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Facilitate & Inspire Student Learning & Creativity… It is up to the teachers to help their students think creatively. After all, they are the ones that are inspiring our future. Our future is becoming dependent on the advancement of technology; how do teachers work around that? Instead of working around it, let’s instead facilitate and inspire our students to work with it, to use their creative minds and learn from it. The technology advancements are there to help us become better teachers to better inspire our students to learn, it also helps start the experiences our students will need in their future. It all starts with you. To better inspire our students with the use of technology we first have to be more familiar with it, and develop the talents needed to become more efficient. In some cases, there are some lessons that thrive on face to face, country to country- meaning that teachers from across the world will connect from classroom to classroom, making virtual environments for their students(Kosanovich). This allows students to have experiences that were never possible before. Not only that but it gives “them the tools to maximize their understanding and knowledge of other places, just as it says in the State Standards”(Gaudette). The design is to develop a digital age for the future of your students. Now keep in mind that we can’t expect our students to learn about technology in the way we desire without learning ourselves. The more familiar we become with the advancing world of technology, the better prepared we will be to teach those skills to our students. Another way to inspire that creativity with technology is to allow the students to work on their own. By working on their own I mean it would be useful to have iPads in the classroom filled with interactive learning apps. That would give them the opportunity to play educational games based on what you taught them. This could also allow you to assess your students at their own finger tips. Can you imagine the advancement students would have with technology? The ratings for the new generation would be well known for inspiration that’s for sure. For student inspiration collected in the classroom, you can bet that student achievement would be based on the use of a SMART board. The SMART board helps all the students be engaged and involved in the lesson. Which gives them many opportunities to be creative as they come up to the board and answer the questions. It also allows teachers to equally distribute the work to every student. So culturally speaking, no one would be divided nor left out. Now of course what technology you put in your classroom all depends on the age level of your students. Even then, we live in a developing world of technology, in one way or another it will be integrated into your classroom. Again, as a teacher, we need to become more familiar with the different types of technology that is allowed in a classroom. It can be so promoting and helpful and will allow your students to grow and develop creativity, which is exactly what you want. “Technology is what supports existing educational practices”, it was made for more than one reason, and one of those reasons was to facilitate the learning of others and to inspire creative minds to live in the “future”(Ohler, 50). We are the future, and we are also the teachers, what you learn and teach your students will inspire them for the rest of their lives. 1. Kosanovich, L. M. (n.d.). Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity - Lauren Michelle Kosanovich. Retrieved March 02, 2017, from https://sites.google.com/site/laurenmichellekosanovich/intern ational-scoiety-for-technology-in-educationstandards/facilitate-and-inspire-student-learning-andcreativity 2. Gaudette, G. (2014, October 09). Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Retrieved March 02, 2017, from https://prezi.com/-j3ljg_bl7gb/facilitate-and-inspirestudent-learning-and-creativity/ 3. Ohler, J. (2013). Digital storytelling in the classroom: new media pathways to literacy. Thousand Oaks: Corwin
From then to now Unlocking Current Technology Trends From Text Books to Tablets. And just like that, technology is integrated into education. And education is evolving into a whole new world. A world where just as you master one thing, another new thing arises. I don’t know about you, but when I was in elementary school my teacher would roll out the old projector and say “Spelling time!”. Now days, classrooms just have SMART boards and there isn’t a projector in sight. It makes me sound old when I talk about the “other” technology. But really, let’s take a deeper look into what technology has contributed towards for education. In the past 5 years, technology has made an advance from classroom to classroom. “Each year since 2004, a new Horizon Report has been released. Each edition attempts to forecast the most promising technologies likely to [have] impact on education”(New Tech Trends). Which explains why we went from projectors to SMART boards. The advancements are to create a world full of welldeveloped people. Meaning that as time goes on, and technology continues to develop, we can rely on the fact that everything will always be at our own fingertips. As we continue to look forward to all the trendy technology, we begin to notice that if gives students the opportunity for “deeper learning”. Without technology, we weren’t really able to beyond the classroom for learning. Before we would open a text book and learn about a city far away, now teachers are able to set up a “global collaboration”. This allows for students to actually learn from students across the world. How cool is that. “Teachers are asking students to use technology to access and synthesize information in the service of finding solutions to multifaceted, complex problems they might encounter in the real world”(Schwartz). The search of the world is literally at the touch of a screen, and it has provided teachers with resources they need to help build virtual realities with their students. It is simply amazing how text books were everything we knew, and now those same texts are put in a more advanced setting and instead of breaking our backs carrying them around, we can now simply put them in our pockets. Any child in today’s generation will ask to see your phone to play a game. Or in other words, they are bored and you aren’t entertaining them enough so the next “go to thing” is technology. Because technology has grown so huge in today’s generation, it is part of our everyday life. As an educator in order to keep today’s generation engaged in a lesson Technology is the Key! “Today’s students have grown up with all this technology, so schools must change with the times and adapt to the way students learn best”(Networks). This explains why technology trends have changed in the last five years, even ten years; We have a bunch of “tech-savvy” students and the only way to keep them in check is to hand them something they are familiar with. It makes sense. If technology is changing and affecting the new generation, then we have to adapt to the new trend by adding “laptops, smartphones, and iPads in the classroom” (Networks). From then to now, we can officially say that technology has made and will make a lasting impression on the face of education. 1. Schwartz, K. (2017). What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years. Retrieved March 04, 2017, from https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/06/29/what-educationtechnology-could-look-like-over-the-next-five-years/ 2. New technology trends in education: Seven years of forecasts and convergence. (2017). Retrieved March 04, 2017, from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S03601315110 00844 3. Networks, S. E. (2017). 5 Ways Technology in the Classroom is Changing Education. Retrieved March 04, 2017, from http://www.securedgenetworks.com/blog/5-Ways-Technologyin-the-Classroom-is-Changing-Education
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