As we move through this class we are learning to use tools to integrate technology into your curriculum. Are you finding that technology integration can enhance your classroom or not?
MassONE »« Reliability
There is the growing attitude that because I found it on the Internet it is so. What can we do as educator’s to make students understand that they need to validate the resource?
Technology Integration »« Plagiarism
The Three Cs article discusses researching on the Internet and student’s ability to copy and paste the information that they find right into a word processing document. How do we as educator’s make our student’s understand that doing this and submitting it as their own work is plagiarism?
Reliability »« The Three Cs
Although this article was written over three years ago, I feel it has real relevance in today’s classrooms. Our students have numerous ways to communicate/collaborate with others globally as evidenced by the blogging and other Web 2.0 resources we have been learning about. Do you as educators see a place for global communication/collaboration in your classrooms?
Plagiarism »« Web Site as a Classroom Resource
In struggling to come up with a thought provoking question to ask you all I read several articles posted on the web. Many suggested that Marc Prensky’s articles were both over simplifying the difference in the learning styles of today’s students and suggesting that we turn the classroom into a game room insulting to their teaching style. In addition, some felt that Mr. Prensky had exaggerated the amount that the today’s students brains could have changed in such a short period of time. In a rebuttal article Marc Prensky writes, I suspect that many critics react negatively to my true mission—to update instruction to fit our changing audience and times—because they fear that I am asking them to change everything they do, which to them means throwing the baby out with the bath water. What I am really pointing out is that most of the bath water has stagnated, and if we intend to keep the baby healthy, it is certainly time for the water to be changed.
What do you think, have our classrooms stagnated? Are we changing the delivery of instruction enough to accommodate the learning styles of our students? Do you consider yourself a digital immigrant. I look forward to reading what you think.
If you are interested, here is Marc Prenksy’s rebuttal.
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Inspiration/Kidspiration in the Classroom »« Greetings
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