Posts Tagged ‘technology integration’
Ranting at rants
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 30, 2011
Barely a month goes by without a blogger or a journalist saying that we should reconsider providing students with technology because it does not improve test scores. These reports might take the form of research reviews or newsworthy articles [example]. by Simon Cocks But let us call a spade a spade. Many of those blog [...]
There is no more debate
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 22, 2011
by Inubleachanimefan To the tech luddites I say: There is no more debate on whether technology should be infused, integrated or embedded into education. There is a saying in Singapore: If you don’t study hard, you will fail. If you do study hard, you may pass. Applying this to educational technology, I say that if you don’t [...]
Testing times, playing times
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 6, 2011
by dieselbug2007 I read this NYT article and I loved this response by Cathy Davidson. One of the main ideas of the NYT article was that the push to adopt various technologies was not leading to higher test scores. One of Davidson’s responses was that we should not be integrating technology to raise test scores but to promote meaningful [...]
Time-lapse Milky Way
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 4, 2011
Video source I love watching the products of time-lapse photography because of the planning and patience that it requires and the spectacular products that might result. Such photography helps us see and experience things that we cannot in real time. I think that is how technology should be used in learning: To help us learn what [...]
Awesome foursome?
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 13, 2011
Video source This is the threesome that a certain Singapore foursome copied (but failed to give credit to) during a certain televised charity drive. Four chords, many songs. Seems awesome, but it’s not that difficult if you are a musician. It’s the same for technology integration. You don’t need lots of technology. You just need [...]
Tools of our trade
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 20, 2010
This is a rant. Background: Every semester we will get feedback from student teachers that they don’t learn enough technology from our ICT course even though tutors emphasize that the course is about technology-mediated pedagogy instead. Every semester tutors will say they have no time to pack these tools or TELs (technology enabled learning) into [...]
Explaining water to a fish
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 10, 2010
That is a phrase that jumped out at me as I read a blog entry on how a school had implemented e-portfolios. It had a plan for doing this from kindergarten to 12th grade. by bensonkua The description for 7th grade was: Since all students and teachers have 1 to 1 laptops, that raises the [...]
Questions on ICT in Education
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 15, 2010
[image source, used under CC licence] In reviewing the work of Howard Rheingold and Neil Postman, this blogger mentions six questions educators might consider when bringing technology into lessons. I am led by two main questions, neither of which is on the list. 1. What technologies are students already using and how can we leverage [...]
The Office, The Class
Posted by: ashleytan on: February 12, 2010
Video source This tongue-in-cheek video is a look at technology use in the higher ed classroom and done in the style of the US version of The Office. Ah, the disconnect between technology and pedagogy! I’d classify this as Comedy and “Horror”; it’s funny and “scary” at the same time! But it also offers lots of [...]
Push, pull or attract?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 28, 2009
Clay Burell’s blog entry On Using Technology Without Understanding It is a longish read, but I think he makes a point. I was more interested in what led up to him saying this about getting teachers to use technology: I’ve been in this world long enough to believe that we can’t push the reluctant to [...]
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