I found this chapter to be very informational! I think that
the internet reciprocal teaching strategy could be a very important routine
that should be used in the classroom. This tool sounds great because the
teacher can model to the students what they want to see them accomplish and
then the students can have their turn to teach the teacher and the other
students. The book says that it will “strengthen and differentiate the
comprehension instruction in any core reading program.”
I liked
that the chapter gave us a list of many of the ways that technology can be
incorporated in the classroom. However, it dawned on me that I have never even
used half of these resources in my classroom before. The ones I have used or
seen were the discussion board, interactive whiteboard, mobile applications,
social networking, blogs, and web based software’s. The funny part is that I
only have recently used these pieces of technology in my college classrooms or
late High school. That means within the last four years the classrooms are
already changing.
The chapter
talks about using instant messenger and chat rooms to be good online
applications to use in the classroom. I do not really agree with this because I
feel like the students could become very distracted with this and talk to their
friends about other things that are not school related. I also feel like social
networking in the classroom is only helpful to an extent. For example, in my
freshman English class my teacher had us all add him on facebook and communicate
with him through there. This was helpful because we all knew how to use
facebook and it was easy to communicate with him but I was easily distracted.
Who really wants to read a short story that your professor has posted online
when some pictures from the weekend pop up from the party you went to. Overall,
I feel like this is not just distracting for me but for many others and technology
could be very great in the classroom but also many things need to be avoided in
my opinion.
H Jessica,
ReplyDeleteI think you are right, its hard to understand how much use of technology will be successful in a classroom setting. I have taken many online classes before and not only enjoy them, but, find myself taking more out of them out of my regular sit in classes. I agree that instant messengers and chat rooms are a tricky concept when trying to make sure your student's actually do work, however, I think blogs, and discussion questions are really useful. Sometimes I find myself not completely understanding something but when writing about it and receiving feedback and comments from another classmate that either understood it better, or, maybe thought the same thing I did, I want to know more. I want to solve that problem, or if the student had an answer I take away something I didn't know. Either way I am always taking away knowledge.
I completely agree technology should be monitored, because in the right setting, or used in the right way, it can be a successful tool for learning.