Monday, September 5, 2011
Ten years from now...
This classroom is designed to introduce you to Web 2.0 and specifically, a classroom as an extension (or part of?) Web 2.0.
The New York Times is running a piece on what school will look like in ten years. What do you think the classroom will look like? Is what we're doing a preview of what's to come? Or do you think we'll go back to using pieces of slate and chalk soon?
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ReplyDeleteI say the use of Smart board, in my opinion and experience, is very easy to learn with. I had it in several classes in my senior year of high school and I would say it was effective. Then again, as I've noticed from my experience with kids that are going into the system with all these new technology is missing out on a few old school learning experiences. For example, my mother brought home a child around 5 years old and we tried to teach him how to play the old game systems we have in the house. The child didn't know how to hold a remote control for the Nintendo system with two hands. As I observed, he kept moving the remote thinking that the characters/objects will move on their own like the now Wii and Kinect systems. I most recently found out that the Wii system is being used in my old high school for the disabled. I think that's great, but now that technology is getting a lot simpler children these days would hold an old technology that we would use in the past and think that a simple movement will make it work. The now touch screens on everything is not like the old computers or phones where we would manually do things. I think that the technology could be put in the classroom to an extent, but as I pointed out children may miss the knowledge of picking up a PRINTED book and read or writing assignments by hand then noticing their mistakes, instead of having technology auto-correct(spell check) it for them.
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