Ashley- Just like your Skybug, my Larry also said that he favorite thing to to online was to look up music videos on You Tube. I agree with you when you say that music is important and educational in many ways. I'm not saying that kids should be allowed to use You Tube to look up music videos all day at school, but I do think that teachers could spend a little time teaching kids how to use You Tube. A lot of kids, especially in my area, don't have unlimited access to the internet at home, so most of their online interactions happen at school.
Another way that our students were the same was that Larry said he mostly uses school computers for typing and testing.
I absolutely agree that we as educators have all this technology at our disposal and, sadly, because of whatever reason (funding, lack of knowledge, limitations at our school) we aren't utilizing technology as much as we could to really help our students. Overall, I think that this is a very nice case study and you make very good points about education and the use/lack of technology in schools.
Really enjoyed reading your case study! I think your student has the same dull opinion about technology in schools as do many other students. They are just used for testing, typing, and maybe research. Nothing new and exciting- but I think that is how the digital gap can start to be covered. By introducing new ways to use technology that students don't have experience with. There are so many activities that can be done online or digitally that can encourage learning and excitement. Using music is one- Skybug would probably love incorporating a song or instrumental to one of her projects, perhaps- but most likely isn't allowed because the educators just say no or are not permitted on their end, either. If we just start with small things then hopefully one day we can have digital literacies in school on a daily and exciting basis.
Ashley-
ReplyDeleteJust like your Skybug, my Larry also said that he favorite thing to to online was to look up music videos on You Tube. I agree with you when you say that music is important and educational in many ways. I'm not saying that kids should be allowed to use You Tube to look up music videos all day at school, but I do think that teachers could spend a little time teaching kids how to use You Tube. A lot of kids, especially in my area, don't have unlimited access to the internet at home, so most of their online interactions happen at school.
Another way that our students were the same was that Larry said he mostly uses school computers for typing and testing.
I absolutely agree that we as educators have all this technology at our disposal and, sadly, because of whatever reason (funding, lack of knowledge, limitations at our school) we aren't utilizing technology as much as we could to really help our students. Overall, I think that this is a very nice case study and you make very good points about education and the use/lack of technology in schools.
Really enjoyed reading your case study! I think your student has the same dull opinion about technology in schools as do many other students. They are just used for testing, typing, and maybe research. Nothing new and exciting- but I think that is how the digital gap can start to be covered. By introducing new ways to use technology that students don't have experience with. There are so many activities that can be done online or digitally that can encourage learning and excitement. Using music is one- Skybug would probably love incorporating a song or instrumental to one of her projects, perhaps- but most likely isn't allowed because the educators just say no or are not permitted on their end, either. If we just start with small things then hopefully one day we can have digital literacies in school on a daily and exciting basis.
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