Topic #2: Tech in your workplace: How has your workplace kept up with tech or not kept up with tech? What kinds of tech things have you bought to use in your classroom/presentation?Please give examples (and have a little fun with the idea...).
There is a range of tech products were using in the classrooms. The most widely used is the ELMO document camera. This helps in activities where different strategies are used to work through text. “Chunking”, “out lining”, and “Cornell notes”. They are useful only as a better version of a traditional overhead projector with transparencies.
Its as interesting as the transformation from a chalkboard to a dry erase board. The teachers like them, but it’s a case of an improvement to their old process rather than an innovation and creation of interactive curriculum.
The use of smart boards that we already have on campus is where innovation can be made, but there are a variety of issues that hinder their use by teachers. The number one reason is the technology mindset is lacking with the majority of teachers and the demands that they currently have in there daily routine.
Just having training on how to use a smart board will only work with self-directed teachers. They will invest their personal time and invest in the transformation of their curriculum. The rest of the teachers need a structured plan and mentoring with the creation of the content and the implementation of the curriculum when the students get their first experience in it.
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You touch on something that is usually overlooked. It's not enough to just offer training. Learning is such a social thing that it's important to have teachers work in small groups so that they can support each other in their learning and make the training more relevant to the actual job. So important, and so overlooked.
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