Here is my my video for Digital Textbooks and the changing classroom. The speaker I am iintroducing is Matt Miller. He has a great blog, "Ditch that Textbook" where he shares ideas of how to meet your students with technology and to find the balance between the traditional and technology.
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As I look over the different technologies that are available
for distance education, I am assessing on how I use these same technologies in
my classroom full of middle school students.
Even though my main teaching practice is face to face, I am finding that
I am shifting toward more technology based information and communication with
my students. There are many reasons that
I have shifted to more technology base, one major one is the fact that my
textbooks are 14 years old and even though the basis of science remains the
same, there are always new discoveries that change the way we view
science. I have to be able to keep up
with these changes and let my students know about the changes and how it
affects their lives and our learning process.
Another reason is the fact that students are now “digital natives” and
approximately 98% of my students have a computer and internet at home available
for their use and use it on a daily basis.
Our school is in the process of becoming a total 1:1 building and I cannot
be left behind my students on how I find and process information. Students now days are used to finding information
on YouTube and other short clips of information and to reach my students, I
have to make sure that I incorporate this style so that my students can
continue processing information in a way that they use on a daily basis. The days of learning from static sources is
fast being left behind.
References:
McGreal, R., & Elliott, M. (2008). Technologies of
online learning (e-learning). In T. Anderson (Ed.), The theory and practice of
online learning (2nd ed., pp. 143-165). Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University
Press.
