Technology is not your enemy

For our university Digital Learning course we did an immersion task which consisted in creating an ‘infomercial’ for the use of technology n the classroom. It is available in this previous post, and you will find below the mind maps which reflects upon the main features and issues of digital video in our KLAs (science and maths) and suggests some ways DV might be used in maths and science.

Doing this immersion activity really impressed upon us how digital video has opened up a new world of learning opportunities for classrooms. It does this in two main ways:

- It allows the teacher to create their own videos for instructional teaching purposes, and edit them simply, efficiently and on an ongoing basis, continually refining or updating them.

- It is a great tool for group projects and teaching students both social and technology skills, allowing them to construct authentic, personalised, projects that still incorporate curricula outcomes.

The only ‘drawback’ of using digital video is that teachers need to be able to be adventurous and ‘take risks’. If teachers are willing to do this, and to learn with and from their students, then any extra training or time taken learning to use the technology shouldn’t be too great.

First mind map:

Second mind map (more specific to videos):

And for the curious, here is another Youtube link to our video.

Filed under: Maths, Science, Technology and tagged Maths, Science, Videos