The final week of my CEP program we reflected on our practice. How do we bring passion and curiosity to our students? How can we incorporate technology to instill passion and curiosity? The infographic below is how I chose to represent my information. It focuses on how technology is used from a student and from a teacher perspective.
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From a teaching perspective, I focus on generating real-world problems. Which often means researching related topics and preparing multiple scenarios for students to explore. For example, I teach a lesson on tweets or youtube videos going viral. Students must determine how long it takes or how quickly content must be shared in order for it to become viral. Students take this questions, research it further, collaborate and assess each other’s ideas to further thinking, then submit their responses. If these responses are submitted or shared electronically, it is much easier to keep an ongoing log of student-student or student-teacher ideas for revision. By using these technologies, we are able to generate more passion and curiosity towards the topics we learn as well as improve on skills needed in today’s global and technologically advanced society.
References:
Friedman, T.L. (2013). It’s PQ and CQ as Much as I.Q. The Opinion Pages. NY Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/opinion/friedman-its-pq-and-cq-as-much-as-iq.html?_r=0
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