My summary of learning for 509 addresses the two critical questions for the course:
1. How can you select emerging technologies which fit your developing philosophy of education?
2. How can you inspire, initiate and implement sustainable integration of emerging technologies in your own practice, and in the practice of others?
I chose to sketch out my own “mind-map” for the first critical question. After struggling with technology tools for mind-mapping, I could not come up with the vision I had in my head. If this was something I was going to refer to and pin on my office wall, I wanted it to visually represent my thinking. In this case, the use of a technology tool did not fit my goal (a good reminder not to use a tool just for the sake of including technology).
To answer the second critical question I created a poster using Glogster. This tool was a graphic way of presenting my ideas and it also enabled me to embed a video to further illustrate my points. Glogster is one of the presentation tools I will introduce to my students as tool to showcase their learning.
This course allowed me to explore emerging technologies that I might not have considered using in my teaching. I have a new appreciation for eBooks and have already used them as a teaching tool this term. Before OLTD 509, I honestly did not acknowledge the creative use of tablets for education. By exploring the limitations of the tablet during our seminar facilitation week, I found by the end of the week I had completely embraced all of the tablets’ strengths. I will be a proud owner of an iPad Air by next week!
By far, the greatest learning for me in this course was being able to re-evaluate my own teaching philosophy and create a mindset on how to include emerging technologies into my teaching practise.
1. How can you select emerging technologies which fit your developing philosophy of education?
2. How can you inspire, initiate and implement sustainable integration of emerging technologies in your own practice, and in the practice of others?
I chose to sketch out my own “mind-map” for the first critical question. After struggling with technology tools for mind-mapping, I could not come up with the vision I had in my head. If this was something I was going to refer to and pin on my office wall, I wanted it to visually represent my thinking. In this case, the use of a technology tool did not fit my goal (a good reminder not to use a tool just for the sake of including technology).
To answer the second critical question I created a poster using Glogster. This tool was a graphic way of presenting my ideas and it also enabled me to embed a video to further illustrate my points. Glogster is one of the presentation tools I will introduce to my students as tool to showcase their learning.
This course allowed me to explore emerging technologies that I might not have considered using in my teaching. I have a new appreciation for eBooks and have already used them as a teaching tool this term. Before OLTD 509, I honestly did not acknowledge the creative use of tablets for education. By exploring the limitations of the tablet during our seminar facilitation week, I found by the end of the week I had completely embraced all of the tablets’ strengths. I will be a proud owner of an iPad Air by next week!
By far, the greatest learning for me in this course was being able to re-evaluate my own teaching philosophy and create a mindset on how to include emerging technologies into my teaching practise.