Making The Most Of Web-Based Teaching ToolsPragmatic issues and concerns

Technology – love it or hate it

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P7u-BhLW7c

usefulness

ease of use

misuse

The usefulness of technology is about…

◦much more than how many bells and whistles we can add to the classroom. It’s about…

empowering the learner. encouraging students to see

learning means more than rote memorization.

exploring and realizing multiple pathways to knowledge.

(Armstrong and Yetter-Vassot, 1994)

◦much more than how many bells and whistles we can add to the classroom. It’s about…

empowering the learner. encouraging students to see

learning means more than rote memorization.

exploring and realizing multiple pathways to knowledge.

(Armstrong and Yetter-Vassot, 1994)

The misuse of technology often stems from the fact that…innovation is inhibited by

dominant cultural beliefs about teaching, learning, and the nature of knowledge and about the way schools are organized for instruction.

(Cuban, 1993)

The goalposts keep moving

A principled approach…Acceptability: students willing to

use itCost: value for moneyUsefulness: reinforce learning

objectivesTime: quick to adapt and apply in

practiceEase of use: intuitive to learn and

do

Acceptability: students willing to use it

Cost: value for moneyUsefulness: reinforce learning

objectivesTime: quick to adapt and apply in

practiceEase of use: intuitive to learn and

do

Students have their say…

Effectiveness in terms of your own learning…

Social networkingApplying the technology of the

day to add relevance to learning

North Cyprus: Year 7 (aged 13-14)How long have you had a

FACEBOOK account?

North Cyprus: Year 7 (aged 13-14)How often do you use your

mobile phone to access 0.facebook.com?

To friend or not to friend…

Social media: students as consumers

My YouTube channel

GOOGLE library

Authorstream

Social constructivism

The land of digital immigrants

MOODLE

Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff

DIIGO

GOOGLE Sites

Technology I don’t use

Interactive whiteboard

http://www.ideapaint.com/blog/bid/48162/IdeaPaint-vs-Traditional-Whiteboards

A brave new world?

A digital tapestry

Tools mentionedhttp://facebook.comhttp://books.google.com/googlebooks/mylibr

ary/

http://authorstream.comhttp://youtube.comhttp://moodle.orghttp://diigo.comhttp://sites.google.comhttp://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/

A few tools to explorehttp://edmodo.comhttp://www.rcampus.com/http://voicethread.comhttp://animoto.com/educationhttp://slideshare.com

http://authorstream.com http://www.archive.org/http://podomatic and

http://voxopop.com http://www.apple.com/education/itune

s-u/

http://twitter.com and http://visibletweets.com

References Armstrong, K. L. & Yetter-Vassot. C. (1994).

‘Transforming teaching through technology’. Foreign Language Annals, 27/4, 475–486

Rego, B. (2009). Teacher's Guide to Using Facebook (Read Fullscreen). Scribd. Retrieved April 10, 2011, from http://www.scribd.com/doc/16957158/Teachers-Guide-to-Using-Facebook-Read-Fullscreen

Cuban, L. (1993). Computers Meet Classroom: Classroom Wins. Teachers College Record 95/2, pp. 185-210. Retrieved from http://sdexter.net/xyz/CompMeets%20Classroom.pdf

Poitras, G. (n.d.). Notes on Luddites and Neo-luddites. Retrieved from http://www.sfu.ca/~poitras/luddites.pdf

Images http://www.threedonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/ost

rich-head-in-sand-sign.gif [ostrtich]

http://www.glimakrausa.com/images/tapestry-line-draw.jpg [loom]

http://www.flora.ca/gavel.jpg [Mikey mouse smashing a computer]

http://blaugh.com/cartoons/060901_kindergarten_wifi.gif [first day of school, no wifi]

http://images.cloud.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/0410/05/1_176c221dacb266620b28a8bb878c726f.jpg [wall phone]

http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/MacFormat/MAC%20228/MAC228.show_feat.ipad_classroom083_1-420-90.jpg [iPads in classrooms]

http://www.fountainmagazine.com/images/sub/48/48_42.jpg [constructivism]

http://etcjournal.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/audiovideo.jpg [microphone]

http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/file.php/20/moodle_nw_access.jpg [moodle]

Postscript: aspirations of a teacher-in-trainingOn the following slide you will

see a comment from a discussion in one of our Facebook groups from a teacher-in-training about to graduate and look for a job teaching.

Note that the desire to use Web2.0 tools isn’t technology-driven. It’s based on providing the best learning experience possible in and outside the class.

A teacher-in-training writes about using Facebook in teaching:I hope that I can have this experience

because i really want to use such [Web2.0] tools if i will be a teacher. Because I had difficulties of not doing exercises in classrooms hocam. When i was in high school, we, as all students, wanted teacher to do some practise to understand the subject better, but our teacher responded as we didn't have time to do so as he needed to catch up the syllabus. Therefore, i don't want my students to encounter such problems.