Raeann Carmen had this link on her webpage, but I thought I would give a little testimonial - Cramberry is a app of the iphone, ipad or itouch that teacher and students can use to study flashcards. Who knew flashcards could make it to the digital age. I set these up for my body boot camp class and the kids actually used their phones to study..... they did great. They are using the app to complete their next assignment and told me that they loved this app.
Here is our group podcast.
The affects of media violence our the youth of our country is under review in several studies. Is the amount of view violence by children today have an adverse affect on their perceptions of what is right and wrong?
This website has © 2010 Center for Media Literacy, www.medialit.com has great ideas for teaching about violance in media. Check it out
http://www.medialit.org/beyond-blame-challenging-violence-media
I just found this great website called the Media Awareness Network. This
link takes you to a page on how advertisers market children. The part about pestering power is very interesting. Advertisers have found that it is easy to target children with their advertising and then have them pester their parents into purchasing things for them. They even broke it down into two types of nagging, "persistence nagging" and "importance nagging." Persistence nagging is just repeated nagging, while importance nagging is when children try to convince their parents that they "need" the item. It is important that parents are aware that their children are being targeted by advertisers for this reason. They need to educate their children about the advertising as well as not fall for the power of pestering.
I always wonder why the powers that be in the educational setting want us to
incorporate technology into our curriculum and lock down the technology so it is
virtually impossible to use. I find it frustrating when I go to use a computer to access a cool educational video or lesson and the computer is locked from the site and needs administrative approval to download anything that the program may need to run. With one tech person and 95 teachers I'm pretty sure running down to PE land is not a top priority.
Recently I was speaking with a colleague about the challenges on integrating technology in to the classroom. The underlying theme of our difficulties was that about of prep work, planning, and even creativity required to plan such a lesson. I am not always that patient with myself.
I hope this blog can be a place for educators to share their thought in technology in education. While we may post to lament about the inevitable issues that can arise, think cheating, cyber-bulling, copyright infringement, plagiarism, etc., this blog is also intended to be a place to share inspiration. I hope this blog will come became a place to share any and all ideas- from how to help integrate technology into lessons, to how to teach students to use it effectively .
Here is idea number one: Recently a teacher in my department started using the
TI-83 SmartView. This amazing software allows you to project a giant image of the calculator on your projector so that you can instruct students how to use all of the calculators features. Generally I find when I am trying to do a lesson that requires me to teach the use of features of the graphing calculator, I waste 10 or 15 minutes running around the room trying to show students the right buttons and menu algorithms. The SmartView will surely save time, and allow me to get to "meat" of my lesson. I will be implementing this software into my room next week, so I'll be sure to post a follow up post on whether it's improved the efficiency of using the graphing calculator during lessons.
