These two videos show how it is possible to utilize text, images, and audio when sharing information. With eBooks and other online educational sources, the use of images and audio along with text can be found to enhance the delivery of a message. As educators of this day and age, we should do more than share our words and documented factoids with our students. We must learn to utilize multimedia to bring our students to a level of understanding that may have been out of reach with just the words of an educator. I also believe that students will begin to grow with the technology of the age. With this growth, I believe that the students will become increasingly more capable with technology. They will not simply write in print. They will share their words with the world. They will utilize multimedia to fill in the gaps when sharing with the world. Just in case text alone is not getting across to my readers, I will so kind as give an example. Opposed to simply saying that there once was a dog... and let that be the end of it. I could share the text and this adorable picture. (Yeah, I bet you were wondering why there was a picture of a puppy up there.)
2. Chipper and EDM310 for Dummies
Both of these videos utilize creativity when trying to get a message across to the viewers. They use real life progression as a means of bring the message across to the viewer in terms that he or she may relate to, understand, and remember. The Chipper video shows how procrastination and denying personal educational responsibility can lead a student astray. In the end, it is made clear that all Chipper needed to get through it was to work harder and be more dedicated to her work. The second video shows how frustrating it can be if one is trying to go through the course with no foreknowledge of which will be called for in the class. The students had to apply themselves and learn about the various tools utilized throughout the course. Both of these videos exemplify how difficult it can be if one expects everything to come naturally to him or her in this course. The student must work hard and be dedicated to learning and applying him/herself to make it through not just EDM310 but also school in general.
3. Critiques of Smartboards
Why Smartboards are a Dumb Initiative and Why I Hate Interactive Whiteboards argue against the instilation and use of Smartboards (in case you couldn't tell by their titles). They both argue that the Smartboard is just a tech version of "stand-and-deliver instruction." The educational tool does not make delivering the lessons any easier for the teacher. It doesn't make learning the lessons any easier for the students. And the functions it preforms are not innovative or unique among other technological devices or educational tools. It may cost more and give people something to try and figure out for a while. If one really thinks about it, the Smartboard is just the unnecessary technological offspring of tools and devices that work just fine and are still functional in the classroom.
Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom argues for the use of such tools in the classroom. It not only lists a variety of brands and tells what these devices can do but also highlights special situations in which these devices can enhance the teaching-learning progress of the classroom. For example, because the Smartboard does not require the instructor to use a pen these instructors have free hands to do other things. In the case of teach deaf students, the teacher will be able to communicate with the students without a pen hindering the lecture.
Why Smartboards are a Dumb Initiative and Why I Hate Interactive Whiteboards argue against the instilation and use of Smartboards (in case you couldn't tell by their titles). They both argue that the Smartboard is just a tech version of "stand-and-deliver instruction." The educational tool does not make delivering the lessons any easier for the teacher. It doesn't make learning the lessons any easier for the students. And the functions it preforms are not innovative or unique among other technological devices or educational tools. It may cost more and give people something to try and figure out for a while. If one really thinks about it, the Smartboard is just the unnecessary technological offspring of tools and devices that work just fine and are still functional in the classroom.
Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom argues for the use of such tools in the classroom. It not only lists a variety of brands and tells what these devices can do but also highlights special situations in which these devices can enhance the teaching-learning progress of the classroom. For example, because the Smartboard does not require the instructor to use a pen these instructors have free hands to do other things. In the case of teach deaf students, the teacher will be able to communicate with the students without a pen hindering the lecture.
But are you for or against smartboards? The idea that it can help one teach a deaf person if fine but they didnt want to mention that no pen is needed with a prjector either. You can simply make a slideshow and click a mouse once everywhile, or even better pick a student each day to do it. I understand that people are always going to find reasons to be for or against things but smartboards truly do nothing that a projector can't. So which one did you agree with more?
ReplyDeleteExcellent post Ann-Marie!
ReplyDeleteThese EDM 310 videos have a general theme, the learner is in charge of their own learning learning. As an EDM 310 student you must be open minded, ready to try new things, willing to take the time, able to manage the time, willing to collaborate, and ready to learn a lot. Students must embrace this course and avoid getting behind at all costs. It all begins with the right attitude and that is a simple choice, to take charge of your own learning. SS