These past two years, I learn a lot (specifically on Google for Education) about how to embed technology in the classroom. I personally feel that technology bring a lot of benefits.
Before we going deeper, we have to start by the purpose. Most teachers and schools are incorporating technology because it's the latest trend (yes, it is). Many schools go SMART because it becomes an urgent matter for the sake of competition. If you start by that purpose, it's ok but then you have to have bigger purpose.
First, before you want to make the class better, or students feel the benefit. Very first thing, you have to feel the benefit by yourself as a teacher. Without this, you will only found that technology is just another workload. As a teacher, a lot of our time consumed by scoring and finding resources. By using technology, scoring can be done easier and faster - for example Google Form and Google Classroom can help you organize your classroom works. Finding resources and community can also easily done by the help of technology. Using productivity app like KEEP, TASK, CALENDAR, will surely make your work as teacher more effective and efficient.
Second, once you feel the benefit for yourself, now think on how technology can improve your classroom practice. With technology, we can increase students engagement, make lessons more relevant and fit with students needs, give students more interactive teaching materials, and so on. Using platform like Kahoot!, Class Dojo, Padlet can help you to improve students engagement. Platform like Khan Academy, TED, will enrich you with gazillion material. I can't mention it all, but there are hundreds (maybe even thousand) apps that can help us to provide better and higher quality of learning experience.
Third, the purpose of incorporating technology in the class is also for students to master future skill. As you know, many jobs and profession now are replaced by system. Future job or profession requires ability to operate and even create systems It requires higher thinking skill, creativity, and people skill or collaboration. Yes, we are preparing them for something that we even can't imagine.
I can continue the list, but I think these are top three reasons that you need to buy in. Of course, in reality not everything work like what we planed. There are challenges too.. You need to make sure your teachers and students are ready to be responsible gadget users Learn about digital citizenship first. Apply those skill in your 'online' life, and bring it to your students.
Since, our future world will be dominated by technology, so it's important and urgent to bring digital citizenship into our school curriculum. Think about it!
Happy Teach-Teching!
Third, the purpose of incorporating technology in the class is also for students to master future skill. As you know, many jobs and profession now are replaced by system. Future job or profession requires ability to operate and even create systems It requires higher thinking skill, creativity, and people skill or collaboration. Yes, we are preparing them for something that we even can't imagine.
I can continue the list, but I think these are top three reasons that you need to buy in. Of course, in reality not everything work like what we planed. There are challenges too.. You need to make sure your teachers and students are ready to be responsible gadget users Learn about digital citizenship first. Apply those skill in your 'online' life, and bring it to your students.
Since, our future world will be dominated by technology, so it's important and urgent to bring digital citizenship into our school curriculum. Think about it!
Happy Teach-Teching!
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