How we have moved on from the 3 Rs
Most teachers are not using technology in their teaching. Why do you think that is? These are all hard things to do. What one is the hardest and why? To find the technologies To learn to use the technologies To incorporate the technologies into your teaching Can you suggest ways of making these things easier for teachers?
Do you know what a tweetup is? Do you have a Facebook account with more than a 100 friends? Have you made any 5 or more friends on the internet? Do you check your emails from your phone? Do you follow more than five blogs a day? Do you download podcasts from iTunes? Do you get most of your information from Twitter? Do you know what an RSS feed is? Have you got a blog or a website?
Searching and finding information Evaluating Mixing Using technologies that deal with sound, text, visuals Interpersonal literacy ( communication, networking, sharing)
So much to teach/tool much to teach Lack of “thinking out of the box” ie one tool one idea. Too much attention on certain tools that the media finds interesting ( Second Life). Lack of real understanding of the new literacies and how to exploit them ( ideas still emerging) Not enough teacher trainers versed in Web 2.0 Education falling behind Teachers being not being techcomfy
Techeducationalists need to focus more on teachers needs rather than displaying their knowledge to the rest of the tech community Government must avoid the traps of the “media driven” interests More emphasis on the stages that teachers go through ( anxiety to comfort/control to freedom).
http://www.slidefinder.net/b/beyond_the_book/6521 014 Review of from Blogs to Bombs http://www.eduworlds.co.uk/2010/02/reviewfromblogst