Example of a teacher using wikis, blogs, etc. with students. 5 minutes. Google docs. Literacy: she shouldn't have to teach terms, they should look them up. Addresses: do I need to know everything as a teacher? Also accessibility in a rural school. Shows disconnected classrooms collaborating together on reports and a wiki.
The use of this interactive wireless technology is ideal for stimulating student involvement using both interactive whiteboards and for one computer classrooms.
I stumbled on this article and thought it was very interesting. I think it's important to keep these things in mind when bringing technology into the classroom, not to discourage you from doing it, but to help you navigate through the problems that may come from it.
Student questions and questioning become a major focus of classroom activity as teachers demonstrate and then require effective searching, prospecting, gathering and interpretation techniques while students use the tools and information to explore solutions to contemporary issues.
As many of you may have discovered, I also found that many of my previous colleagues have little use for technology for teaching.
They are mired in excuses such as using technology is cheating, students learn best through lecture, the stresses of NCLB makes it too difficult to do anything but have students memorize facts to pass the tests, etc.
Wiki pages are always a work in progress. The wiki is like a dynamic online science classroom which continually grows and changes.
Applications for the use of Wikis in science classrooms is only limited by the creativeness of the teacher in support science teaching and student earning.
Wikis are the most popular Web 2.0 tool being used in science and math classrooms. Based on a survey of readers - 43 percent use them to support their teaching and student learning.
A Wiki is appealing, encourages participation, supports collaboration, and promotes interaction by students who love to use technology.
By the way - this includes most students today!
This site gives advice on using Nintendo Wii to teach different physical fitness curriculum. Not helpful for my content area, but very interesting way to use this technology in an educational way.