Reflection Understanding the Impact of Technology
Week 7
In this
course Understanding the impact of technology I was able to learn analyze and
learn about how integrating of technology can improve
pedagogy, practice, and student learning.
I also learned about the importance of getting acquainted with
technology through blogs, podcast, email, cell phones, tablets and other
technologies. This class really helped
me develop my blog so that it may be able to be researchable by RSS feeds, and understand the community of learners
available in the cyber life.
In our discussion boards we were able to
explore society changes and how these changes might influence integration in the
classroom. During that week our class
was asked to form groups and explain how technology has changed the
workplace. We also constructed a plan
for blogs as a teaching tool and articulate how to work collaboratively, and
understand to which extent classroom environments are disconnected from modern
workplace.
Probably the most challenging part of the
course was developing group wiki becase for that one week all of the classmate
that participated in the group had to be on one accord. This lesson help define barriers that come with group exercise
such as setting a time to work together then making sure each classmate could
express their opinions or feedback on the specific subject. Next classmates had to understand their goals
or objectives for the project.
One of the most interesting assignments was evaluating the role
technology can play in building 21st-century skills. This assignment was cool because we learned
the importance of partnership for 21st Century Skills website, and analyze the
implications of teaching 21st-century skills for students and educator. The question was asked was the fellow
classmates digital natives and how do they meet learning needs of students
population?
With so many students being technology savvy teachers are given
the challenge of using different technology tools in the classroom and knowing
when to use the different technologies. One
of the suggestion was designing a lesson that uses Web 2.0 tool to integrate
collaborative problems Teachers also
shared here problems on the internet with guest. Next students had to research the differences
of technology exposure, utilization, and skill among the students in the
classroom and present.
This week we learned how teachers role were transferred because of
the changes in technology, society, students changing teachers were faced with
the challenge of making the course interesting.
Finally I believe that some of the question that I may have had
about the impact of technology has changed through information provided by this
course. I will also take the information
given and try to incorporate it in my current teaching environment.
