Congratulations, Ryan! I agree with your assessment about technology.
We do a lot with it in my classroom, but its never passive. The
students are always responding orally or actually doing the computer
activity themselves.
I don't use technology just for the sake of using technology. I often
laugh when I hear of or read about some teachers who have been
recognized for their use of technology and realize that it wasn't all
that special... they just happened to be the ones that were noticed.
Magi
miyu wrote:
Well today I presented and defended my work for my grad degree and
successfully passed everything to finish up my MAT. Go me. :)
What was interesting though is I got into a semi-heated discussion of
the role of technology in the classroom and I was arguing that it is
being misused and there are far cheaper and easier alternatives to
teach the children. A professor was explaining to me how easily a
PowerPoint demonstration could be used to visually illustrate teaching
above, below, behind, in front of, to the side of, etc. in Spanish.
Unbeknownst to him this was the exact thing I had been working on
recently.
I reached into my school bag and pulled out a Treehouse stash. I then
demoed Tic-Tac-Doh! and showed how it could be used to teach all those
concepts as well as colors and had the added benefit of the children
actually participating instead of passively watching a screen. Then
my final clincher was to tell the panel my method costs 9$ retail plus
shipping.... and asked what their computer, software and projector cost.
:lol:
You could have heard a pin drop.
Everything though went very well, I passed with flying colors, and the
only comment was that I wasn't dressed as professionally as the others
(they were in suits and ties... I didn't even wear a tie when I got
married let alone for a class).
-Ryan
--
Ora, lege, lege, lege, relege, labora et invenies.
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