I like the suggestion in Web 2.0 of moving the classroom applications and data online so that students can work on the same applications from school while at home. I also like the idea of providing the textbooks digitally. E-readers, I believe, are the future of education. In addition, I think that teachers need to embrace student’s use of social-networking Web sites to help promote 21st century learning.
Many students presently communicate through Facebook and Twitter. Teachers could use the educational social-networking Web site, Edmodo, to communicate with their students. Then the students could communicate with the teachers also. This could truly be interactive as was seen in the A Day in the Life 2.0 article. Many of the teachers described in the article were communicating with students via blogs and assigning classwork and homework on the blog.
Chapter 9 also discussed using polls and surveys to evaluate technology use in the future. I have used surveys to evaluate how our school is doing in regard to bullying and harassment. I created a survey in zoomerang.com that assessed how well we as a school were doing in our advisory period to address bullying and harassment issues. The survey was distributed to our computer teachers who then sent the survey link out to all of their students for the students to answer the survey. This was a new way to survey our students. We moved away from the traditional pencil and paper survey to an online survey. This also helped me retrieve the results efficiently and evaluate how we as a school were preparing our students to address these issues. A survey or poll like this could also be sent out to students on a social-networking website. Teachers could use this type of survey to evaluate student's knowledge of a topic. The following article discusses the place that social media has in schools. http://www.techlearning.com/article/52186
Many students presently communicate through Facebook and Twitter. Teachers could use the educational social-networking Web site, Edmodo, to communicate with their students. Then the students could communicate with the teachers also. This could truly be interactive as was seen in the A Day in the Life 2.0 article. Many of the teachers described in the article were communicating with students via blogs and assigning classwork and homework on the blog.
Chapter 9 also discussed using polls and surveys to evaluate technology use in the future. I have used surveys to evaluate how our school is doing in regard to bullying and harassment. I created a survey in zoomerang.com that assessed how well we as a school were doing in our advisory period to address bullying and harassment issues. The survey was distributed to our computer teachers who then sent the survey link out to all of their students for the students to answer the survey. This was a new way to survey our students. We moved away from the traditional pencil and paper survey to an online survey. This also helped me retrieve the results efficiently and evaluate how we as a school were preparing our students to address these issues. A survey or poll like this could also be sent out to students on a social-networking website. Teachers could use this type of survey to evaluate student's knowledge of a topic. The following article discusses the place that social media has in schools. http://www.techlearning.com/article/52186
