What a blog strange trip it's been - 2 views
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Learning how to use Prezi proficiently could easily take multiple days of lessons. Therefore the students would need to spend a good amount of time just learning about the tool before using it to present other curricular topics. With the time crunch in schools today this could end Prezi’s life in a classroom before it begins.
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Douglas Gimbar on 01 Oct 09I haven't checked out the site yet, but it sounds like an amazing tool one can use either in or out of the classroom. Your point about time however is very interesting. We are under so much pressure as teachers to prepare our students for PSSAs that one of the biggest questions we have is do we have enough time to try new stuff, even if the new material is pushing 21st century education.
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Of course, the more frustrated I got the less I wanted to try to learn about how Prezi worked. I was that student that got disillusioned with what I was learning somewhere along way, and decided I wasn’t that interested in learning that “something” anymore.
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I realized that I, like most students today, have been sucked into the world of instant gratification.
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