Twitter--Popular way to teach

There are many different kinds of free technologies you can use in your teaching. Today, I want to introduce a excellent tools for you -- Twitter!

    Here's an article which can teach you How to use Twitter for Social Learning. It contains specific methods you can use in Twitter, for example, how to get started, how to creat your own twitter group, and how to use Twitter in lectures, classes and workshops. I can use this website to make students get understood of every steps clearly and impressively. This is a good and excellent guide absolutely.

    Moreover, you can also find some Best Individual Twitters as useful sources. There are some selected best twitters for different categories. And they are ranked alphabetically. You can choose those which are you think the most useful twitters conveniently and quickly. As a teacher, I can give these choices to students so that they can get the knowledge on their interestes in a specific area.

Learning with Computers

  Yahoo Group is a very interesting and useful group and tool, especially which is named learning with computers. There we can meet with different kinds of teachers who teach different subjects and courses. And they all there to learn how to use computers more effecitively as a teaching tools. It's like a discussion board that every teacher can ask and answer questions of other teachers and discuss topics or subjects together. Through these ways, we can learn much more experiences and teaching tips with just sitting in front of a computer. I think it can be a powerful knowledge base for my future teaching.

A Learner is like...

For me, the learner is like a refractor. The learner recieves some knowledge from teacher, and then reflects some different responses.

 

 At this time and age, technologies are changing rapidly and developing forward. As teachers, we should be aware of the influences of modern technology and learning tools sensitively, in order to act as a compass of knowledge for students. It’s a teacher who always leads the non-direction students understand their right purpose and direction of learning and light up their ways of learning. As George Siemens mentioned in the article -- Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, “The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.” And we can also share and learn more teaching experiences from other teachers with technological tools.

Also, George Siemens said in the video the Changing Nature of Knowledge that, “The learners themselves, the connections they form with each other, the connections they form with databases, with other sources of knowledge, is really a primary point of learning”, which means, “The network becomes the learning, the network the learners create.” Because of the changing knowledge and information, students will meet more challenge when they learn with technological tools such as computers. At this time, teachers should be a compass to connect students with learning, and in the meantime, connect different students with matching models and styles. In order to do this, teachers need to understand students capability and characteristics to help them and make right connections.

One of My Favourite Blogs

     Google Reader is really helpful for teachers and students, and saving much more time. Once we add blogs addresses we can see all the new posting in the Google Reader at the same time. And we can see these your added blogs as soon as they update.

    This is one of the interesting posts I found from Google Reader. It's from one blog named Free Technology for Teachers. In this blog, we can find many useful technology we can use in teaching without fees.

    Vocabulary.com- Extensive Lists of Vocabulary Practice Activities is for practicing the vocabulary. I think almost the learning of vocabulary is so important for students. So, to activate the student to learn and memorize vocabulary will be a crucial assignment for both teachers and students. This blog may help you and provide some resources..

      

Educational Change Challenge

Education change challenge

I strongly agree about this video says: "Teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture. You have no credibility if you are not where they are."

A good teacher should always think about what students think, what students want, and what students need. As the Cisco Systems said, "Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality". With the changing and developing of the web and technology, we teachers should not only consider more about the tools and technology we use in the class, but also explore the most effective ways of teaching, always depending on students.