Often, as educators, we can be bombarded with the newest, latest and greatest of: strategies, assessment, software, devices, philosophies, political ideals.... the list goes on. One of these new initiatives is technology implementation. While it can often feel like device and behavior management that accompanies technology may be more hassle than it’s worth, we also have to prepare students for a technology dependent world both in and out of the educational setting. That is why it is important to use technology in ways that work best for you and your students; technology use in not prescriptive. Technology implementation should enhance the work you are already doing. For example, while doing a unit on speech, I needed students to self-reflect and use a rubric before presenting in front of the class. By using technology, students could record themselves and I could look at their self-reflection to see whether or not they had worked on this. This saved me time and the speeches were much better quality.
Working on fluency? Have students record their reading and save it to their drive and share the folder with you. There are many ways that technology can help the daily flow of your classroom and engage students in new ways without being “one more thing”. Once wading through the scary waters of learning new technology and creating dynamic lessons that get the most achievement from students, technology becomes a part of your classroom and the driving force for students to be able to produce learning in ways not possible before. Comments are closed.
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AuthorJessica Tuwaiq is a former ELA middle school teacher as well as a former instructional technology coach. In her current role, she works with Michigan districts to implement technology. Categories
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