Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

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Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

Children and young people are enthusiastic about technology and increasingly skilled in using it, although they may lack more advanced skills and knowledge. They spend much of their time using digital technology for entertainment, socialising and for learning1. However, exciting opportunities to harness children’s skills and enthusiasm to improve learning in schools are sometimes being missed:

Why use technology?

Interactivity

Collaboration

Communication

Sense of cohort

Variety of teaching and learning preferences

Formative and summative assessment

What is Technology?

Technology is comprised of the products and processes created by engineers to meet our needs and wants.

TechnologyStudy of our human-made world

Deals with “what can be

How Does Technology Address Human Needs and Wants?

Transportation

Technology

Medical

Manufacturing

&

Construction

Bio-Related andAgriculture

Nanotechnology

Information Communication

Energy and Power

Environmental

Information Technology

Information Technology allows us to send signals around the world.Examples:

Television, Internet, satellite, GPS, cell phones

Impacts of Information Technology

POSITIVE IMPACTS

NEGATIVE IMPACTS

INTERNET –Information is stored for easy access

INTERNET – Harder to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources

Cool websites

• Wiki• Glogster• Prezi• Cloze builder: Cloze Passage Builders

ExampleGraphic organizers (popplet, bubbl.us, Cayra, Text2MindMap

Communication Technology

Communication Technology is giving or exchanging information. Examples:

Magazines, DVDs, photography, video games

Twitter

What is Twitter?Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations.

“Twitter has simply become one of the best places for teachers to collaborate, share solutions to common classroom problems, and discuss education policy. In fact, it might just be the best forum teachers have ever had.” – Liz Dwyer

Edmodo

• Social learning network similar to Facebook designed specifically for foreign language students and teachers: teachers post assignments and reminders of upcoming

quizzes and tests, students can also post their own topics. This site gives the possibility for communicative language practice (as opposed to practicing vocabulary

or verb conjugations in isolation). This is a way for students to do the majority of preparation at home and practice actively with us in class!. This allows students

to hand in homework via the Edmodo interface and eliminate paper altogether!

The networked teacherby Alec Courosa

What is Facebook?

Social networking website connecting people across the street, country and world

Focuses on building and relating social relations among people who share common interests, activities and experiences

Who uses Facebook?

App used on mobile phones

Take a picture or a video add text and send it to a friend

Can be viewed for 1-10 seconds before disappearing

Can add to “Your Story”

What is Snapchat?