I teach at a 1:1 laptop school where students bring their own laptop to school everyday. This is my first 1:1 laptop school and I really enjoy the freedom this brings with it- I don’t have to sign up for a laptop cart or computer lab and I can count on my students knowing how to navigate around the computer easily and, for the most part, effectively. There is quite a range of types of…
In response to: “Write a reflective blog post on how the courses to date in this program have changed your teaching for the new year.” The CoETaIL courses have accelerated my involvement with Web 2.0 tools in my classroom. I was using Google Apps in class (sites, docs, etc.) but was fairly static with them, only using them to deliver information to my students. But during my summer course on Marine Biology, I experimented with…
Will publishing their lab experiment results on the web make students better scientists? I think it would be interesting to see what, if any changes one might see in the quality of a students work if they changed from doing write-ups the ‘old’ way to something on the web. What if students submitted their work to an online format, got some peer review, made revisions and then ‘published’ their work?
Am I a typical person when I’m on-line? In the past 4 hours the resources that I have looked at for the COETAIL class amount to the following:
Thinking about human evolution and technology, I see that technology is changing us as humans- how we interact, how much activity we have, what types of jobs are available, our bio-rhythms, etc. The constant use of technology really must be having a physical effect on us and I’m interested in the current research from neuroscience on this topic. When I saw this video, it prompted me to write this blog.