Today I came accross this post of Don who, I must admit, discloses some issues relating to the education of teachers that I think need urgent consideration. Mainly, he says that teenagers now use technology everyday, and that teachers need the training to be able to follow them and include technology in the classroom.
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References and advice:
Hoffenberg, H., & Handler, M. (2001). Digital video goes to school. Learning & Leading with Technology, 29(2), 10-15.
BECTA (2003). What the research says about digital video in teaching and learning.
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This article from Hoffenberg and Handler (2001), is not the most recent we can find about the benefits of making videos as an educational tool… but surely the principles described there still hold today!
The main idea is that video-making must have a purpose, which means it must be oriented towards the curriculum or, as the [...]
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Visiting slideshare this evening I came accross a very instructive slideshow about… Powerpoint presentations (one very well known type of slideshow). The main ideas being: to keep it simple, and have a point AND a structure. But you’re better of looking at it by yourself… it might help us remember how to get the message [...]
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I was talking the other day about constructionism (see this post).
As a math teacher (and this can be used in science as well), Geogebra is just the perfect tool to allow students to construct their own knowledge. It is a very ‘user friendly’ software used for dynamic geometric constructions, and that has also basic graphing [...]
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In reaction to Maree’s post, dealing with social networking and socializing in cyberspace:
Who doesn’t have an opinion about Facebook, Myspace, and the likes?
What parent is not concerned (to different levels) with the time their children spend on the computer, and, more, on the internet?
The fact that teenagers spend more and more time socializing via other [...]
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Technology use is not new. Whether or not one wants to integrate it in his classroom depends on one’s own views. Nevertheless, in an attempt to convince you, I’d like to comment on this article from Papert (1980).
Some of the ideas also integrate essential comments from this article of Romeo (2004)
Well, let’s get started! Essentially, [...]
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There are numerous ways to integrate technology in the classroom.
Being a Science and Maths teacher this might be more obvious for me but I believe that every teacher — if willing to do so — can find ideas to deal with computers / internet / mobile phones and others… and so doing, making lessons more [...]
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