1. How can teachers integrate technology into their work as educators?
Since the technology we have today is multifaceted, there are many different ways in which teachers may utilize it to their advantage such as creating new and exciting course work, completing grading assignments, responding to students online posts for discussion topics or a particular assignment, and answering parents concerns in regards to their child’s academic progress to name a few.
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Edutopia is a great website which many educators share a wealth of knowledge to achieve the same goal and that is how to integrate technology to provide an enhanced learning experience for their students. It shares many videos where teachers in different grade levels are working together to come up with ideas on how to teach more creatively so that their students are much more engaged and understanding lessons. This link also contains videos with other links that contain downloadable material for which teachers to use when coming up with another approach to teaching on any particular subject. Another interesting thing this site mentions is the wiki page which is create by a community of teachers from all over sharing their educational ideas to promote the use of technology in teaching.
Summary
Technology
as the text implies has quite a bit of advantages in teaching when used in
connection with the proper content of any properly developed course material,
to accomplish many learning goals. Because of technology’s various features in
today’s society, its tools offer a wide array of ways in which it can be
utilized by teachers to be excited and innovative when it come to creating
their own personalize curriculum that will enhance their students ability to better
learn, grow and make better use of technology themselves. For this to be
possible, however, it is vital for any teacher wanting to attempt integrating technology
into any lesson, to carefully construct their lessons; meanwhile, they’re to
analyze how and which technology tool will be the most resourceful for him or
her to carry out for t learning purposes.
Nice hyperlinking! :) The Edutopia site is a great one to really spend time with - it is a repository of valuable information and opportunities. I wonder how you are beginning to formulate those carefully constructed lessons. Do you think that technology will be easy to integrate or will it be an afterthought?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely an afterthought! Remember I am taking baby steps--or even worse--I'm still at the molecular level. That's how tiny the steps are for me.
DeleteI think you undervalue your learning! :)
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