Pre Work:
Compare the vision in this report to the current role of teachers in K12 education.
The vision in this report is that the classroom is eventually going to a totally immersed concept of technology in the classroom. The report talks about how the classroom is eventually going to go to an all “flipped” style with the teachers being the guides and mentors present in the classroom for the students to turn to. Currently in the classroom, it is still very much a traditional setting with minimal technology dispersed throughout. Teachers are using technology to help aid in creation of lesson plans much more so than before, but the majority of classrooms have yet to see any real integration of interactive technology being used in the classroom for the students access. Teachers are still seen as the “encyclopedia of knowledge” for the classroom, although we “google” for anything outside of a school setting. In the report, it talks about how students will be self-learners and take responsibility for informing themselves of knowledge prior to class and classroom time be spent on developing ideas and growing through their guides based on what they educated themselves on.
Compare the vision in this report to the current role of teachers in K12 education.
The vision in this report is that the classroom is eventually going to a totally immersed concept of technology in the classroom. The report talks about how the classroom is eventually going to go to an all “flipped” style with the teachers being the guides and mentors present in the classroom for the students to turn to. Currently in the classroom, it is still very much a traditional setting with minimal technology dispersed throughout. Teachers are using technology to help aid in creation of lesson plans much more so than before, but the majority of classrooms have yet to see any real integration of interactive technology being used in the classroom for the students access. Teachers are still seen as the “encyclopedia of knowledge” for the classroom, although we “google” for anything outside of a school setting. In the report, it talks about how students will be self-learners and take responsibility for informing themselves of knowledge prior to class and classroom time be spent on developing ideas and growing through their guides based on what they educated themselves on.
Check for Understanding:Read the Poor Stephen Case Study supplied in class (in Powerpoint presentation) , and using concepts from Module One, discuss why he failed. I expect at least three Paragraphs and I expect you to use at least three (3) concepts from class for your answer
I believe the Poor Stephen case study had many factors that contributed to the firing, I will focus on three points we discussed that I found to be most relevant. In the public education system, where every dollar spent is constantly scrutinized, when spending millions of taxpayer funding, people want results quickly. Stephen like many others in his same predicament, are still waiting for those results to come in, while now without jobs. One of the biggest dilemmas we face when trying to introduce a new concept into an age-old model like the education system, is how to do it. The education system knows it needs to evolve with the times, but how? It seems that what has worked in the past, and because of cases like this, introducing some huge new concept all at once, especially when it comes to technology is not the case. As the power point states, there is a difference in reinventing schools vs. modernizing schools, and the latter is key. By trying to reinvent the wheel, this is where people are getting burned. As a teacher in training, I don’t believe the 1-1 will ever fully work as it was envisioned, but if we had gone into introducing the technology gradually into the classroom, and growing the numbers each year, perhaps jobs would have been spared. There are way too many technological advancements over the years to remember them all, but with every new upgrade comes the hype cycle, and only the lucky few concepts survive. We soon forget about ideas that didn’t pan out, or they are forever placed in a textbook or case study to learn from. The 1-1 concept will be one of those ideas that serve as a reminder of ideas that never escaped the trough of disillusionment. I don’t think the iPad itself is going anywhere, and I see many uses for it in the classroom, my cooperating teacher uses hers almost everyday within it. The concept of 1-1 is one that seems great in theory, but just didn’t pan out, and no one bothered to spend the time exploring this theory in smaller doses before going all in. Because of this reason, people like Stephen were fired. I believe the biggest reason, that Stephan and many others like him were fired, as a result of these purchases was there was no implementation beyond the purchase. There wasn’t any training or enough training for teachers to see the need and benefit of having this added technology in the classroom, so they became really expensive paperweights. Teachers have so many responsibilities and “to do’s” each day in the classroom they are trying to manage, if a real value is not shown with any of these add-ons that are thrown at them, there wont be the desire to incorporate it to have its intended effect.
I believe the Poor Stephen case study had many factors that contributed to the firing, I will focus on three points we discussed that I found to be most relevant. In the public education system, where every dollar spent is constantly scrutinized, when spending millions of taxpayer funding, people want results quickly. Stephen like many others in his same predicament, are still waiting for those results to come in, while now without jobs. One of the biggest dilemmas we face when trying to introduce a new concept into an age-old model like the education system, is how to do it. The education system knows it needs to evolve with the times, but how? It seems that what has worked in the past, and because of cases like this, introducing some huge new concept all at once, especially when it comes to technology is not the case. As the power point states, there is a difference in reinventing schools vs. modernizing schools, and the latter is key. By trying to reinvent the wheel, this is where people are getting burned. As a teacher in training, I don’t believe the 1-1 will ever fully work as it was envisioned, but if we had gone into introducing the technology gradually into the classroom, and growing the numbers each year, perhaps jobs would have been spared. There are way too many technological advancements over the years to remember them all, but with every new upgrade comes the hype cycle, and only the lucky few concepts survive. We soon forget about ideas that didn’t pan out, or they are forever placed in a textbook or case study to learn from. The 1-1 concept will be one of those ideas that serve as a reminder of ideas that never escaped the trough of disillusionment. I don’t think the iPad itself is going anywhere, and I see many uses for it in the classroom, my cooperating teacher uses hers almost everyday within it. The concept of 1-1 is one that seems great in theory, but just didn’t pan out, and no one bothered to spend the time exploring this theory in smaller doses before going all in. Because of this reason, people like Stephen were fired. I believe the biggest reason, that Stephan and many others like him were fired, as a result of these purchases was there was no implementation beyond the purchase. There wasn’t any training or enough training for teachers to see the need and benefit of having this added technology in the classroom, so they became really expensive paperweights. Teachers have so many responsibilities and “to do’s” each day in the classroom they are trying to manage, if a real value is not shown with any of these add-ons that are thrown at them, there wont be the desire to incorporate it to have its intended effect.
Ways to Integrate technology into the classroom as a Teacher:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech176.shtml
http://www.teachhub.com/12-easy-ways-use-technology-your-classroom-even-technophobic-teachers
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech176.shtml
http://www.teachhub.com/12-easy-ways-use-technology-your-classroom-even-technophobic-teachers