Tomorrow, I will be presenting at this year’s BCSSTA Conference on 21st Century Learning, and am planning to introduce my particular approaches to the use(s) of technology in the classroom with the above Prezi & access to the assembled terrain of my own, and my students’ emergent digital geography. I hope to frame the implementation of technology in the modern classroom as an opportunity to extend elements of communication and collaborative critical thinking education has always been pressed to provide its students.
But I don’t want it to be a conventional presentation so much as an opportunity to engage a specific community of educators in a conversation about establishing a digital presence that provides an authentic extension of the learning community. In short, I would like to create a digital record and extension of the conversation anyone who comes to my session wants to have.
That’s why and how I try to use technology in my class. Why wouldn’t I do it that way with my fellow educators?
I’ve set up a wiki intended to aggregate dialogue (and maybe bookmarks) our conversation through this Posterous blog, that you can submit your thoughts to if you want by emailing text, video, audio, links or the like to connectivemedia at posterous.com.
Hello Bryan, my name is Jonathan Giles, I attend the University of Alabama and I’m currently enrolled in Dr. Strange EDM 310 class.
I enjoyed reading your thoughts on social media in the classroom and also using it with fellow educators. The presentation I watched above your blog was really small and hard to read at times. I’m not sure if this was by design or not but regardless it was extremely well done and sharp. As a future teacher myself, I hope you convince those who matter to start moving more toward a technological enriched future in the classroom. I can’t wait to see what you do next!