Wow, what a whirlwind time we had in those two short evenings! For this final post we will view Rigor, Relevance and Web 2.0 from our rear view mirrors. Please share your thoughts about the following:
If you were not using Web 2.0 tools prior to this class, what do you have to lose by giving a couple of them a try now?
And finally, how does the Rigor, Relevance Framework guide instructional design "OUT" of the lecture-recitation-practice trap teachers can get "stuck" in? How can your Web 2.0 project for this class move students from Quadrant A through Quadrant D?
We are very interested in what y'all are thinking at this point. Read the comments of your classmates and share your ideas about their thoughts too.
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I believe that more than anything, the Rigor Relevance Framework brings in the idea of teaching for mastery. Most of us have given up on the concept and decided that if the percentage that our class needs, grasps the concept long enough to answer the standardized test correctly, we have done the best that we could. But, have we? Quadrants C and D take the basic knowledge that we teach our kids and allows them to use what they've been exposed to and actually put it into action. I can remember when I found it very difficult to understand the idea of synthesization, which was a goal I was to shoot for with my class. I believe that Web 2.0 allows and engages synthesization. It's a chance at mastery!
The Web 2.0 information has stretched my thinking regarding Quadrants C and D by introducing ideas and processes that have forced me to analyze how and what I am teaching in the classroom. More importantly, it has given me a way to incorporate technology that my students "sneek" and use in the classroom everyday. Now, instead of fighting it, I can utilize it in my instruction. My students have been excited with just the idea of using the technology they like as part of the classroom instruction. They have already exhibited some of the Quadrant C and D skills by extending the ideas I have shared with them that I have learned in Web 2.0. I expect my project to be the launching pad for more indepth thinking and problem solving.
Since I received my teaching certification 11 years ago I've tried to implement technology in the classroom but availability and time management to develop and trouble shoot the activity has been a HUGE problem. So much time is taken to be in INVENTOR of creative work. But now, Web tools 2.0 has done much of the leg work for teachers. I have used Googl Docs and Tapped In for my chemistry class. I feel that I can move into my comfort zone for the 21st century classroom by showing the students how to use new information and where it applies to them in everyday life. I feel most teachers have been forced into Quadrants A and B
I have to say this video was completely true. As an educator in the 21 century we must learn to change and re-adjust our thinking and teaching to meet the needs of a technolgy based world. Our students are not being well prepared to think and analyize as they are going to need in the future we must change and allow our kids to do more than drill and practice and rely on rote memory to get through school.
It really may be true that you can teach an old dog new tricks! My eyes have been opened (by this class) to new technology "tricks" and I can see how educators must continue to learn to keep pace with our current students. As a counselor in a high school, I have opened a facebook account in order to understand the new order of cyper socializing.
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