What is the general purpose and reasoning behind incorporating global projects, education, and collaboration into the classroom?
In my opinion, we do this because it adds to our classroom. It makes us more efficient teachers, and helps our students to be better prepared for the real world. Technology enhances our instruction by taking the focus of our instruction from theory to practice. Instead of my students reading a book about balance sheets and income statements, they get a computer and make their own. They get the opportunity to practice things they will do in the real world in a safe environment.
Global projects also allow us to bring up to date information into the classroom. If you think about the lag time between events and when they are in our textbooks (research papers take years, and then are selected for the book, then it is edited, published, distributed, and often multiple editions of the book are bought, schools use the books or years, etc.), the information isn't relevant when we present it to the students. There are global education initiatives happening where student use real relevant info and data to learn. And collaborating through technology allows them to start practicing what is actually occurring in the workforce.
I agree with you about preparing our students for the real world by teaching them how to use tech properly. I also like that you mention the tect books being out of date by the time the students recieve them! With technology the information they recieve is seconds new...brand spaking new ha! Nice post see you Tuesday
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of technology is that it is posted currently and with global occurrences, I agree, we do not need to read about it in an outdated text. We can be on twitter reading the feeds of real people who are living in the history. When students work together to accomplish tasks they hopefully will learn more from each other. The real world aspect of learning is so important for students of today to make connections! I agree!
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