Instructional strategies are changing for the better and it
is a good thing. The old education strategy
of memorize by wrote is giving way to strategies that include all styles of learners. The importance of this cannot be
overstated. According to authors’s of Instructional Technology and Media for
Learning, Sharon E. Smaldino, Deborah L. Lowther, and James D. Russell, Teachers
must be prepared to teach student who come to them learning through hand on
means and desires to learn in their own way.
They go on to suggest that because information grows exponentially
students must be taught how to retrieve information not memorize by wrote in
order to recall later. An example of these new realities are those help student
evaluate information for accuracy and bios.
Essentially student must be able to find information weigh its sources
and understand motivations. Students are
now entering school with technology background that surpasses their
instructors. Lessons must change to fit these
student’s needs. Frequently they know
how to use the technology but do not know how to maximize its use to their
advantage. The implementation of strategies must consider this. Instead of disregarding
technology as a fad, it must be put to use.
With many students familiar with social networking sites, instructors
would be wise to adapt this technology to their own use. I have already started using programs and
techniques that have at their core communication. I have incorporated the delivery of lessons
via Edmodo, and use applications like Wikispaces, Blogger, and schoology. I
also plan on requiring students to use online portfolio’s. These applications offer students twenty first
century mechanisms that allow for collaboration, team building, and project
based learning that will be more and more important to our students during higher education and beyond.
Reference:
Smaldino
S., Lowther D., and Russell, J.(2012), Instructional
Technology and Media for Learning, Allyn & Bacon by Pearson Education, Inc.
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