I decided to post my podcast onto Blogger. I created an account at www.podbean.com to host my videos, but since I have a blog I found it redundant to have two sources for podcasts. I think it would be more effective to post my podcasts into my blog instead of creating another source and location specific to podcasts. I think this is an example of how some of our technology merges and we need to choose the most effective way to use the technology versus using different web 2.0 tools individually.
This is a podcast created for my high school students about a reading contest that is currently taking place.
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I think it is totally necessary for us to change the way we think in relation to the way we work, teach, and learn. It is imperative that we as educators jump on board with technology! Being that we are teaching digital natives, we need to be able to provide them with education that is teaching them to think critically through the use technology. This will be required of them in the future.
I think change and technology is hard for some educators because they did not grow up in the technology era. Educators are also expected to teach a lot of material, and it can be daunting to create new lesson plans over new material using new technology. Unfortunately, we cannot allow a hard task to keep us from providing our students with the opportunity to think critically and prepare them for their future. We as educators have to remember what future we are preparing them for, it is different from what we were prepared for. Educators would be doing our youth an injustice to not adequately prepare them for the future they are going to encounter.
If I could wave a magic wand and change anything, I would make it possible for all of our campuses to have the technology needs available to them at all times to utilize technology for lessons and projects. In conjunction with having the available resources, I would also want teachers to desire to collaborate and create lessons that encompass technology.
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