Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities How to Get Hesitant Teachers to Use Technology In my consulting as well as administrative technology work, I am often asked the same questions by different schools and officials. One of the most common is: “How do you get teachers who are hesitant or resistant to use technology?” I am keenly aware that many of my colleagues are not, for various reasons, gung ho about educational technology. And it’s interesting. Quite often, the teachers who are hesitant to adopt new technology are great — in fact, amazing — educators. In my role as tech advocate, I habitually find myself trying to coax these established educators to use new tools and incorporate new methodologies. 1. If you’re working with veteran educators, this is especially important. Instead, try this: observe what they do in the classroom that’s made them successful and build out from there. 2. If teachers express a want or need for technology in the classroom (a particular browser, program, hardware, etc.) accommodate them! 3. 4. Teachers are not done at three o’clock. 5. 6.
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Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg 12 Things You Should Never Do When You Teach Online 453 Flares Twitter 133 Facebook 249 Google+ 36 LinkedIn 35 inShare35 453 Flares × You are never alone when teaching online. As a writer and teacher, I’m here to share my experiences and insights so that you will not hit the ground. We all know there are a lot of great articles out there on the web that talk about what you should do when you teach online. Here are 12 things I recommend that online teachers do not do: 1. There are a number of things folks need to know when they log-in to your online course for the first time. Sometimes getting this information out of an online classroom is like running an obstacle course. 2. Learning assessments, however they are put together, need to be relevant to the material at hand, and they need to move the learning process forward. About 100 years ago when I was doing my masters in higher education, I took a course from the test construction Prof in my department. 3. But you don’t have to go to extremes to kill enthusiasm for your online course. 4.
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It is not about e-safety, it is about digital citizenship (@guardianteach) This week the Guardian Teacher Network has resources to help you teach pupils how to stay safe – and how to conduct yourself – online. Mike Britland starts the article with the following food-for-thought... “In recent weeks, the problem of safe and appropriate use of the internet, and specifically social networking sites, has been brought to the fore. It doesn’t matter if you agree with the term ‘Digital Citizenship’ or not. As I have said time and time again – it is about responsible use and not about saying ‘no’, locking or blocking. Anyway, Mike has done a good job of pulling together some up-to-date resources for teachers to help them teach Internet Safety and Responsible Use. The article also features resources and advice from @mattbritland, @esafetyadviser and @teachertoolkit.
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10 tips to avoid technology integration frustration You’ve heard it before, you’ve seen it before, and you’ve most likely experienced it yourself before: technology integration frustration. Change is not easy. When we talk about change, especially technology changes that take us into the wide world of the unknown, things can quickly become even more complicated. Technology integration in schools is particularly important because kids are really branching out and utilizing technology at a much higher rate than ever before. Here are 10 tips to help you and your colleagues avoid technology integration frustration. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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