ErinR

rss url="http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=174472&title=Literacy_Technology_Integration" link="true" number="10"media type="custom" key="6484797"media type="file" key="ErinR.mp3" width="240" height="20" The significance behind my bitstrip is to show how relevant John Dewey's teachings on education still are today specifically to technology integration into education. Technology will only continue to increase in its strength and power and unless educators begin to accept and utilize the tremendous opportunities that are available, students will not be entering the world prepared to succeed and create. Dewey knew that growth would continue at an amazing rate (in every capacity, I believe) and unless continual readaptation happens, we will become stagnant as a society. While it is true that the older generations have much to teach younger generations, I strongly believe that younger generations have so much to offer in terms of creation to everyone in terms of technology. I have to admit after looking over my bitstrip, I realized that I failed to use any humor in it because I was concerned with getting the pertinent information into it. I apologize for the dryness of the end result.

The teacher tube video I chose on technology integration is a great example of how teachers working with media specialists who are knowledgeable and patient can produce a great end product. The children were given plenty of differentiated instruction which, I feel, proves to be the most effective means of teaching and allows every student the chance to succeed and perform at their best. The students were in elementary school and they were able to record themselves and listen back to their voices and decide what they wanted to keep and what didn't seem to work. The opportunity to work with technology such as this and use self-correction while other students could offer them advice was extremely valuable.

media type="googlespreadsheet" key="0AsMTWE7TCJpXdERFdldiOWtvWG02Q3NYZXBEX0ZKTkE" width="500" height="300"media type="custom" key="6504361" I believe that remembering was the most important skill required in my middle and high school career unfortunately. Most teachers just wanted you to prove that you studied and memorized the information they presented instead of actually analyzing and applying it. This changed somewhat when I entered college but for the most part, it remained the same. I believe it is easier for educators to just ask students to read something and then regurgitate it instead of actually taking time to think about it, analyze it, and then apply it to another situation. I hope that this is changing in education because a tremendous part of succeeding in life is the ability to analyze situations and think about them in different ways and then apply that.

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