I have been on a mission to find high school teachers (specifically math teachers) using cell phones and other handheld personal devices in productive ways in their classrooms to engage students and hopefully increase achievement. If any of my Cohort 10 classmates come across videos or examples of teachers doing this, could you please share the link here on my blog, or email me any video links...thanks!!
After reading through the TPACK and ACOT material, I realized the area of most need for me is to improve and/or grow my methods and practices of using technology in my classroom in productive ways. Mishra & Koehler called this pedagogical technology knowledge (PTK) and it’s the “knowledge of the existence, components and capabilities of various technologies as they are used in teaching and learning settings, and conversely, knowing how teaching might change as the result of using particular technologies.” So….what does it mean to me? I have to be comfortable enough with my content, inside and out, that I can have the ability to know where quality infusion of technology would benefit my students. In addition...the resource of time is definitely underplayed in this article...having the time to explore new technologies, or how current technologies are being used by other teachers successfully, takes up an enormous amount of time. Switching gears slightly the video that I chose was of a high school English teacher using cell phones to gather data from her students about the lesson they had the day before: A. What is the nature of the case?
B. Share some descriptive details
C. What new and useful information did you learn?
D. Could you potentially use this lesson?
Rate the film experience: 4
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Autumn Duarte
6/28/2016 06:18:20 pm
Great post! The video sounds like it would be of interest to me. Although I currently teach 1st grade, I also have secondary credentials. In one of my secondary student teaching experiences the teacher allowed students to use their phones similarly to this. They were also allowed to look up websites and do research on their phones. I thought this was an awesome way of getting the students on board with the assignments, provided there was an agreement with consequences if the phones were not used for their intended purposes.
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