One small step
I was interested to read the post from Frieda at Thinking about Learning on the topic of “Changing Cultures”. Tasmania, the island state of Australia, is supposed to be the intelligent island or so our government has been telling us for many years. Yet, in schools where many teachers are close to retirement age, there is not a lot of computer use other than for word processing or using Powerpoints for presentation purposes. One reason for this is lack of computers in classrooms and when computers are in labs, often these are used for IT classes, so English and Maths teachers can’t integrate simulations, webquests etc into their program easily.
Having been back at school a bit over a week now, I mentioned to some teachers at my school that I had been blogging and learning about wikis and using the Smartboard over the holidays. I am hoping that one small step from me, in my subtle loud voice, might find some other teachers prepared to increase their range of teaching skills using Web 2.0 technologies. Already in my classroom, I have noticed the keen interest taken in writing by the boys in the group when using the class blog.
Hi my name is Tyson from Adelaide.
Our class is looking at other classe’s Blogs and writing comments on them.
I think your class blog is great and very interesting
Hi Tyson, Remember when you type in your name, only use your first name, don’t put in your last name. Did you go to my class blog as well? They have a post about being internet safe and you might want to read some of their comments.
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I believe these technology skills are an absolute necessity for today’s teachers. My college students have lived their entire lives in the digital age. Teachers who ignore technology are simply missing the boat.
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