Connected Educator's Challenge - create a blog
An absolute newbie, that's me. This blog will contain my thoughts about ideas that influence me as a teacher, passionate student of science, juggler of home and work.
So this is the first entry, step one of the challenge.
The recent uproar about the OECD report of technology effects in the classroom. After a long dept discussion about the whole idea, we concluded that most teachers do it poorly because they don't know how to do any better. More training, more time, more, more. Always the way. But then on reflection I was thinking about the crazy busy time teachers have at work. Hardly a moment to think straight. Is this just ANOTHER thing to learn, to take into account in our ever expanding repertoire as subject teachers, careers advisors, subject literacy experts, culturally responsive, internally and externally moderated NCEA'ed to the back teeth? OR is there a way to help us by using technology in kete of strategies for learning? Using a Kahoot is certainly low down on the SAMR model of digital technology but it isn't devoid of educational use. Sure, you can do a quiz with pen and paper, just as well and I remember setting up Friday afternoon class quizzes with runners and a big score chart on the white board. But the use of Kahoot that enhances education isn't that the students experience something digital, it's that the results are digitally available to the teacher instantly. The teacher can then use that information to adjust teaching the very next lesson, not some time next week after they have analysed the results. We need to be smart about what we choose to use in the class as a tool in the kete. Kahoot is a smart choice.
So this is the first entry, step one of the challenge.
The recent uproar about the OECD report of technology effects in the classroom. After a long dept discussion about the whole idea, we concluded that most teachers do it poorly because they don't know how to do any better. More training, more time, more, more. Always the way. But then on reflection I was thinking about the crazy busy time teachers have at work. Hardly a moment to think straight. Is this just ANOTHER thing to learn, to take into account in our ever expanding repertoire as subject teachers, careers advisors, subject literacy experts, culturally responsive, internally and externally moderated NCEA'ed to the back teeth? OR is there a way to help us by using technology in kete of strategies for learning? Using a Kahoot is certainly low down on the SAMR model of digital technology but it isn't devoid of educational use. Sure, you can do a quiz with pen and paper, just as well and I remember setting up Friday afternoon class quizzes with runners and a big score chart on the white board. But the use of Kahoot that enhances education isn't that the students experience something digital, it's that the results are digitally available to the teacher instantly. The teacher can then use that information to adjust teaching the very next lesson, not some time next week after they have analysed the results. We need to be smart about what we choose to use in the class as a tool in the kete. Kahoot is a smart choice.
Thanks for this Carmen - I haven't used Kahoot so will have to have a look at it!
ReplyDeleteAs with Sue, I haven't used Kahoot and will give it a look now. The SAMR model has begun to influence my thinking also. It's a challenging and exciting way to jolt our thinking out of the Substitution and even Augmentation stages with our use of technology in the classroom and beyond. As Dr. Puentedura says, we should think of the whole world as a set of learning space for our students and how we work in the classroom should encourage them to take their learning 'on the road' :) Great first post! Nga mihi nui koe
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the world of blogging! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. I have never heard of Kahoot either and will look into it. I am primary trained though and we use a variety of methods to collect summative data. But I am always interested in putting another tool into the tool box.
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