1-2. After our first day of class, I am starting to get some good ideas of how I can integrate technology into my classroom. One thing that has challenged me a little bit is that it is easy for me to just expect my students to conform to my teaching practices. I have always known, but at times tried to ignore the fact that students learn best when teaching is done in a way that plays towards their own strengths.
3. Right now I am still most interested in setting up a moodle page for my class. I see this as a very useful tool that will help my students and I in the classes I teach. I'm also interested in the wordle tool and how I could use that in my classes to see what students are doing well with and where they could still use some help.
4. I am looking forward to learning the ins and outs of each of the webtools in this class and how they can help my teaching.
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I think you're right about needing to play to students' strengths; as we have seen today, technology is definitely a strength. I think teachers, all teachers, get too proud sometimes and believe that they know best and the students need to conform simply because, well, we're the teacher.
ReplyDeleteI recently was fortunate to learn of the amazing opportunities Moodle provides after some great hesitation, while I have not employed my site for my students yet, I am excited to put it in play this September. I would be happy to help you as much as I can as well as getting your ideas for how to use it effectively in the science classroom.