When discussing the integration of technology for a classroom, I tend to think of more “professional” technologies. For example, many people have different views on cell phone use. To use these in a classroom, would each child have to bring their own cell phone? Since I am in elementary education, this would cause a problem. If parents did not want their child to use a cell phone, what would that child do? Also, as far as the school systems that I have attended, we were not allowed to bring cell phones to school. Wouldn’t that send mixed messages? For the same reasons, I feel parents might have an issue with social networking sites at such a young age. Recently in my current biology class, we discussed the use of ‘YouTube’ at our grade levels. We came to the consensus that we believed if ‘YouTube’ is used, it should be first previewed by the teacher, and then displayed using only the teacher’s computer on a main screen. We feel if students had personal access to ‘YouTube’, they might get off track. While I believe all of these technologies are extremely useful and beneficial, I feel there is a certain time and place for each. For example, cell phones for communication with friends and family outside of school. While implementing any technology into a classroom, the students are always the number one priority. I feel providing students with technologies that are both beneficial and professional is the best approach. This is why I have left out certain technologies throughout this class.
Gina Pagliaccetti
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I agree with what you say! I am in that same biology class. Our teacher gave each table a computer and had us you tube a video on kangaroos giving birth. My table did so, and the option for the very next video on the list was kanagaroos "doing it." I love you tube, you can find very interesting videos on it, but, I would be terrified to have my students use the website.
ReplyDeleteI agree as well... I think that You Tube can be a very good resource for students. I tried to use a video on the sun and moon from you tube for my science lesson for 3rd graders last week. Unfortunately, the BCPS computer had Youtube.com blocked, and I was not able to show my students the sun and moon videos. I would not leave all of the freedom up to the students when using these types of technologies. These technologies would need to be previewed, and dispensed by the teacher only. Things like this can be great resources for integrating technology, as long as the teacher is smart about how he/she is going about integrating them into the classroom.
ReplyDeleteThrough reading everyones posts and comments, it seems we all have the same feelings about the integration of technology. As elementary education majors and future teachers, we all hold the same belief that there is a difference between personal technologies and classroom technologies. While some can go both ways, I feel they need to be sensored by the teacher and carefully integrated into the classroom to avoid problems.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there needs to be a distinction made between professional and personal technologies. I also agree with your view on you tube. Because I am going to be a history teacher showing a short clip on you tube is entirely a possibility, however I would only show a clip if I had previewed it first and deemed it appropriate for my lesson. Giving the students a free pass to use you tube as a class lesson could be a disaster. I know that if a teacher told me to look something up on you tube for class the first thing I would look at is hockey fights. So the only way I am showing a you tube video in my class is if its from a projector coming from my computer and already previewed.
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