How important is online content delivery or personal learning environments to your Action Research project?
As a sort of part b to my second cycle, students demonstrated the process of uploading images and videos to their classroom web pages. For the teachers involved in this cycle, this was a significant achievement and the first step in delivering content outside the traditional lecture method. During team and school wide meetings, I hear and see teachers sharing lessons they’ve created or other resources they’ve found online. I also hear about tricks and shortcuts for different computer applications or how to connect a peripheral device to the computer. In these moments, I smile quietly knowing most of the items shared came from my group of students. All of these skills and discussions are in and of themselves very small, but they are evidence of teacher confidence and technology integrations.
I remember the Internet as a set of text-based bulletin boards. Then came ASCII art, pictures, and videos, continually changing and leading to the tools now available in a LMO. Similarly, I think the process will be the same for many classroom teachers when it comes to creating an online learning environment from text to media to online learning.
You smile when you recognize progress in technology integration brought upon by your students, your students smile when they know they taught a “digital immigrant” teacher something new, and the teacher smiles after the new technology works in their classroom. How powerful you are to be in charge of new smiles! Your AR project successfully demonstrated a need and a practical solution, congratulations.
My AR project led to a similar conclusion, that kids are the best technology instructors working one on one with teachers. After the success of my AR Summer Technology Seminar, I was granted a Science and Technology Elective class. I have thirty Tech Toads in training. Their first clients were the immersion students. The Tech Toads taught the immersion kids how to use Google Translate and to create a Voki that can be translated. There were smiles across the room after that first Tech Toad session. Next up, the Tech Toads will seek out a teacher to train. Your club is a great vehicle of change that could turn into a valuable tech elective in the future.
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