Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thing 2
Wow. That is a lot to try and take in. "A Day in the Life of Web 2.0" was very overwhelming to me. Although I can see the benefits, I can also see where many teachers would not want to or be able to do this. It seems time consuming. Which it would be until you had a good understanding of what you were doing. I believe that I personally am moderately technologically advanced, but many concern is for teachers who are not. It is amazing how far technology has come in the last 15 years. Every time we turn around it seems something else is being improved on. It makes it hard to keep up with! However, we are in education to educate kids. If this means that we need to take the time to learn more about technology and incorporate it into our classrooms, then that is what needs to be done. Technology is not a fad. It is the future and so are our students. We must prepare them and in turn prepare ourselves. I am excited to see how using these tools in my classroom this next will not only help students and myself; but also, how it will help parents. It is difficult to communicate with parents at times. Their schedules don't always fit around a school day schedule. By using blogging to post homework assignments, upcoming tests, projects, field trips...the list goes on and on, we are again helping our students become more successful. I do realize that is can be time consuming until I understand how to use it effectively (there are a lot of "things" in the design of the blog that I am not sure of), but I am hoping once I practice how to use blogging it won't be as time consuming and overwhelming.
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Excellent insights! I couldn't agree with you more that educators have to stop being afraid of technology and start getting their feet wet! I feel very strongly that we owe it to our students to at least try to understand and prepare them for the digital world they're already a part of and will be expected to participate in as adults.
ReplyDeleteYou're also right that these things can become very time consuming if you let them, and many educators feel that adding technology to their curriculum is a huge burden for them. Hopefully, though, as you pointed out, as teachers begin to interact with various tools and slowly experiment with them in the classroom, they'll begin to recognize their value and see them as a more integral part of what they do from day to day as a teacher! :)
Excellent reflection! Thing 2 complete!