Blog Post #1
Focus Question 1:
How do new technologies create new opportunities for teaching and learning?
- Educational technologies offer exciting, engaging, and effective alternatives to traditional instructional methods.
-Computer technologies can be used in ways that promote high levels f interaction and engagement among teachers and students.
-Web 2.0 tools are a new generation of technologies that can be used to create highly interactive, inquiry-based learning experiences at all grade levels.
Source:Transforming Learning with New Technologies pg.27
Summary:
The chapter talked a lot about the advantages and some disadvantages of technology. I agree that there are many new way to help children learn and keep them engaged in what they are learning. It is important as future educators to stay up to date with the technology and not get behind what is going on in the present. Some of the statistic blew my mind, for example " Nearly all children (99%) live in a home with a TV set, half (50%) have a TV set in their bedroom..." So we can see how important technology is in the lives of today's youth, and over time how much more it will become.
Source:Transforming Learning with New Technologies pg.3
I didn't do the Tech Tool... I couldn't understand it.
How do those new technologies relate to you - what is your reflection on the focus question that you selected? You will want to expand your thinking and reflection for future posts....and include the Tech Tool (if you don't understand it, please talk to me or classmates rather than omitting it!)
ReplyDeleteYour comment about the educators staying up to date with technology is true - living in the 21st century, we can't still teach with 20th century tools. How can you expand on that statement and the statistics you provided to connect to your future classroom? How might you use that information as a teacher?