While reading this article, I wished I would have printed it out, it blinded my eyes. However, I do feel that this article was very important to read as a future teacher. I think it is important to integrate technology into our teaching because technology is not going away, its only getting more advanced.
I think that, as teachers today get over whelmed with technology it is easy to get lost in the technology and easily forget about it or just solely rely on technology to teach our students.
This methodology is important to know and learn how to implement within the classroom because it helps to teach and then bring the technology in as a support to our students.
Net generation as a preservice teacher: transferring familiarity with the new technologies to educational environments:
This article talked about the importance of bringing new technological techniques to students within the education programs. It has been found that students in todays programs find it just as difficult to go from informal social networking sites to formal sites for communication and teaching.
However, the educators teaching the preservice teachers find it easy to overlook the technology parts of teaching because the preservice teachers are always using technology.
I found this article very interesting, because I find it a little difficult to go from informal, to formal settings in the technology world. I also can see where it is hard for educators to teach it because they forget that we are always mostly in the informal setting. I thought this article was very interesting and an important reminder of the importance of technology within education.
I agree that the TPACK article was helpful for me because it shows insight onto the things about technology that we don't think about needing to know. Technology is changing rapidly and we are in for some major changes as we go on in our teaching careers.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the TPACK article, I agree that it was a fantastic article for us to read. It is very important for us to integrate and implement technology into our classroom, but it's even more pertinent that the technology that we integrate and implement with is meaningful.
ReplyDeleteGoing from informal to formal settings online can be difficult. I think it's harder for some than others but it's all about how different you are in text versus type.
Your response makes me think of my original thought for TPACK introduction, which may ideally implement in our teacher education program someday. To ensure that students retain information from TPACK, the faculty “thread,” or integrate, lessons from the initial course throughout our program, beginning with the first lesson that teacher candidates plan in their first methods class and continuing through to their student-teaching year.
ReplyDeleteFrom the outset, pre-service teachers must include in their lesson plans a way to assess whether children have understood the lesson; a clear set of goals detailing what kids are supposed to do and know at the end of a lesson; a list of the technology they intend to use and why; and, if they’re not going to use technology, an explanation.
The point isn’t whether you use technology or whether you don’t – it’s when you use it and why you use it!!