Why Bring Technology into the Classroom?
The essential question we are all wrestling with is the idea that we may be doing this for some inexplicable reason. We need to disabuse ourselves of this notion. The idea that the world is at our fingertips is only one reason to bring the internet and its tools into our classroom. The important pedagogical reason is that it heightens and utilizes different intelligences and opens conversational doors that would otherwise remain closed. Web 2.0 is a means of giving our students windows into their own metacognition and allows them flexibility in exploring their apptitudes and does so in a way that is meaningful to them. The oft-heard lament of educators today is, how do I make this relevant to my students? The fact of utilizing technology in a creatively interactive way rather than just as a research and writing tool makes learning and thinking relevant and enticing to today’s students. Please take a look at the Youtube video, Education Today and Tomorrow that is located above.3 years ago
