As a teacher is is important to know a
student's familiarity with technology and what it entails. Saying
someone is good with technology without elaborating on it doesn't say
anything. Knowing how a student uses that technology in their
everyday life gives an idea of what they would be familiar working
with or how to reach a student should a problem arise. Looking at
the part of the video concerning the myspace page, I guessing (I
never used myspace) that to make that failing card graphic it needed
an image editing software like photoshop to create it, or it could
have been done through a computer programming language like html.
Knowing the specifics like that allow myself as a teacher to predict
possible problems that could arise in an assignment if they needed
something like Excel spreadsheet or using specific language and
phrasing to filter results from a search engine.
Also knowing what access a student has
to various technology is important to know as a teacher in order to
limit the number of hurdles a student might encounter in a course.
If a student doesn't have easy access to the internet, it would be
imposing a hardship on that student to give them an assignment that
needs extensive use of it.
Three communicative technologies that
have the largest impact on my life.
1st. Youtube and video
sharing. In several of my classes, lectures from other professors or
people in the area were an extremely valuable resource for learning
the material and applying it. I used youtube extensively throughout
my biochemistry course and in my calculus 2 course when learning
series. Youtube has made more likely to seek out an answer to a
problem on the material by myself before going to see a professor for
help.
2nd. About.com and sites
similar in that nature. This is similar to youtube, except often
about.com would have problems worked out completely giving the
answer. I think this has introduced a bad habit at times where I
would be less likely to work through a problem on my own and try to
get by through transcribing the work when I'm not feeling up to
studying. It's still a good resource if I got stuck, but I felt like
depended on it more then should have at times.
3rd Cellphones and texting.
Cellphones haven't had a significant effect on how I learn new
information but still have played an important part in my life. I do
think that for many cellphones have had a negative effect on how they
learn new information because their attention is split between what
they are doing and their friend just texted them.
When comparing to the people in the
videos, I don't think many people know just how useful video sharing
sites like youtube can be on a subject. I'll use youtube for a lesson
like learning the citric acid cycle when they might use it to share a
funny video with their friends
Although not really mentioned by the
videos, sites like about.com or cramster are pretty widely known and
used by students for problem solving. They are used for the same
purpose, and often result in the same issues with people trying to
use the same math setup in a problem.
I haven't really used my cellphone
often in learning. I did have a similar experience to one of the
girls in the second video since I did use the camera in an anatomy
and physiology class when doing a dissection of a cat to help
remember the muscle group names.
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