EDCT203

I would love to have some of my lectures as a Podcast if it eliminated the need to actually drive into school. I guess it could act as a form of an online class.

This is certaintly a program that I am looking forward to.

This deals with how companies are dealing with employees commenting on social networking sites. 

This article is about a year old, but it is still very interesting because technology has progressed the ability for students with exceptionalities to participate within mainstream classrooms. Students who in the past were forced to only learn in specialized environments are now able to communicate and work in mainstream classes due to assistive technologies and other computer programs that fall under universal design allowing all types of students to learn from.

Sound a bit like science-fiction but this can be a tool that allows students better understand material by performing hands-on tasks to cement the content. Likely to be by higher class schools in the future.

Distant Learning is becoming increasing popular technological tool for educators. It allows them to reach more students and to diversify the classroom atmosphere.

GIves us all an idea on how much money is being put into educational technology. Also shows that even respectable organizations like NASA feel that technology can enhance the learning experience.

Twitter is great for practicing summarization, but Twitter applications also add potential for using Twitter in many more ways in the classroom. 

Chilling and interesting are the two words I would describe this article. This article discusses the benefits of having robots assist the teacher. The robots would be very life-life and interactive, being able to detect and response in the right emotions. There is already a study with a robot interacting with 18-to-24 months old kids. That robot only costs 500 dollars to manufacture. Looks like we could be out of a job in a few years' time...haha.

This article supports my opinion in several ways, I strongly believe in interactive whiteboards aka Smartboards and introducing netbooks and laptops into the education system. I do believe that schools need to buy netbooks for the students and use them like textbooks, you receive it and you keep it in good shape and return it at the end of the year. This would help close the social status gap and equalize opportunities for all students.

I like the idea of podcasting mainly because it has been tested and it is helping the students to learn and retain information better than they did before they had podcasting.

One of the most interesting articles I've read. This article basically talks about applying podcasts in science classrooms. Podcasts can be compared to Youtube, students are able to hold onto the podcasts of teachers' lectures and they can refer to that in the future for aid. Teachers noticed a significant gain in students' grades using podcasts. Also, when podcasts are used, it can be exchanged among schools and universities so there is a rich seam of information in podcasts.