Times are sure changing inside the school buildings around
the world. The way students interact
with the teacher and the tools they use are constantly changing. I believe it’s my job to help students come
up with ways they can share the information they are learning. What I have to remember is that students can
show me that information in many ways.
There is no specific technology tool that they need to use to show me
the information they acquire.
All four articles provide information to me on how the world
of technology is changing. I especially
like the information presented in “The
journey from Digital Literacy to Digital Fluency”. She talks about not doing away with her good
teaching just incorporating technology into those good student lessons. As we
teach and students learn in this new digital age isn’t that what all teachers
are striving to do? I know I am. The article on the eight ways to inquiry
learning also brings home the fact that we are teaching kids in new ways thanks
to technology and directly ties in and brings home the fact that kids are learning
in new and exciting ways and as teachers we need to understand that students
have the power to learn and explore thanks to today’s technology. I believe the correlation between all the
articles relates to teaching students critical thinking skills so they can
learn to explore the information they find and then share what they have
learned.
These articles directly relate to my learning goals of
finding as much information as I can about the technology in the world we live
in and add resources to my personal learning network.
Technology is awesome; I hope to be as digitally fluent as I can be by the time this course ends. Being digitally fluent is an asset to all disciplines. I am not in the Pk-12 setting; however, it is important to understand that people learn in a variety of ways. Technology is here to enhance and not take away. I think it is awesome to know that teachers are using a variety of technological methods to be as effective as they can be.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite article was The Journey from Digital Literacy to Digital Fluency. Next year is going to be a journey for me transitioning into a Media Specialist from a P.E. teacher. I will go from using almost no technology. I am excited to be able to learn and venture along with my students. I'm sure they will be able to teach me a thing or two! Our school focuses on Differentiated Instruction and it's very hard for some of our teachers to be this flexible. I think it will become much easier as assignments can now be graded using different websites instead of having students turning in 25 different paper projects.
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