Brainstorming

Assignment: Using your present subject area and grade-level, write a 5-10 page paper on using emerging technologies in the classroom. You are required to use at least two sources from the EBSCOhost’s ERIC database to complete the research for your paper as well as other resources. At least two peer-reviewed, full text sources are required. You may use some additional sources if needed. The paper will be graded according to the Formal Writing Assignment Scoring Rubric. For this course, the paper will be a collaborative effort, done with a partner assigned by the instructor, and done using some of the emerging technologies in the course. This includes using a collaborative Google Doc, a Wiki and iCyte/Zotero. Please refer to http://wilkes.edu/MediaFiles/ERICbasics.swf for an online tutorial on how to access ERIC.

Some more information: I sent an e-mail to get a better idea of what to do for the project and this was the reply.

There should be a unifying theme of some sort. (So it won't be two seperate papers just combined into one) The paper needs to be on some aspect or aspects of using emerging technology in the classroom. It can one specific thing like blogging, iPads, etc or it can cover multiple topics. It can discuss pros, cons, effectiveness, etc. It should cover what the research shows and both of your perspectives. Use your wiki to brainstorm some more based on my reply.

So if our content is Math and we both teach Special Education, then we can discuss how technology can be used in the classroom for that content by using iPads, blogging, etc. This will be a good start for the paper. Thanks

Ideas: Blogging in the math classroom - pros /cons Using a Wiki space in the classroom pros/cons Google docs in the classroom pros/cons

I am familiar with using a wikispace in the classroom, so I have some ideas for that (for instance, cons are not everyone has a computer at home and we don't always have access to them and our internet may not be working, pros are information is available everywhere including for absent students everyone is participating and collaborating together). I also have some ideas for blogging (cons-school has it blocked and everything with the wiki, pros-can use it in a cross-curricular aspect applying english and history and differentiation). Since I teach math, I will continue to put the mathematical application in if you wouldn't mind adding how this will effect speical education.

That's fine with me.. I can talk about the different diabilaites of special education and how there can be pros and cons for those disabilities.

Do we want to use multiple technologies for the paper like the wikis and the blogging or do we want to use only one technology for the paper? I think using multiple tools would be an interesting paper . I also agree that it would better to do multiple technologies. I think just for research purposes it will be harder to find enough resources with just one topic. I like the wikispaces and google (we can highlight all of google, then concentrate on google docs). If we need blogging then that can be a just in case. I feel like most schools have this blocked so I'm neverous focusing so much on that..

I agree the blogging sites are harder to get in school because they are blocked by the ditrict. I know when I use Google in school it is available which would be great for classes and students.