Educators now have at their fingertips powerful new technology that they can utilize to enhance literacy. Unfortunately many teachers, eager to use the technology, force it into the lessons without properly planning its integration. As a result, the technology is emphasized to the detriment of the content and skills that the children ought to learn. In other words, the technology becomes an obstruction to the lesson or worse - completely prevents learning of the content and skills!.
Thus I was most pleased to read the article "Instructional Planning Activity Types as Vehicles for Curriculum-Based TPACK Development" which discussed this very problem and offered an approach that can prevent such a dreadful mistake. TPACK stands for Technology pedagogy and content knowledge. The approach to technological integration is to first decide on the objectives of the curriculum and the instructional strategies to be used and then consider which is the best technology tool to use in the delivery of the lesson. In this way there is a proper balance between content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and technological knowledge. In so doing, reading specialist can reap the real benefits of technology. In addition, the article entitled "K-6 Literacy Learning Activity Types" is a handy tool for quickly linking "Activity Type" to the examples of technology that can be used. The information presented in a table facilitates ease of use. There are 11 tables that span principal literacy areas and thus will be very helpful in tackling the Web 2.0 and Portfolio assignments.
Remember that learning as an activity allows room for mistakes and correction.So while I agree that some teachers may be using the technology with some hitches there is no problem with working it out together with the students.Some students will be more computer literate than the teachers so that the learning can take place both ways.The main thing is that learning is taking place rather than the teacher being reluctant because of insecurity in their computer competency.
ReplyDeleteSome students are indeed techno savvy when it comes to computers and teachers and students can learn together. However, I would like to emphasize that teachers should learn as much as possible about using the technology well as to optimize learning instead of letting the technology work against them because of poor usage.
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