How should you integrate technology into the classroom?
The topic in essence is: How should you integrate technology into the classroom? (NOT whether) Now when answering this question you should be on this side: 2) technology should be used to support student-centered approaches and revolutionary change in education.
1. Give it a title use your imagination(i.e: heavens crashing)
2. open with a quote from poetry or a novel or a song (NOT from education), a video-clip, a comic-strip, etc that will connect to what you are going to say 3.write at least 250 (not including the quote)
4. Use the following resources to support what your are saying: (do not use other resources as our teacher told us to use the following resources) -http://ethosworld.com/library/John-Taylor-Gatto-THE-EXHAUSTED-SCHOOL-How-Did-We-Ever-Come-to-Believe-that-the-State-Should-Tell-Our-Children-What-to-Think.pdf – http://hrast.pef.uni-lj.si/~joze/podiplomci/prs/clanki03/CSILE_Scardamaila.htm -http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cftde/3001F03/seely.html
-I will also attach a pdf with my order.
5. connect your position to what Jessy-Anne says which is on the same side as me student-centered. (So you want to say at some point that your agree with something she said and add on to that point)
Here is what Jessy-Anne wrote: (Don’t forget to start with a poem, quote or an image to connect to what you will be saying) (Jessy-Anne forgot to do that)
It is true that technology does become a huge resource for teachers. Although, the use of technology in the classroom should not be limited to being a tool for teachers. There is so much that the students can do with technology, that by limiting its use to the teacher’s benefit, students lose opportunities to create and hands on experiences.
As Valerie says, teachers should integrate technology in the classroom to explore different types of lessons for the multiple intelligences, I do believe it is important, but the use of technology should definitely not stop there. It is a wonderful chance we have to live in a time where we have access to infinite possibilities, might as well use it.
In one of her articles, Noddings (2013) says that ‘Educators cannot teach creativity.’ Of course technology acts like an agent of creativity by changing the interactions in a lesson and helps the kids focus, but the creativity of the student is really developing while the create things, not when information is simply given. Hands on activities and student centered teaching will help gain that whole new perspective on learning and development of creativity, to a point that teachers can’t teach them.
The constructivist point of view (Robylyer,M.D. + Schwier,R.A (2003) Integrating Educational Technology into teaching. Canadian Edition. p.3) helps us understand how learning is constructed knowledge, compared to transmitted knowledge. By going for a student- center approach, students learn in a deeper and meaningful way how to construct their knowledge. It is giving the students a chance to achieve their full potential and grow into a well developed, creative and meaningful human being. Teachers should only serve as a guide and facilitators. They should be students assistant and not the director of their mind.
Students should be able to be the captain of their mind and not learn to let others tell them what or how to think. They have to develop an own sense of knowledge, and this is where technology can play a significant role into its construction.Therefore the teacher has to accept that in order to achieve one’s deeper learning, they have to take a step back and let them figure it out instead of giving it straight up.
