Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education. Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education by Terry Heick Some educators are upset. Recently I’ve noticed an increasing number of ed folks enthusiastically question education technology—and do so with enough sarcasm and bitterness and choice language to embarrass their mothers. If you’re not making some people angry, you’re probably not trying hard enough, but being “for” or “against” technology is a crude sentiment.
I’ve been trying to understand it–and note, this isn’t even about whether or not #edtech is good or bad. This is more about all that hostility. It makes sense to be skeptical of change, especially in an industry with such a mixed history of evolving itself. This has a few net negative effects, among them a kind of permanent momentum where change comes and change goes. Failure is the change. The Problem With The #edtech Conversation This is a big part of the problem.
Further complicating matters is the difficulty of effectively integrating technology in the classroom. Face-to-Face vs. Online Learning: Why Is It Either/Or? In the film The Intern, a 70-year-old senior citizen named Ben Whittaker (Robert DeNiro), applies for a "senior" internship with a fashion tech start-up experiencing explosive growth.
The interview process requires him to submit a video. Uncertain how to make a video, Ben enlists his nine-year-old grandson and wows the company with his warmth and personality. Ben gets the job. He brings real-life experience to his new role, and his high EQ brings dividends to the company's fast-moving, overcommitted CEO, who learns to appreciate and value Ben for his sincerity and integrity. His "old school" approach finds him in a suit and tie each day, while his younger colleagues wear t-shirts and don't shave. Ben’s charm is that he is skilled at and values conversation. In "Reclaiming Conversation," a recent New York Times op-ed piece, Professor Sherry Turkle writes: And in The Intern, Ben challenges CEO Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) to learn who she is through conversation, listening, and empathy. 1.
Media-Making Toolkit : KQED Education | KQED Public Media for Northern CA. Are you interested in integrating media making into your classroom? Making media, such as videos, narrated slideshows and online maps, can be an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build critical thinking skills. Find instructions, videos, worksheets and rubrics for implementing media-making projects with students.
We also have self-paced professional development courses that you can take to learn media production! Media Making in the Science Classroom An overview of the intersection between skills needed in science and media production. Introduction to the Media-Making for Science Education Toolkit An overview of the resources in the Toolkit. Choosing Content What makes a quality piece of science media? Choosing Your Media Format What type of media format is best suited to tell your story? Choosing Equipment How do you decide on equipment to purchase and/or use?
Media-Making Resources – Video Tips and resources for creating short videos. Sample Student Multimedia Projects. How social media is ruining our self esteem—and how to make it stop. At college, I did my homework in the library on weekends, invariably procrastinating by clicking through Facebook photos. I’d start by stalking a classmate from Intro to Italian, who seemed to jet-set to exotic destinations every week.
Next, my friends; images of parties, group dinners, status updates about new relationships, and dream internships. An hour later, I’d find myself going through every photo of a friend of a friend’s horseback riding championship. Eventually pulling myself away from the screen, I would look at my weekend hideaway in the library with new, more disapproving eyes. Why wasn’t I at that party? Why didn’t she invite me to dinner? Though the particulars may vary, my experience is not the exception. But social media itself is not the problem — it’s how we use it to curate our lives, posting our best moments and deleting the worst.
So what’s my thought? How Teachers Can Use Video Games In The Humanities Classroom | The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning. Part 12 of MindShift’s Guide to Games and Learning. We often think about game-based learning as if video games can become robotic teachers. In the same way that software file systems have created more flexible and efficient file cabinets, we imagine that video games can make great instruction more scalable and accessible. In the same way that email, text messages, and social media have provided more efficient methods of communication, we imagine that digital analytic systems will streamline assessment. These things are true. While digital games will certainly never replace a great teacher, they are tools that can help teachers do their jobs more effectively.
But let’s approach video games in a different way. At the moment, there’s far too little critical examination of video games happening in school. On the contrary, video games may be indicative of a shift in the way we construct narrative. How can we be more cognizant of the implicit messaging in video games? Jordan Shapiro. Web Tools Smackdown - Edcamp North Carolina. 5 cool OneNote features you're probably not using. OneNote is one of the two titans of note-taking apps (the other being Evernote), but most users barely scratch the surface of its capabilities. More than a digital notepad, OneNote is a flexible tool for capturing, organizing, and contextualizing data. We pull back the curtain on five features you should be using to get the most out of this productivity powerhouse. Embed anything If your idea of “notes” is a bulleted list of text, you’re missing out on one of OneNote’s best features.
Manage meeting details OneNote is tightly integrated with Outlook. You can also create tasks in OneNote that are automatically added to your Outlook tasks, or insert Outlook meeting details into notes from that meeting. Do napkin math If you need to calculate a simple equation, there’s no need to go hunting for your calculator app. Record audio and video on the fly OneNote also syncs the timing of audio and video to match text that's typed in OneNote.
Create custom tags. The Death Of Conversation: I Photograph People Obsessed With Their Smartphones. I don’t have a problem with portable tech specifically, because our devices facilitate our lives, but I believe it is making people seriously dull… I started to photograph people in company on their phones as there was a certain symmetry to them and it appealed on a visual level, but as I continued I noticed an inherent sadness to the proceedings. Before mobile phones were invented, people would have had no choice but to interact. However, that is no longer necessary as we can all now “pretend” we are doing something “important” on our devices rather than think of something to say. This is killing conversation. Most people used to use cigarettes as a social prop. More info: babycakesromero.com. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have.
By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below. The 21st century teacher should be able to : 1- Create and edit digital audio Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Free Audio Tools for Teachers 2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : A List of Best Bookmarking Websites for Teachers 3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Great Tools to Create Protected Blogs and Webpages for your Class 4- Exploit digital images for classroom use Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Web Tools to Edit Pictures without Installing any softwareTools to Convert Photos into Cartoons.