Welcome to my first response blog post. When on twitter I found this article written by Kain Young. I found this article in twitter when I searched tech #classroom #education.
I decided to look at this article because the title caught
my eye. Through my own experiences and
my classes at Stockton I know that creativity isn’t always a priority in
education which hinders some student’s ability to learn. Not only did this article promote creativity
but how to inspire it with technology.
The article lists these six unique ways to increase
creativity in the classroom with technology which are as follows:
- Screencast Tutorial
Create an activity that
students can do on a computer such as everyday class work to presentations of
projects.
- Stop Motion Animation
Easily made and gives an
illustration to a lesson. This is
helpful in science class when topics may be intricate and difficult to
understand when it is just words.
- Video stories
Another way to bring illustration to words. This would be good in history where someone
speaks about a battle images and paintings are display on screen to engage readers.
- Trading Cards
As a project have students make cards that resemble that of
baseball cards. A picture is accompanied
by facts about the person. A good project
to learn about people and a good way to study for whenever the test comes
around.
- Infographic
Used to accompany data such as graphs and charts. Great to give meaning to information found in
a lab or statistical survey.
- 3D Models
Create small sculptures of what you are learning.
All these activities
can be done on a Chromebook and the article lists site of where to do each activity.
I really enjoyed this article and agreed with its message. I liked how the different ways to improve creativity with technology could be done by both teacher and student. Teachers could incorporate these activities into their lessons for students to do and observe. This would also help students go back and remember what they have learned for when it comes time to take tests. I also think that it is important that as schools adopt more technology, they do it in a way that engages the students. Throughout my time at Stockton I have learned of the theory of multiple intelligences and how in our schools not all the students reach their full potential due to not being exposed a style of teaching that engages their brain best. Technology can easily resolve this problem by bringing in new ways to help and reach students. I think that this article does a good job of helping give ideas of how to use technology in the best way possible to engage students.
Here is a link to the article
Here is a link to post on twitter