Week 3: Using technology to keep the Student...and Teacher Engaged
How do we stop ourselves as teachers, from just turning on the screen and having students watch a bunch of youtube clips in place of a lesson? Yes, technology has become very handy and useful in the last years but it has also created a lackluster and maybe even lazy group of teachers. I'll admit I struggle with this myself.
The key, I believe, is not just understanding what technology can do for the students but what it can do for us, as teachers; in lesson planning and execution. We can find a balance of making our jobs more efficient in addition to making a lesson meaningful without spending hours creating it. Now, with the use of many online tools, an activity or lesson can be generated in a click of a button.
But we cannot forget the execution of it all. In Lisa Nielson's blog, The Innovative Educator, she discusses the "12 C's to Managing the Modern Classroom". I was immediately drawn to the article because of the title and use of the word "managing". As teachers we need to facilitate and allow a student to figure his own way to the answers. Bringing technology into the classroom seems like a daunting task to me because it leads to many different paths and opens almost too many windows. By following these 12 C's, not only does the student keep on task but I, as the teacher, can become an active part of the lesson as well. Technology does not have to make us obsolete.
The key, I believe, is not just understanding what technology can do for the students but what it can do for us, as teachers; in lesson planning and execution. We can find a balance of making our jobs more efficient in addition to making a lesson meaningful without spending hours creating it. Now, with the use of many online tools, an activity or lesson can be generated in a click of a button.
But we cannot forget the execution of it all. In Lisa Nielson's blog, The Innovative Educator, she discusses the "12 C's to Managing the Modern Classroom". I was immediately drawn to the article because of the title and use of the word "managing". As teachers we need to facilitate and allow a student to figure his own way to the answers. Bringing technology into the classroom seems like a daunting task to me because it leads to many different paths and opens almost too many windows. By following these 12 C's, not only does the student keep on task but I, as the teacher, can become an active part of the lesson as well. Technology does not have to make us obsolete.
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