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Simple ideas…

April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Sometimes I am pleasantly by ideas that teachers come up with, especially those teachers that you don’t expect to bring them forward.

Mr. Welch is a student teaching intern in one of our Grade 6 classes.  His cooperating teacher is a “more experienced” teacher that has not been as quick to embrace technology as some others in our school. 

Last week he came to me looking for a video camera and some advice.  His idea wasn’t new (I had done it many times before in my classes) but it was new to his team.  He was having a science class and wanted to do a demonstration / experiement on how to make a galaxy in a bowl…but he was concerned that not all his students would be able to see clearly.  He wanted to simply hook up a camera to a multimedia projector that he could use to provide a visual for his students.  It worked GREAT!

The neat thing about this is that it reinforced for me that the future of education is in good hands.  Even though our universities are, to a large extent, doing little to prepare new teachers for the 21st century, many of the early digital natives we are beginning to see enter the profession bring with them an interest and ability to bring digital literacy skills into their classrooms. 

This kind of new approach to using multimedia in the classroom can have immediate and significant impacts on a teaching team as awll…I am sure that his cooperating teacher will now also be more open after having seem the reception from students.

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