Ways WE can Use Technology to Help Learning
Here are some resources that can help implement technology into the classroom! Just click the titles.
A New Way to Lecture - how to incorporate social media into your lesson plans
Media Smarts - has teacher resources such as lesson plans, games, information about types of social media
A New Way to Lecture - how to incorporate social media into your lesson plans
Media Smarts - has teacher resources such as lesson plans, games, information about types of social media
GenerationPulse - a youth development program that uses social media to engage youth; using social media; the title is linked to an article about this program and the lessons they have learned
Conceptual Framework - switching from the traditional ways of using the web to using the web within the classroom to adapt to the way students learn and communicate and to provide opportunities to use their new desired competencies with technology; title is linked to the article and below is an excerpt from it:
The third aspect of Web 2.0 is interactivity-...Blogs, wikis, video-sharing, photo-sharing, and audio-sharing sites can engage students in promoting their works while also critically considering the works of others, including friends' works;...the interconnections, creative capabilities, and interactivity of Web 2.o offers learners initiation into Web-based "participatory culture"...might take the form of "affiliations," such as online communities centered on people's background, interests, connections, and media (e.g., Facebook or MySpace); creative self- or collective "expressions" (e.g., fan video making, mash-ups); "collaborative problem solving (e.g., Wikipedia); and "circulations" (e.g., pod-casting, blogging). Such opportunities might promote potentially richer opportunities to make learning more personally meaningful, collaborative, and socially relevant (Greenhow, Robelia and Hughes, 2009, p. 249).