I know that this thought has crossed all of our minds at frequent intervals, but where does all my time go. I love technology but it is often hard to keep up with the emails and blogs and podcasts and.... But it is a great tool. It provides a space to "wax poetic" on a topic of interest to me and then allows others it might catch to interact. I work with high school students and am not yet sure how I might engage them with it but I'm eager to learn more!!
I welcome some ideas that any of you have employed to engage students of varying age and ability in active blogs with an educational focus.
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To show how well I'm doing in this class, I had thought I posted a comment and then realized that I never confirmed it by keying the word that shows up. Oops! I'll try again.
ReplyDeleteI think that what can happen is that we end up spending more time using technology than it actually saves us. In an effort to join the tech world, we come up with lame reasons for doing something. I'm hoping that in time I'll be able to decipher between a good use and one that simply adds minutes on to my day. If it's just busy work, it isn't doing me any favors and won't really benefit my students.
I guess I really don't think of technology as saving me time. (Although I admit if I had to type a paper with a typewriter it would take me days with all the corrections versus hours with a word processor.)
ReplyDeleteI think of technology as a tool. A tool that allows me to do things I couldn't do otherwise. Like collaborate with others not in the same time and space as me. Just as the slate boards that students used at the turn of the 20th Century gave way to paper and pencil allowing for more writing (papers) and math to be done, the computer also allows for a more dynamic classroom, moving away from the lecture setting to a student-centered setting.