Wednesday, March 17, 2010
What I hope to learn about technology
I hope in this class that I learn about the technology out there. I don't know that much about the new things that have come out and frankly, I don't know what most of the "required accounts" we had to get even are. I am glad to be in this class because I want to know what technology I can use in a 2nd grade classroom to better my teaching. I mainly want to know what technology is out there that my students are using that I don't even know about yet. I feel like at age 7 and 8, they are going to pass me up with their knowledge of technology.
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Good point about the students coming to you. At a conference yesterday one of the speakers showed his colleague's 2-year old using Second Life. She had already figured out how to make her avatar fly. They may come to us with a whole new set of skills and expectations, but it is up to us to figure out how to effectively and logically use these tools to facilitate learning.
ReplyDeleteOne of the good things about this class is we are all learning together. Some of the tools this year are new since last year, so we need to think about what they allow students to do more than the mechanics of the tool itself.