My biggest takeaway from the second week of this course was the article we read, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" by Marc Prensky. This article basically covered all of my reasons for choosing to do the MET program. I consider myself somewhere in between someone who learned technology later in life and someone who grew up with it. I remember life without a computer or cell phones, but my family got our first computer in elementary school so I've still had computers the majority of my life.
I just loved the discussion of students today having a different way of thinking and the suggestion that students do not really have short attention spans, they are just not being engaged. It is my goal as a teacher to engage my students as much as possible. I believe that is the only way learning is going to occur. I want to provide my students with ownership of their learning and meaningful experiences. They need to participate in hands on activities.
This is why systems such as Moodle are appealing to me. I do not believe effective teaching is standing in front of the room lecturing. Students should be exploring and actively participating in their learning, especially at a young age. Utilizing a management system such as this makes it easier on me as a teacher to do that in my classroom.
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