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What Tech Ideas Do Pre-Service Teachers
Need?SAGE - Oct. 19, 2012
Dr. R Redekopp University of Manitoba
The 'Toolbox'
Criteria
•free
•web based (not download and install)
•easy to use
•easy to share
The 'Toolbox'
For the teacher:
•PLN stuff - twitter, RSS, social bookmarking
•Managing stuff - Google Docs / MS SkyDrive
•Communication to students and parents - blogs, wikis, web sites
•Managed systems - Edmodo, Schoology
The 'Toolbox'
For the teacher:
•creation of multimedia items - video, audio, image manipulation, mash-ups
•posting the above on their web presence
•add to a class collection of information (wiki or otherwise)
•use of the darned IWB
The 'Toolbox'
For the student:
•creation of multimedia items - video, audio, image manipulation, mash-ups
•posting the above on their web presence
•add to a class collection of information (wiki or otherwise)
•Quick and easy response sites
BIG Ideas
McLuhan, Barney, Turkle, Ellul
•how does the technology use us?
•what is the underlying message of technology?
•'The medium IS the message'
•Technology and democracy
BIG Ideas
Pedagogy vs Hype
•When to use
•When to set aside
•Engagement is necessary, but not sufficient
•Where's the research?
•Will tech use help learning?
BIG Ideas
From Facts to Thinking to Wisdom
•Google is a fact machine - useless unless we move students to "Bloom"
•Stepping back to ponder / contextualize facts
•FInding Big Ideas and Big Questions
BIG Ideas
Social Issues
•More connected and more isolated
•Social, classroom and digital etiquette
•Think before you post
•Cyber-bullying
BIG Ideas
Environmental Issues
•Mining of rare earth materials
•Manufacturing conditions
•Toxic chemicals
•Designed for the Dump / Can't fix
•eWaste / recycling
Questions?
There is no Silver Bullet (or Lone Ranger) to solve all problems
All answers being with
"It depends ...