Posts Tagged ‘technology integration’
iPhone/iPod Touch university
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 11, 2009
It’s been a year since I first heard of Abilene Christian University (ACU) providing iPhones or iPod Touches for students. The link to the Chronicle article in my blog entry then seems to be broken now, but ACU still has the information up on its Website.
The Chronicle and Wired have revisited the programme at ACU. [...]
It’s context, not isolation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 27, 2009
I found this Vimeo video from a ReadWriteWeb article, You Can’t Squeeze Knowledge From a Pixel.
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It has little to do with education. However, it reminded me of something I try to emphasize in the ICT course that I facilitate and am now harping on in the EdPsyII course. What makes learning meaningful is context, [...]
Netbooks in primary school
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 30, 2009
Thanks to a Tuck Soon, I discovered a my paper article yesterday on how some North Vista Primary School students were using netbooks.
Click the image above to see a larger version.
I am glad and mad for a couple of reasons. First, the reasons why I am glad.
I have written about netbooks before, the earliest almost [...]
Alan November on integrating technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 29, 2009
Here is a video offering interesting perspectives on technology integration in schools. Here are my takeaways…
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Alan November believes that schools are using the Internet mostly for information instead of collaboration. He also added that the biggest barrier is not teaching teachers how to use technology but for them to shift control to students. Students [...]
Twelve essentials for technology integration
Posted by: ashleytan on: June 27, 2009
Thanks to Twitter, I’ve discovered another useful resource for teachers. I don’t agree that they are Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration, but they certainly are useful!
I’ve added this resource to the list of things that I ask my teacher trainees to teach one another.
Pedagogy before technology
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 29, 2009
This New York Times article highlights an important concept: Pedagogy before technology.
The physics department at MIT decided to do away with traditional lectures. Why? Attendance was low and failure rates were high.
Instead, they replaced the lectures with “smaller classes that emphasize(d) hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning” and the attendance has gone up while the failure rate [...]
Technology integration is important
Posted by: ashleytan on: January 10, 2009
One of the blogs I read regularly via RSS is Kapp Notes. Karl Kapp recently blogged about being at the ICT Educator Conference where Jon Burgess, a speaker from Apple, gave a keynote speech.
According to Kapp, Burgess was critical of the typical classroom:
He spoke a great deal about the disconnect between student technology expectations and [...]
Technology use vs. integration
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 22, 2008
This blog entry by Dawson perfectly summarizes the essential differences between technology USE and technology INTEGRATION.
From my point of view, it is easy (and educationally less worthwhile) to use technology. But it is more challenging (but educationally more meaningful) to integrate it into curricula.
This is a point former colleagues and I used to emphasize [...]
Addressing issues 3
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 14, 2008
I have not forgotten that there were two more issues that my preservice teachers raised at the beginning of the course. (Here is the list of the original six). I have waited till now to address them because of the nature of the questions.
The last two issues were:
If students, particularly the poorer ones, do not [...]
