Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ed Tech and Education

Teach/Model Responsibility

Explore/Professional Growth

Model Digital Tools


Design Innovative Lessons/Encourage Creativity



Above: A model of how to effectively teach 21st Century Learners.
As an educator I realize the importance of technology. In knowing that, the question I often ask myself is "how?" How do I maximize learning by using technology? In what ways should I use it? Obviously, a lot of research needs to be done on this topic.

I believe people learn in all different kinds of ways. Most effectively I believe people learn when they are motivated to learn. This can be for many reasons. People learn because of intrinsic motivation where they want to learn for the sake of learning or people can learn from a teacher that explains something in an interesting way. I think you have to be interested in something to really care about learning it.

Once interest is established, using a variety of methods to collect information is a great way to access what you want to learn. Multi Media, articles, audio/visual, are some ways that I found to be successful in my own life and I've seen produce success in those I teach.