July 2008
7 posts
"technology = happiness" →
This is an interesting blog discussion about how integrating technology into the classroom really helps to increase student involvement. One of the things we’ve been discussing is how to increase student investment in their own learning. By brining technology into the classroom, we make it fun and interesting for our students to learn. By making it fun and interesting, we are bringing...
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
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– http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=92
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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...
“While the geometric progression of advances in computer technology has resulted...”
– The Significance of Louise Rosenblatt (via paulallison)
I couldn’t agree more - it seems so simple when she presents it, yet so profound.
Ubiquity - Maybe Not
These are the 10 personal questions that immediately popped into my head:
How am I going to remember all the stuff I’m learning?
What am I going to do with all the stuff I’m learning?
Will I be able to use all the stuff I’m learning?
How can I communicate better with all the stuff I’ve learned?
Will I feel rested when I go back to work in September (well, really...