Twitter in the classroom is not something I would have thought to try but I found many useful ideas on Sonja Cole’s article, 25 ways to Teach with Twitter. The majority of suggestions were collaboration tools for connecting teachers with ideas and lesson plans for successful classrooms. Teachers need to use technology and the amazing communication that can be accomplished to broaden our thinking. Our students are taught to think outside the box and we encourage them to search out new ideas through research and we need to follow our own advice! Twitter is limited in word length but it is quick and simple to use. A sample question could ask ‘Does anyone have a great smart board lesson for 2nd graders?’. The answers may be diverse and can include input from a wide range of viewers or could be narrowed down into an educational tribe. The tribes help organize the people into groups based on interest.
Interactive whiteboards are an incredible education tool. The ability to create a presentation, save it and use it for a future class session makes traditional whiteboards obsolete. Digital story telling, working on math problems in whole class discussion, and having access to interactive Internet sites for enhancing lesson presentations are many of the ways that interactive whiteboards can be used in the classroom. With Promethean Boards, students can use the ‘clickers’ to answer formative assessment questions during a lesson and these devices can motivate students to participate who may have been too shy or anxious to commit to an answer in front of their peers. Overall all of the different kinds of interactive whiteboards can be used in the classroom to enhance the daily school day.
Pearson Education had a presentation of new innovative technology that is available for classrooms. Their goal is to provide digital and online education globally. ‘Pearson is revolutionizing schools with an: array of digital and online tools that include research-based content, personalized intervention, assessment for learning, data management and professional development solutions to set every child on an individual learning path to success in school’ (Pearson website). One of the example curriculum to purchase was 7-8th grade Biology were online experiments, dissections, and class blogs could allow students to share their observations.
Cole, Sonja. 25 ways to Teach with Twitter. 2011. Retrieved from:
http://www.techlearning.com/article/25-ways-to-teach-with-twitter-by-sonja-cole/46075
Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources Center. U.S. Department of Education Grant PT3. 2010. Retrieved from:
http://rmtc.fsdb.k12.fl.us/tutorials/whiteboards.html
Pearson Education. 2010. Retrieved from:
http://www.pearsoned.com/california/pearson-technology-for-california.pdf
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