The first question involves the last "Key Trend" under the readings for week 5. This key trend suggests that technology has created more collaboration between departments on campuses. Do you feel that this is true for our campus? What about for the Elementary level? Does technology create collaboration between subjects or even grades?
A second thing that caught my attention was a statement about privacy concerns in one of the articles that I read. With all of the advances in technology and the encouragement for students to learn electronically, what implications could this have for our students and how can we avoid privacy issues?
I think collaboration of courses through technology is great. This is clearly prominate in our block I classes, however, I really think this is something that could expand not just between Education courses but other courses as well. This way, teachers have the knowledge of what students are doing in other classes and know of their workload. Also, students will have the ability to have more of a say on what that specific classes curriculum entails. Mostly this would would be successful in allowing teachers to collaborate on due dates, and tests. I think this would be a stress relief knowing you won't have loads of work all due on the same day.
ReplyDeleteE-learning is definatly a great example of how this works on our campus. We can very easily access our class pages, teachers and peers emails, and also assignments and schedules. I really think this is great for communication as well as organization.
As far as the elementary level, I'm not as familar with collaboration through technology. They do have computer reading/math programs where teachers are able to set the level at which that particular student is at. This is definatley important and helpful given the multi-range of learning with indiciduals in the classroom. I think forming something the parents can access could be very usful in keeping them informed of their childs success/needs.