This is a great idea to make science learning even more realistic for students. As they are hearing about interesting patterns of weather, the class can log in to Google Earth to see the pattern (using the overlay feature to peal it apart).
In 2011 the In Touch Blog (Instructional Technology Blogger Steven Anderson from Winston-Salem in Forsyth County) shared a lesson idea to track and view a hurricane in real time via Google Earth. What a wonderful example of adding value to a lesson on weather and science as well as extending it to everyday life.
This is a great idea to make science learning even more realistic for students. As they are hearing about interesting patterns of weather, the class can log in to Google Earth to see the pattern (using the overlay feature to peal it apart).
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In 1994 over a decade of research was shared from the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) study. The results of the research starting in the mid 1980s and lasting through the early 1990s was both surprising and still relevant to what we should be doing today with technology in learning.
Context: The Apple Classroom of Tomorrow study began in 1985, when 5 public school districts were giving personal computers for all their students and teachers, to use both in school and at home. Predicted Outcomes (what the researchers THOUGHT would happen):
Unexpected ACTUAL Outcomes:
Notice the emphasis on successful student outcomes coming from higher-order cognitive thinking (over drill and practice) as well as co-use and joint-engagement in the tool (over individualized use). References: Dwyer, D. (1994). Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow and What we Have Learned. Educational Leadership. ASCD. Retrieved Online: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr94/vol51/num07/Apple-Classrooms-of-Tomorrow@-What-We've-Learned.aspx |
AuthorLiz Kolb is a clinical associate professor of education technologies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She works with over 150 preservice teachers every year on integrating technology into K-12 teaching. Categories
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