Technology is an integral
part of our lives, and that will not be changing anytime soon. Many teachers
are finding it hard to integrate the abundance of technology into their
classrooms. Some teachers would prefer to just teach the old fashioned way and
not worry about using technology at all while teaching. Well I say why not use
technology? There are so many useful resources with technology that teachers
can use to help students learn in a completely different way. Teachers can
utilize these resources, and easily share them with their students.
I recently stumbled upon a blog called The
Teaching Palette. The author of the blog is a Nationally Board Certified Art
Teacher and she works as an Apple educator. On her blog she posts about
different ways she can teach Art better, and most of the articles she has involves
using technology to teach. She also blogs about Apple product too, but I think
that is mainly because she works for Apple. You can read more about her here: http://theteachingpalette.com/
I am mentioning this Blog
because she had one article that I thought was really interesting. The article
was called “Padlet: Engage and get them Thinking.”. This article was about a
program called Padlet which allows you, as a teacher, to post a topic in a
board, and allow each of your students to respond to the topic. It is kind of
like a discussion forum, but it is more personalized. I think this is a great
tool to use because you can engage a discussion with your students, without the
pressure of being called on in class. A teacher could easily make this a
homework assignment, and I honestly think most students would want to participate
in it. If this does not work for your students, then I’m sure there is
something else that will. That is part of the great challenge of being a
teacher, finding out what works best for each of your students.
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