What Tech Ideas Do Pre-Service Teachers

Need?SAGE - Oct. 19, 2012

Dr. R Redekopp University of Manitoba

The 'Toolbox'

Criteria

•free

•web based (not download and install)

•easy to use

•easy to share

The 'Toolbox'

For the teacher:

•PLN stuff - twitter, RSS, social bookmarking

•Managing stuff - Google Docs / MS SkyDrive

•Communication to students and parents - blogs, wikis, web sites

•Managed systems - Edmodo, Schoology

The 'Toolbox'

For the teacher:

•creation of multimedia items - video, audio, image manipulation, mash-ups

•posting the above on their web presence

•add to a class collection of information (wiki or otherwise)

•use of the darned IWB

The 'Toolbox'

For the student:

•creation of multimedia items - video, audio, image manipulation, mash-ups

•posting the above on their web presence

•add to a class collection of information (wiki or otherwise)

•Quick and easy response sites

BIG Ideas

McLuhan, Barney, Turkle, Ellul

•how does the technology use us?

•what is the underlying message of technology?

•'The medium IS the message'

•Technology and democracy

BIG Ideas

Pedagogy vs Hype

•When to use

•When to set aside

•Engagement is necessary, but not sufficient

•Where's the research?

•Will tech use help learning?

BIG Ideas

From Facts to Thinking to Wisdom

•Google is a fact machine - useless unless we move students to "Bloom"

•Stepping back to ponder / contextualize facts

•FInding Big Ideas and Big Questions

BIG Ideas

Social Issues

•More connected and more isolated

•Social, classroom and digital etiquette

•Think before you post

•Cyber-bullying

BIG Ideas

Environmental Issues

•Mining of rare earth materials

•Manufacturing conditions

•Toxic chemicals

•Designed for the Dump / Can't fix

•eWaste / recycling

Questions?

There is no Silver Bullet (or Lone Ranger) to solve all problems

All answers being with

"It depends ...