Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged embedded-technology
When it all goes right
Nov 19th
Posted by Jeff Utecht in Random Thoughts
When technology all works, it can do some amazing things. Yes, there are hills and valleys to the use of technology, but when technology allows students to engage in the learning process and create some simply amazing projects….I still shake my head in awe when I see what happens when we can guide them in the process. When we get out of their way and allow them to learn and create on their own.
This VoiceThread is from our IB art class. The teacher has been doing some great things with art and technology. Her latest activity has students talking about More >
Embedding the tool is only the first part!
Sep 26th
Posted by Jeff Utecht in Random Thoughts
I had the comments from my last post on embedding technology running around in my head today as I walked by the 5th grade classrooms where the technology this year is as close to embedded as you can fine. Teachers have a laptop, the students are in a 1 laptop for every 2 student environment…every teacher and student has a blog, they’re learning about RSS and setting up readers. They are deep in conversation about information literacy skills. In fact one class is writing a report on the endangered Northwest Tree Octopus as a way to talk about verifying information.
As I was helping More >
I don’t want to integrate it, I want to embed it!
Sep 24th
Posted by Jeff Utecht in Random Thoughts
The word integrate gets on my nerves. Maybe I feel it’s been over used, or used in the wrong way when we talk about how we want technology to affect teaching and learning. What I want..is technology to be embedded into the classroom. Into the learning environment. I am tired of trying to integrate it into a process, a classroom, or a curriculum that was never made to integrate technology to begin with. No, what I want is to start at the very bottom and embed technology tools, skills, and standards into lessons, our classrooms, and our outcomes.
To integrate something More >
