MP2 Ten Top Tips for teaching with new media
October 11, 2010
It is not often in academe that you will find a succinct break down of anything. The Ten Top Tips for Teaching with New Media (2009-2010) provides just that. We have yet to reach all the technology tools that many of your students want to learn on. Yet inventions like the I-pad with it small size and multifunctional design is coming close. Even so, many things can be done today to enrich learning in the classroom with technology.
The first idea helps to improve communication and get everyone involved. The second lets your students help you with technology and some tools to help you find out who knows what. Next, number three, helps the student manage their own learning with some online tools. The world is more connected than ever and collaborators can be found around the world to help students with projects with advice from the fourth tip. The budget is getting tighter every year; Ten Top Tips for teaching with new media, tip 5 includes how to ‘take advantage of online tools and community resources to find what you need-for nothing’. Let an exciting tool turn vocabulary into fun with tip number 6. Today’s workplace requires teamwork more than ever, let tip 7 help you teach students this important skill. Tip 8 gets even the shy kid in the back a chance to speak up. A picture is worth a thousand words and students are more visual than ever, learn how to make it visual, with tip 9. The teachers also need help, with the last tip; number 10 shows how to get help from other teachers.
Combining the ten tips with access to computers can help motivate and improve learning. With wireless, easy to use, one-to-one computers with internet access for student these tips are great ideas to help bring your class room up to date. Hopefully I have made you interested in learning more, so head over to Edutopia and the Ten Top Tips at http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/Edutopia-10-top-tips-for-teaching-with-new-media.pdf and try out some of their ideas.
References:
Boss, Suzie. The Ten Top Tips for Teaching with New Media. 2010. Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/Edutopia-10-top-tips-for-teaching-with-new-media.pdf
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Education, NetDay. Visions 2020.2 Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies. 2004. Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/listed/os/technolgy/plan/2004/site/documents/visions_20202.pdf
