I see technology certainly assisting in the creation of student friendly learning objectives. Technology allows us to communicate with our peers and bounce ideas off of each other. Social studies teachers can talk with other colleagues across the world, perhaps Mr. Smith of New England has a knack for developing student friendly objectives and he can assist Mr. Brown of Wisconsin. For example, the blog we read to inspire this post would have been completely innaccessible without this technology, but we are now able to see what Mr. Ferriter thinks and better learn how to adapt objectives to students' needs.
With communicating the learning objectives the possiblity exists that, with older students, the objectives could be sent via email/update prior to class to prepare the student for that day's lecture. It also allows the possibility to do a follow-up after each lecture to see if the students are understanding the materiel. It also opens the door to more parent-teacher relationships and allow the parents to actively provide input to their child's educational objectives.
I don't see many downsides to using technology to creating and communicating these learning objectives. Perhaps an educator could more easily piggy-back on another's objectives, making it unauthentic. But this, any most other downside, simply become easier with technology, not perpetuated by it. In short, I see technology as an extremely helpful tool for communicating valuable ideas between educators leading to the creating of student friendly objectives.
PTL,
-Travis Ray
Your first paragraph was well written and certainly hard to argue against. In the second paragraph, I thought your idea was creative - sending students updates prior to the lecture in order for them to better prepare themselves for achieving daily goals. The last paragraph is informing and I find myself able to concur. Overall, nicely done.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with everything you say. Except, I don't think that there are any down sides to technology helping with communicating learning objectives. If a teacher banks on other people's learning objective, I think that is the teachers fault that they are lazy enough not to do their own. I see nothing wrong using this bank every once in a while, but always using someone else's all the time is just a sign of a lazy teacher.
ReplyDeleteI think that communication is a major factor when it comes to learning. Technology only makes communicating easier between teachers, students and parents. When all three party's know what is expected of them everyone will be able to perform at a high level in the classroom. So I agree that there are not many downsides to technology in the classroom.
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