Social Media Bullying Awareness
Great poster-making activity from the BullyingUK website. Excellent tools & resources here to share a positive message against cyber bullying with your students.
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Tech Savvy Students Mentor Teachers
How much technology should be in K-12 classrooms?
This was today’s topic on CBC Radio One’s Get Talking this afternoon. Much of this discussion evolved from the Ontario Public School Board Association discussion paper What If?: Technology in the 21st Century Classroom. This paper reviewed how technology can support and contribute to learning in school. Many callers shared concerns and questions about the increase of technology in the classroom, with respects to relevance, budget priorities, curriculum needs and instructor knowledge of resources.
Not all listeners approached the topic from a negative perspective. It was apparent that technology is thought to be an excellent instructional tool. One current example is the “adopt-a-teacher” program at Don Mills Collegiate in the GTA. This program supports the idea of how to utilize knowledge from the digital natives – the students. Students are able to share their experience with various emerging technologies that can incorporate into the learning experience.
Walls are coming down between teacher and learner. The idea of fostering learning from both ends brings learning communities to the forefront of education.
Students find the classroom more ‘relevant’ when they have opportunities to interact with real world experiences and practical learning means. Lets engage our students in the entire learning process.
Social Networks Are for the Kids.
Silly adults. Social networks are for kids (too)!
Although my interests lie in technology use in higher education, I stumbled upon an interesting article, Child-friendly social networking tools, in the eSchool News.
Many child-friendly applications have been created for students in the K-12 realm, which include various security and privacy features to keep educators at ease. These arenas allow schools to develop online learning communities within their classroom, schools and/or school districts.
The article describes more specifics about the following tools:
I think an introduction to these types of technologies in school at an early age is excellent. This provides a great classroom model and hands-on experience for the instruction with various tools, i.e. wikis, blogs, and more! Students learn to design, create, share and interact with their peers online for learning.
Most students in higher education are VERY aware of social networking tools. The only issue is that many college students would not think to utilize these online technologies to support learning and academic success (unless their current faculty is ‘hip’ to the technology jive). To best support academic learning in the later years, instructors need to use these online resources during formative, educational years.
