An article on Edudemic stated, "75% of students said that technology helped them achieve their academic goals, but only 66% felt prepared to use that needed technology when they entered college." This is just one of many studies that find students more excited about entering a classroom where technology is embraced than a classroom where the latest technology used is a book, paper, and pencil.Teachers are uniquely placed to demonstrate how to embrace and learn new technology. They can model to their students how to learn new technology because teachers have to learn how to use it before they can teach it. This allows students to see lifelong learning in action, not just talked about by their teachers. Teachers are a powerful role model. Let's take advantage of that and use it to encourage and excite our students about being in our classroom.
My "wondering" is, "How would student engagement and behavior change if teachers used more technology and web-based activities during instruction?"
Your wondering will make for an exciting and relevant action research project. I look forward to learning what you find. In fact, I became so excited about the idea of technology integration into every aspect of the school that I worked with our instructional technologist and the CEIC to create a fifth Goal for our campus plan that specifically addresses technology on the campus. We ended up with three Performance Objectives addressing integration in the classroom, professional development, and the exploration of emerging technologies.
ReplyDeleteWe will need to explore researches like the one you are proposing in order to move as effectively as possible toward the attainment of these objectives this year and future. Let me know what you learn!