How are some ways that digitizing assignments will improve your teaching, class, or your organizing?
Digitizing assignments are the way of the future. I feel that all aspects of my class, classroom management, teaching style and overall organization will improve.
Through the use of different multimedia tools my classes can become more effective and efficient. At the moment I do not use many multimedia tools in my class. I have a more traditional style of teaching. However as students are becoming more tech savvy through the use of smart phones etc, teachers also need to change with the times and become tech savvy themselves. By digitizing my assignments my classes will become more structured and efficient. Instead of teaching via a book and having my students write up homework and assignments and hand them to me on paper. I could instruct my classes through the use of multimedia tools like prezzi, power point presentations, videos and so on. This will make my classes more fun and hopefully stimulate the minds of my students and keep them interested in my classes. This will be a big change from the same old mundane, repetitive classes that many teachers experience because they only use a book.
By digitizing my assignments students will be able to complete homework and class assignments and then very easily email them to me or even complete their work through the use of a blog. This will help me as a teacher as I can see exactly when their work was turned in. I can then mark their work and post results online or email comments back or make teacher's comments at the bottom of their blog.
I also feel that by digitizing my work I will become a lot more organized. My students grades, class work and progress will easily be accessible on computer. No more paperwork means time saved. To be an effective teacher, organization is key! It makes perfect sense to me that the more organized you are as a teacher, the more time you will save, and thus this extra time can be put to more useful work like creating and preparing classes in a more effective way.
I really enjoyed your blog so far and can absolutely relate to a number of points you have mentioned. I think one of the sentiments that seemed to ring throughout in both posts I read were the comments on 'teachers becoming more tech savvy' and keeping in the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteLike you I find that I am lagging behind in the tech department and, more and more, I feel as if my students notice that. I think it's a common thing among many teachers who truly want to put their students first to feel a sense of almost self-consciousness. I think it is important and a great thing when a teacher can take a look at his or her teaching style and see where it needs improvement and then make the changes necessary to adjust to the times and the needs of the students.
I think teaching is all about learning as well, and learning is an evolving process of trial, error and change. I think you are on the right track to becoming a better teacher and bid you well on this new technological journey.
I couldn't agree more with the theme of this post. It is only natural that education will follow in the direction of technology we find in every other part of our lives. As teacher's we are and always should be evolving and growing with our methods and tools we use to engage students. I feel as though we would be doing our students a disservice if we were not to employ more technology in the classroom. Organization is the common element in great teachers and opens up the doors of communication and transparency also. Like you, it makes perfect sense to me to use the tools available to become more effective and efficient.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that hit me on the first day of this class was how many tools were at my disposable that I had never even thought (or knew) to use as a part of my class. I think you are right on by saying that using this technology as apart of educating will only boost the students interest in coming to class and participating.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping we will we can make use of this new found techno knowledge.
Good luck to you, Tboner.
One of the things that hit me on the first day of this class was how many tools were at my disposable that I had never even thought (or knew) to use as a part of my class. I think you are right on by saying that using this technology as apart of educating will only boost the students interest in coming to class and participating.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping we will we can make use of this new found techno knowledge.
Good luck to you, Tboner.
Informative and interesting. Seems like we share many of the same ideas. I always thought that technology was a wonderful tool to captivate and inspire students. I am starting to realize that teachers should also learn from this also. More and more we see how important data can be to all.
ReplyDeleteNice blog T-Bone, something I personally forget, is how my students are light years ahead of me when it comes to technology. I burned a CD with some listening tracks for a student, yes it took me hours to figure it out, and as I proudly hand it to her, she asks if she can have it in a compressed, zipped, MP4 something rather? So yes, give them what they want, give them what interests them and what they are good at using. I write homework on the board and they all take photos with their phones, message heard loud and clear!
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