Changing the Teaching Model: As Technology is integrated into the classroom
This week I received an email from the Pickerington Local School District that all children in grades 5-12 would be receiving their own personal Chromebook or tablet!!! I was surprised, shocked and happy because all three of my children would be recipients. As I found out more detail, I was made aware that at first, the district moved from computer labs in each school to mobile laptop carts that allowed teachers to bring technology into individual classrooms. Now, with this new one-to-one program, students in preschool through grade 4 will have in-classroom access to their devices, and students in grades 5 and up will be able to take their devices home with them. This gives middle school, junior high school and high school students 24/7 access to technology for assignments and educational purposes.
This is a phenomenal idea and I agree wholeheartedly. I began to think, "How would this change the teaching model in the schools?"
Here are a few changes:
1. Textbooks have been replaced with digital content. This allows teachers to track the individual progress of a student within a certain curriculum and give them interventions or other help where needed and necessary.
2. The computer labs have now been turned into innovation centers with large screens where groups of students work together to create multi-media projects.
3. It requires teachers to make a significant commitment to learn how to effectively use these new tools and techniques
4. Teachers will blend the traditional classroom learning paradigm with the digital learning paradigm.
5. Teachers will reduce time standing in front of a classroom lecturing. They will move toward being education facilitators instead of education lecturers
6. Teachers will be engaging interactive learning with no paper handouts, but using Google classroom for students to turn in assignments and projects.
I am a proponent of technology and to me it is a positive thing for schools, teachers and administrators, but for the sake of looking at this issue on both sides, what are some disadvantages of having technology int he classroom?
This is a phenomenal idea and I agree wholeheartedly. I began to think, "How would this change the teaching model in the schools?"
Here are a few changes:
1. Textbooks have been replaced with digital content. This allows teachers to track the individual progress of a student within a certain curriculum and give them interventions or other help where needed and necessary.
2. The computer labs have now been turned into innovation centers with large screens where groups of students work together to create multi-media projects.
3. It requires teachers to make a significant commitment to learn how to effectively use these new tools and techniques
4. Teachers will blend the traditional classroom learning paradigm with the digital learning paradigm.
5. Teachers will reduce time standing in front of a classroom lecturing. They will move toward being education facilitators instead of education lecturers
6. Teachers will be engaging interactive learning with no paper handouts, but using Google classroom for students to turn in assignments and projects.
I am a proponent of technology and to me it is a positive thing for schools, teachers and administrators, but for the sake of looking at this issue on both sides, what are some disadvantages of having technology int he classroom?
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