This course has exposed me to many new ideas which I am looking forward to sharing with students and colleagues. As the librarian, it is my job to collaborate with teachers to help deliver instructions, I am looking forward to sharing the technology I have learned in this course. At the end of the year I created two wikis to use with a social studies and science class. The experiences for the children were successful, especially the science wiki where students shared ideas and resources.
At the beginning of this coming school year, with the help of the ITT department, the library is going to host a technology fair to expose and in some cases reacquaint our staff with new and not so new technology that is available. I look forward to this and hope it helps me toward my goal of collaboration as a teacher librarian with my colleagues.
I will be receiving a tablet PC, while I do not fully understand its' capabilities I am looking forward to exploring what it can do and how it can be integrated.
Some other things I am working on are booktalks which are posted to my website using audacity, check them out at the following link Booktalks. I am going to recruit students to help me with this project this fall. Also, I am working on creating a blog which will be available through the library webpage for students and staff members to post their thoughts and ideas about books they are reading.
Hopefully, there will be more courses offered on-line, I found this course INFORMATIVE and ENJOYABLE!
Friday, July 13, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Lesson 11 - School 2.0
Everyone is connected and seem to be engaged using technology. It is great that students are using technology to communicate with stakeholders throughout the community and the world. One question, what about the importance of the face to face teaching and relationships? Will they be lost?
The fact that all the stakeholders, especially the parents, were involved with School 2.0 struck me. As a new generation of students come into our schools, we must remember, many of the parents have grown up as "digital natives" and by speaking their "language" we can have them involved in our schools and most importantly their child's education. Maybe it will help make schools more accessible to those who feel "threatened" by them.
The plan is intriguing - instant feeback to parents and students, learning taking place in a wider community than just the town the student lives in, collaboration between all the stakeholders and putting technology into our students hands at a young age.
Hilton, has many of these pieces in place, how can we continue to keep up with the technology and insure it is being used to allow our students to become part of the digital world in a productive and rich learning environment?
Not to be a naysayer, but the digital divide keeps coming to mind, what about the students that are not in districts that can support a learning environment like this?
The fact that all the stakeholders, especially the parents, were involved with School 2.0 struck me. As a new generation of students come into our schools, we must remember, many of the parents have grown up as "digital natives" and by speaking their "language" we can have them involved in our schools and most importantly their child's education. Maybe it will help make schools more accessible to those who feel "threatened" by them.
The plan is intriguing - instant feeback to parents and students, learning taking place in a wider community than just the town the student lives in, collaboration between all the stakeholders and putting technology into our students hands at a young age.
Hilton, has many of these pieces in place, how can we continue to keep up with the technology and insure it is being used to allow our students to become part of the digital world in a productive and rich learning environment?
Not to be a naysayer, but the digital divide keeps coming to mind, what about the students that are not in districts that can support a learning environment like this?
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