Tuesday, April 12, 2016
ILP "Participation"- Lynda.com
The activity on Lynda that I participated in is called "Education Technology for Student Success." The lesson begins by telling how it is important that students first learn the basics of technology before they can continue with anything more difficult. This lesson particularly advocated the use of mobile devices. Students could take pictures of notes and annotate them, they could record the teacher for future viewing, or even scan QR codes that a teacher can put on Posters. The most interesting thing to me was the QR codes. I hadn't heard of them being used in an educational setting, but at some schools QR codes are being used. They are placed on posters in classes, and when a student scans it they will receive a video or .pdf file giving them more information about the posters topic. Another thing mentioned was using Google Earth to show students different historical sites. Apparently the historical sites actually have other images surrounding them providing more information about the site. All in all I'd say the lesson was a good way to learn both basic ways of using technology, and more unique ways of using technology.
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If Google lets you, I suggest trying to increase the size of the images you included so that we can see more of the notes. The tutorial sounds very interesting and very applicable for the social studies classroom that you plan to be teaching in the future. Did the slide show mention where teachers can purchase such posters? Do you know if the information that the QR code provides is updated at all? I'll be looking into this student attention grabber myself. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou chose an interesting topic for the lynda course! Having students use their mobile devices in class is a controverial issue. You might want to check out this article that dicusses this topic in depth, and outlines both pros and cons: http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/guides/edutopia-mobile-learning-guide.pdf
ReplyDeleteWhat was you stance on the issue before taking this lynda course? Did it change your opinion on using cell phones in classroom settings?