Worried That You're Not in Touch with Today's Technological Tools in the Classroom? Do some of These Describe you?
Okay, so some of these are tongue-in-cheek, but some of them are quite serious.
It can be challenging to be a teacher today and be technologically out-of-date. Not only will you be lost when students and other teachers look to discuss some of these technologies with you, but you are missing out on tools that can enable students to stay in touch with learning outside of the classroom, and much more.
Most people don't like change very much, and that's normal and quite understandable, but if you bury your head in the sand the world is going to pass you by. Now that's not to say that tech just for the sake of tech is a good idea in the classroom – it most certainly isn't. Instructional technology use should be driven by pedagogy and not the other way around. We keep that in focus here on EmergingEdTech as we explore various uses of technology in the instructional setting.
For those of you who are on your game with today's tech tools, give these a look anyway … you'll get a good laugh out of some of them!
Here's the list in plain text:
- You think that ‘mobile learning' is taking a field trip
- You don't make homework assignments or other important information available to students on a web page
- You don't even remember how to get to the web page your school provides you
- You think that ‘tweeting' is for the birds
- You think a Personal Learning Network is your television
- You think social media is just for teenagers and stay-at-home moms
- You think an iPad is someone's groovy apartment
- You believe an ‘electronic portfolio' is a briefcase full of CDs and software
- You wish you knew how to use your Blackberry better
- You think that ‘lecture capture' is what students do when they take notes
- You think that ‘digital learning' is something computers do
- You think Instagram is a new service from Western Union
- You think that Vine is something to swing on or pick grapes from
- You're surprised that most students don't use email
- You don't let your students use Wikipedia as a reference
- You glance around nervously and hold on to your desk when you hear the phrase “flipped classroom”
- You still have a modem (okay, really just kidding on that one – the only modems left out there are in museums right?)
- You think MySpace is cool
- You miss your typewriter
- You think ‘gamification' is what George W. Bush does when he plays Monopoly
If more than a few of these apply to you, you may be falling behind the times.
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