I see the initial study would be quantitative to find out the percentage of people in support, in opposition to, and mixed feelings. Based on quantitative results, a mixed bag study would follow incorporating other questions to why they feel the way they do about technology in the classroom. Then followed by hypothetical reasons why technology is here to stay and how it helps our students become trained producers in the future business world. How I would basically focus the use of cell phones to begin would be to give the students a quick write topic to address. Then they would think about the topic and then text a response to a student in the class. The class would spend 5 – 10 minutes on this process. Then students could write about their classmate’s response and their feelings on the response to turn into the instructor or they could text the instructor on a number only for the use of this class. If some students did not have phones, they could use the computers instant messenger, i.e., Yahoo Messenger. The farther reaching scaffold of this could be to create blogs if technology is available in the class. If not the students could write it and use the school library computers or from computer lab. The instructor could arrange this with school administration prior to this lesson.
After thinking about technology integration in education topic, I decided since I was starting by creating a Blog for class. When discussing this with friends and family, the common question they asked is why do we need blogs? So to summarize, it links to why I like to take online classes is similar to the reason Blogging is becoming popular in education. To explain my switch to online education and now to Blogging. It all started with when I was in a brick and mortar classroom, I was quiet and reserved. I would have to listen to the instructors lecture, then some student would chime in on the discussion for some insight they wanted to add. In many cases the students input was way off topic and before we knew it class was over and we never finished the material we needed to cover. I had input to add, but was shy and feared I would not put my thoughts out there in a way that would not be ridiculed, so I stayed quiet. Once I took an online class, I would post required comments on the chat room. I could get my thought out without interruption and could edit it before posting. Where in the class once you have said something there is no taking it back. The drawpack to posting in the class post sight is your feedback is limited to your class roster. With Blogging, the feedback can be widespread and you can get numerous responses to your thoughts or perspective. If someone disagrees with your perspectis, you can be assured someone will promptly let you know why your perspective needs some rethinking. It is like checks and balances to your research, ideas, thoughts, and opinions. It lets you put your thoughts out there in private, and then posting them for the world to chime in with their input. So, to further link Blogging to technology integration in education lets use texting, students love to text. Educators and parents alike feel students that text are not learning face to face communication. We can not fight the texting battle, so lets use Blogging to take text a big step further. To this we can encourage students to Blog their thoughts and thus killing two birds with one stone, by letting students have their technology in the classroom, but they need to write their insights through Blogging and thus gaining practice with writing, critical thinking and at the same time getting feedback from their peers. This is just the tip of the perverbial iceberg of technology integration, and will help students buy into using technology beyond texting what they ate for breakfast or what social event they attended lately.
ReplyDeleteProblem Question: There is so much new and amazing technology being put to use everyday. So the question of the day is why limit your classroom technology to just using PowerPoint as a presentation tool?
ReplyDeleteStarr, Linda (2000). PowerPoint: Creating Classroom Presentations. Education World: The Educators Best Friend. Retrieved November 6, 2011, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech013.shtml
The author based this article on how an instructor with limited PowerPoint experience, could still engage students in taking their great information from research on their topic chosen and still create great presentations that include other technological facets. Some examples of this extended use in PowerPoint are hyperlinks, sound clips, movie clips, animations, etc. PowerPoint is versatile and scaffolds being just engaging presentations. The technological advances can begin in PowerPoint with the click of a button and the class is transform to the World Wide Web for more information, narratives, educational clips, etc.
Students become involved in their learning and through creating presentations the information are further cemented in student’s memory and the whole class becomes engaged in the process. The author of this article mentions that PowerPoint opens the world of technology and brings it to the classroom and is easy for student success.
This article also mentions this valid point that PowerPoint goes beyond just use by students. Instructors can use PowerPoint is for more than just presentations, they can create custom quizzes, animations, movie clips, etc.
What education-related topic(s) are you interested in gaining more information?
ReplyDeleteI would be interested in the use of smart phones (student’s phones) in the classroom as a tool to scaffold learning in high school and possible as early as 6th grade. What would it take to implement this in daily learning without out being a distraction to learning? What problems could arise from the use of cell phones texting or blogging in the classroom? What internal or external threats could arise in the research?
How does this topic(s) relate to your current position? This topic is in line with my current position. Before this class, I did not believe cell phones, IPods; musical devices had a place in the classroom. Now, I believe that with the proper structure and lesson plans relating to California Standards, these electronic devices can be a valuable teaching tool.
What significance would this study have on your current position? This study significance could make it clear how students, educators, parents, staff, would feel about this stance. Also, valuable feedback would be received to others that may have implemented the use of this type of technology in the classroom and problems and successes that have occurred. From the results of the initial quantitative survey and the following qualitative study procedures could be implemented to create a successful integration of these electronic devices in to class curriculum. If there was a strong opposition by the majority, an education campaign could be created to help those in opposition understand why this is a positive thing for our students education and for their future success as a producer in our society.
How realistic or feasible would it be for you to conduct this study? It would be extremely realistic and feasible to conduct this study. This is such a hot topic among educators, students, parents and community members that there would be willing participants or subjects thus allowing for a more than adequate amount of participants. It appears that many people would want to chime in and willingly participate in this study. It would have to be written impartially being that I feel there would be opposition, and that writing the questions would be a challenge to keep impartial being I am supportive of the technology use in the classroom.
Do you see this study as a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method design? I see the initial study would be quantitative to find out the percentage of people in support, in opposition to, and mixed feelings. Based on quantitative results, a mixed bag study would follow incorporating other questions to why they feel the way they do about technology in the classroom. Then followed by hypothetical reasons why technology is here to stay and how it helps our students become trained producers in the future business world.
How I would basically focus the use of cell phones to begin would be to give the students a quick write topic to address. Then they would think about the topic and then text a response to a student in the class. The class would spend 5 – 10 minutes on this process. Then students could write about their classmate’s response and their feelings on the response to turn into the instructor or they could text the instructor on a number only for the use of this class. If some students did not have phones, they could use the computers instant messenger, i.e., Yahoo Messenger. The farther reaching scaffold of this could be to create blogs if technology is available in the class. If not the students could write it and use the school library computers or from computer lab. The instructor could arrange this with school administration prior to this lesson.