Monday 20 July 2015

Vera's reflection from AM session

I had a good reminder of why we should integrate technology into teaching and learning. The reality that students thrive in now is different. Technology is now a way of life and schools cannot just "try" and catch up. Schools have to be relevant and make learning authentic for students. If we want students to learn with technology, we must first know what that entails and show them.

2 comments:

  1. I think integrating technology into T&L has never been absent in our conversations. Believe it's just the definitions that have changed. I recall how integrating technology merely meant adding online resources to supplement SOW... don't quite know if this perception has changed over time. I find that the need for technology has always been inherent, problem is we never know how to cos we don't know what it looks like. Frankly, I am more and more convinced that our teachers are not really playing catch-up, they actually know, but perhaps the need for it is not compelling enough. What then should change??

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  2. Agree with you, Vera. Showing the way for our teachers to experience the affordance of technology is as impt, if not more impt than telling. Afterall, we learning from role modelling is one powerful strategy that we can use to make our thinking explicit.

    "We must acknowledge... that the most imptpt, indeed the only thing we have to offer our students is ourselves. Everything else they can read a book." - D C Tosteson

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