Assistive technology, specifically, voice recognition programs have become the goal I set my heart on. There has been no progress toward my goal this week. My doctor has me confined to my home; he said that I am not to go to work until Monday. I cannot even explore how the program works on my own computer because I have no voice! So now what? I will explore problem-based learning and how social collaboration fits into it.
The next lesson in my unit will tie into wikis. I want to create a wiki for my students to use. Since they have never been exposed to this type of learning, I will create pages based on different types of energy. From there, the students will create the content to put on those pages. That’s all I have for this week…
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The wiki plan sounds like a great idea. I may borrow it and have my history students do something with that. I am sure that your students will have a lot of fun with it. Do not forget solar, wind, and thermal energies. :o)
Does working from home give you a new insight into how students might use technology to interact with ech other from a distance. I guess I've always thought of collaborative learning as something students do in small spaces, where they can still somewhat communicate through normal channels. But I see the day quickly coming where students won't even be in the same city - much less the same room.
The wiki plan is a great idea and gives the students the ability to keep working with each other even though they are no longer in class. I like the idea that you are bringing collaborative learning into your classroom.
Hope you get to feeling better.
Wind is the primary focus... Someone just built one wind farm near the school and there are several more scheduled to be built in and around the area.
Todd, the majority of my students do not have computers, let alone Internet access. I can see this becoming the future for much of America and when it does, we will be leaving many people behind.
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