1) What value (if any) do you think social bookmarking might hold for teachers and/or students? You may think about students sharing with each other, teachers sharing with their students, teachers sharing with other teachers, administrators sharing with teachers, sharing with parents, or any other scenario(s) you can imagine.
I think that social bookmarking could help students share information when gathering it for a research project. This would allow them to research different parts of the project and then share the resources. This would also work in the workplace. Administrators could share articles, statistics, etc. with staff members anda then hold discussions on the content. This would also be true for students. Parents would benefit also. One could organize the page by category. If a child is struggling in reading, there could be some links that would give information on how to help as well as online inter-active sites. I could see myself attaching this to my school web page for parents to access easily. They could also add to it when they found a site that was helpful to them.
2) Back to the Trends & Issues reading, to what degree do the definitions in this chapter correspond with what you have thought about this area and what it is you hope to do in your line of work (or in a future career)? Does is there anything surprising or very new you read in this chapter? Does something seem to be missing?
I have never really though for Instructional Design and Technology. As I read this week, I have been thinking about how the definition is related to education. If I think about how I have defined technology in the past, it has been in correlation with multi-media. Similar to how is was deifned in chapter one where we focus on "the means via which instruction is presented to learners." (Resier 2007, pg 3) I am excited to see that the definition has changed to "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources." (Reisner, 2007, pg 6). I think the key words are 'facilitating learning and improving performance'. I think that what might be missing is that the technology aspect of learning needs to be across the curriculum. Teachers in all curricular areas need to teaching with technology. Technology needs to be seen as a way to improve what we already do, it is a way of thinking. We need to use technology to teach the curriculum that is set before us,not create a curriculum that fits the technolgy that is available.
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4 comments:
Laura,
The last line that you wrote got me thinking a bit about how we integrate technology into our curriculums. I don't know how your curriculum gets set, but with me, we must review it every 3 years (our music commmitee meets and reviews and revises it) and make appropriate adjustments to meet state benchmarks. I agree that we need to use technology to teach our current curriculum, or to supplement it, and I agree that an entire curriculum should not be created based on available technology, but I think that a curriculum can be revised and refined as new materials arrive and as technology continues to advance. I would never base my curriculum on new technology, but I think that there are ways to use it to advance and improve it.
Laura-
I teach 4th in a new building where they installed a new computer system. Within this system there are only 3 "real" computers and the rest are linked up to one main computer. This main computer system is what controls what comes through to each classroom terminal and all of the computer lab computers. This summer they are going to trash the entire system and put "real" computers at each computer station because we have had so many problems this year so hopefully next year I will be able to do more in my classroom and in the computer lab.
I like your ideas you had about helping struggling students with bookmarking information for parents. This would be a great tool that parents could not only learn from but also add too like you suggested.
Jennifer
I also think its a great idea to have bookmarks for parents of not just struggling students but any student. You could tag them for each of the subjects you teach.
It is interesting how the definition of instuctional design and technology has changed. It will be interesting to see if any new versions are needed in the future because of where technology takes us.
Athony Vitgto
Laura,
I really like your idea about organizing the bookmarking site into math and reading, and then attatching that link to you school web page. This could be offered to students and their parents as an alternative option to summer school programs.
I was thinking that my principal could set up a social bookmarking page, or blog for that matter, and have links to some of the stuff she spends too much time in meetings going over. (ya know what I mean?)
2) Sometimes, some of the older teachers are reluctant to change. I think if we could get them to use technology to teach the curriculum (like you said) we would be alright.
Chrissy
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