Our classrooms and our students are ever changing
in this fast-paced world. With all of the new technology available to us on a
daily basis it is no surprise that students are coming into our classrooms with more tech savvy skills each year. Sometimes, I am the student and they are the
teacher ;) As teachers, we need to keep up through researching and our PNL as
well as taking time with these devices. I know we don't have the time to become
fluent in everything but looking at these “I Can” Statements gives
me the confidence I need to “keep up with the times.”
Having enough
devices so that my students can work on their own is another barrier I face as a teacher. I was searching online
earlier and stumbled upon this amazing blog! It discussed different avenues you
can take when you are not 1:1 in the classroom.
The following is a link to the blog: http://go.learningpod.com/blog/not-enough-tablets-to-go-around-the-classroom
Another barrier that I face is having enough time for each technology advancement. When I reflected on the time
that I spent trouble-shooting, looking at ideas, becoming confused at different
technology apps, I was frustrated. Looking on pinterest I found an awesome
website that described the ways you can use a variety of apps and web-based
apps.
The last barrier face would have to be time for my students to use the devices. Reading
a blog about technology management has helped me to understand how to effectively
use our time in the classroom. Creating shortcuts to frequently visited sites
will greatly help my kiddos as well as cut down the time for searching
different topics and the students becoming confused because they didn’t/did
spell the word correctly. Also using dropbox instead of students sending you an
email to your school account. It is better organized and not as confusing. I
linked the website so that you can browse around as well :)
I think it is great that you searched for solutions to your barriers! The LearningPod blog is great, I appreciate that many of the statements are research based. You have done an awesome job of sharing your resources in this post. Be sure to tweet out some of these.
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