Set Up Learning – for Today’s Learner
One of the powers of teaching with technology is the immediate access to different web experiences. These experiences can be as diverse as a video about cell mitosis to blogs about Edgar Allen Poe poems.
Today’s teacher needs to be able to provide quick and easy access to those web resources. Today’s teacher should be more of a filter of web content, a tour guide of web content and a manager of web content. Today’s teacher should not be the soul provider of information – it is unnecessary.
Here is what I am talking about:
| Yesterday’s Teachers…. | Today’s Teachers…. |
| Call on students to respond one at a time to a thought provoking question | Post questions to a blog and get students to respond to it so that ALL students are engaged. |
| Make all students practice the same math facts | Take students to a web site where the student can practice the math facts THEY need to work on – Are you at Math Magician? |
| Use text books with static images of the Battle of Gettysburg | Use interactive videos to reach higher level thinking skills about the Battle. see here. |
As wonderful a tool as technology is, there is still the problem of giving students something to do after they meet your objectives. Here is your answer:
- Use a web browser that utilizes tools – I recommend Firefox, but if you use Internet Explorer, use IE 7
- Learn how to use tabbed browsing
- Teach your students how to open links in new tabs
- Just RIGHT CLICK all links and choose OPEN LINKS IN NEW TABS
- Link to your objective
- Link to a Magis activity (My meaning, although taken from the Jesuits when I worked at Canisius HS in Buffalo, NY, means to do more than one is expected)
- Teach your kids how to use the Magis activity when they are DONE meeting your objectives
A video tutorial is coming soon.
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