Our students come to us a lot more tech savvy that we are and sometimes we need to learn form them just what to do as we restructure our lessons to include more tech tools.
I believe that technology is best served when we use it to do something completely new and not just to do the same old stuff a different way. What I mean by this is: although the students may enjoy going on the computer it should not just be to do a digitized text book reading or assignment, rather than have them read the paper book. It should be a lot more than that. When used in this way we are only doing the same old thing just differently.
The students can receive a better understanding and become more energized to learn if they have to do a lot more. For me however being new to all the tech ideas I am not so sure what that "more" is or should entail.
I teach Algebra 1 and Geometry to high school students and would love to incorporate more than just the usual power point lesson presentations for my topics. I would love to find out more so I can do more.
Anyone with ideas please let me know. In addition to this I am also doing this post for my Masters assignment. New to blogging and all, thought it would be great to kill two birds with one stone.
