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What types of technology do you incorporate into your classrooms? How do you skirt around limited budgets to bring global technology to your students?
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
I read the national technology standards for students and teachers. I'm familiar with them and have read them all before, but I don't believe they're being satisfactorily met on a national level. I think teachers do the best they can with the funds available to them, but we as a nation are still far from where we need to be as far as technology education in our schools. I worry about our nation's students being able to compete on a global basis in the future.
Based on our class introductions last week (January 19th) not very many of us are using newer technology in our classrooms, mainly due to a lack of funding. Some of us have SmartBoards, but I think only one person said her school has iPads. If teachers can't meet the standards then students certainly can't. However, I believe teachers can and should definitely make up for deficits in actual equipment, though, through the use of thousands of web sites such as those referenced in Chapter 1 of "New Literacies." They can certainly avail themselves of such sites, take a class such as this one, attend a workshop on blogging or other technological activities, and so on.
What types of technology do you incorporate into your classrooms? How do you skirt around limited budgets to bring global technology to your students?
What types of technology do you incorporate into your classrooms? How do you skirt around limited budgets to bring global technology to your students?
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I left a comment about NETS in your next blog post about New Literacies. Basically, I stated, we are making progress in achieving the standards and that their broadness allows for lots of flexibility in how they are integrated. Based on your profile, I was wondering how you are integrating the standards in your position as an Education Specialist in a magnet school.
ReplyDeleteIn my classroom I have the SmartBoard and I take full advantage of using it to engage and enhance the critical thinking skills of my students. Recently my school has been working to register all students to google and I hope to utilize google docs. I hope to learn creative ways to incorporate google docs into my math class. Students have their kindles and ipads they can bring to class which hasn't been really discussed in my district, since many of the population cannot afford them. I let them use their tablets (if they have them) for number facts which is a quick and easy way to strengthen a weak skill when students have down time.
ReplyDeleteTo get around the limited budgets and funding, I think the key is to get teachers to know what free resources are out there the taking! There is so much the internet has to offer and many don't know about them, like many web 2.0 applications. Also there are many programs out there like comcast that help supply technology to families who qualify for free lunch.
In my classroom I have a SMARTBoard, document camera, netbooks, and an ipad that I use on a daily basis. All teachers has a classroom website and a google account. We have a technology specialist that comes into the classroom for lessons and works with each teacher individually on special projects. Most of the websites I use with my students are free. I agree with Christina that there are many free resources and activities that can be used even if budgets are limited.
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