Module 6
The world
around us is emerging and changing every day. The students in our schools are
challenged with diverse environments and new earning criteria. The students are
not the only ones with these challenges, the instructors of the students have
to adapt and find ways to teach these students. ”The new literacies require a
high level of sophistication from our students,” (Doering & Robyler 2013)
this create reasons for integrating more technologies into the classroom.
Advantages
Ebooks, Wiki page, Electronic
Outlining, Digital Storytelling
With the
language Arts field there are some advantages of integrating new technologies. With
writing activities you have to come up with good concepts. Concept mapping software
is popular as a pre-writing planning tool. (Doering & Roblyer 2013) Another
advantage of technology in the classroom is having the use of auto correction in
a writing course. AutoCorrect is a built in feature that automatically detects
and corrects misspelled words. (Doering & Robyler 2013) “Technology offers a natural setting in which
students in which students can be positioned as the experts.” (Doering &
Robyler 2013) The instructor can also use a Wike page to keep student involed
with each other work. A wiki is a collection of web pages
located in an online community that encourage collaboration.(Doering &
Robyler 2013) Here is a video discussing the advantage of technology in the
classroom.
M6 here is a video talking about wiki intergration. Learning with Wikis and Blogs (excerpt): http://t.co/nXnKQgRxsL via @youtube #ED527UM
— darrell lebeaux (@GeauxBeaux8) November 16, 2013
Disadvantages
Teacher understand
that technology intergrated into the classroom is a great thing. It create
endless amounts of oppurtunities to teach students great things. What if your
technology don’t work? This is were one of the problems falls into place. If a
teacher base her whole day around the use of a specific technology and it does
not work, the teacher day goes downs the drain. Some schools have intergrated Bring Your Own Device. BYOD is a great
idea but you run into a problem when you have less foutunate kids with the
ability of BYOD. Here is an article discussing some of the cons of technology
intergration in the classroom.
