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Using technology... you're humanizing the classroom? I'm afraid...not at all
The project is really good but I suppose it should be controlled...
What do you think?
"So once again, using technology, not just flipping the classroom, you're humanizing the classroom, I'd argue, by a factor of five or 10."
**I recommend also: http://intraspec.ca/CarrGoogle2008.pdf **
Clayton Irby
Scott Armstrong 50+
In my experience, digital technology in classrooms is heinously expensive and fraught with bugs.
I'm not convinced that digital technology has any great strength beyond 'everybody's doing it'.
Jon Ho
As to the problem of students copying and pasting their project or homeworks, the problem is easy to solve. Simple tell them that you have a homework or projects database, and if you find out that if they copied their homework or projects from the internet per se, they will either fail the course or hand in TWICE as many homeworks or projects. If you find out that they handed in another copied source, their workload will be DOUBLED again and again, until they give up and failed the course, or actually do it properly.
Patrick King 30+
The discussion of how technology can be used in education is not a discussion about smart-phones being distracting, plagiarism being bad, nor web-browsing affecting how we think. All of those issues will remain regardless of whether or not the proposed technological developments in education go forward.
Just to re-iterate what Khan actually said, it was that teachers can get students to watch lectures at home in video format, in an environment where they can pause and rewind when confused. Then teachers don't have to give one-size fits all lectures in class, instead they have more time to discuss questions, go through exercises and organise project work. More time to actually interact with students instead of just lecturing.
george lockwood 30+
Edwin Nazarian 10+
The technology was thought to be an effective way of teaching and learning process.
Indeed it can be in some ways (such as for long distance learning and teaching)
but in classroom, it can be destructive. some students are smarter in hi tech than their students.
and this sometimes makes the student feel superior and not accept learning from the teacher.
but when it comes to a one to one conversation or sharing an opinion in the classroom (say about Modern Slavery)
there are only very few who can participate.
yet I am not saying about their reading speed (which in some cases doesn't reach 100 words per minutes)
if you try to check the nowadays' essays and the essays written before Google you will notice a great deal of differences. my students go for copy/past option - which is fast and easy. and when you read it you know it is not
their on words. they are never going to be able to write such a complex sentences when you hear them talking.
so I don't use hi tech / videos / audios / etc - but mere pen and paper and one to one talk
to make sure they can keep and maintain eye contact when they are not in front of PC.
Saludos
Derly Johanna Barreto
Edwin Nazarian 10+
Thanks, I have copied it, will read it the sooner I can
cheers
Lars Mews
Outside situations like that i see no negative side, because if you read a text from a book or a tablet computer does not change much-still the same text. And i do not think the inability to have a conversation has started with google or the internet, that phenomenon existed at all times. At least i doubt that before google any conversation was of high quality.
Edwin Nazarian 10+
Thanks for giving your time to comment here.
Surely I know what's going on with they essays. this is not the only issue at school.
in early 90s not a school student has a cell phone in their pockets in the classroom. - how was the quality of attention?
10 years later almost every student had a cell phone. - how was the quality of attention?
now , since 2010 every student has a smartphone in their pocket and every one is connected to certain social network - is there any attention to chat teacher is talking about? - I would dare to say:
Less or none at all.
book vs tablet - say I am a teacher in my 50s (which I am not still) and I am having hard time to use computer and here I get the iPad and I have no idea how to use it.
(first they would teach me how to use, if I don't learn they won't give it to me)
That would make me ridiculous in front of the class. in this case kids will think I know nothing so I can teach anything.
there are pros and cons using hi tech at school - I agree it should keep up with time as students depend it.
I interviewed a few teachers, young and elder ones.
the young teachers weren't use to write on blackboard (and their writings was unreadable in most cases) but they were good at using smartboards - it does everything for them.
the elder teachers had no problem with writing on blackboard (ad it was readable in most cases) but they couldn't get into smartboard.
nowadays, we can't expect to have Einsteins, Sheakspeares, Nashes, Tolstoys etc, we can have
IT programmers / app writers /and whatever there is / etc
PS: a week ago I met a new teacher, his first years to teach, he was preparing some exercises for his first class, Guess what he was doing?! Copying from Google, it was easy than use his brain to write 10 sentences
Lars Mews
And if a teacher will just copy and paste, i would pay him that way-the same, like the students get, nothing. On the other hand, i do not remember any teacher who did something else than copy and paste-just that they took copies from books, or just worked one time and then copied their work every new class and year.
I think we need to think about what schools (not universities, that is diffrent) are good for and why we have them-at first, we have them to teach reading and writing. Everything that comes after was done because of the fact that the information could not be carried around that easily like today. Today you do not necessarily need to have history lessons, it is enough that you can read and acess the internet.
I guess schools are a little demasked nowadays, as the time has come were it is obvious that the value we have wrongly put in them is not that big. Most of all that what we "learn" throughout school years vanishes right after we leave school-that was like that at all times. But today we can acess all of this information without schools, if we want and need to.
So maybe we should say bye to school system of the past, and welcome a more present orientated system? How that looks i do not know, but the old system will vanish, that is for sure. It already does, as you see in your young teacher-he will not make a lifetime as a teacher this way, once his students found out he copies from google, they will not notice him being in the room or not anymore.
Edwin Nazarian 10+
do you know that today, in many European countries teachers has no rights to forbid anything ?
if you dare to say X that you students didn't like that may cost your career.
why many young people wants to be teachers and not miners / builders / drivers / cleaners?
It is clean job, got all weekends, long holidays, guaranteed income - just shut up and spend your time.
and it is easy to blame students that they are not paying attention at school.
Derly Johanna Barreto
Thanks for your comments.
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Having students watch a video at home while discussing in school is surely better than having them watch a video at school and not discussing at school, but the latter is nothing like the way classtime is handled anywhere, to my knowledge. It is very far from best practice, but more importantly, very far from common practice.
But I don't see how it follows from this that watching videos at home should be curtailed.
Modern learning theory would seriously challenge, however, all this emphasis on lecture. Best practices suggest an inquiry classroom without much talking at students as part of the mix, EITHER by a lecturer in the classroom OR by a video at home.