David Black posted on September 29, 2009 22:03
My keyboard has been silent. My attention has been elsewhere. My voice has been quiet. Yet, it is time to get back to blogging.
It is time to blog once again not for you, dear reader (although I do hope you benefit from my thoughts), but for me. You see, I need to blog to build a daily discipline for my own learning and professional development. If I blog I feel as if I have a responsibility to share something of value with each of you, even if there is only one reader out there. If I am responsible for helping someone else along in their journey as an educator then I need to invest the time necessary to grow myself so I have something of value to share. So I'm back to blogging.
I'm also back to blogging since there is so much that interests me and there is so much to explore. Lately I have been exploring iPod and iPhone apps, pondering how these tools might be used in education. The following video piqued my interest and fits with some of the thoughts I've been having about these devices as tools for education:
How could these devices change the classroom? What empowerment for students might occur? The possibilities are both exciting and challenging.
Of course, there will be those schools, administrators, and teachers who will be concerned about controlling the devices in the classroom and during the school day. Opening the door for such devices in education is a different model, so I can understand the concern. There would also be a lot of professional development needed to help educators design engaging curricular activities when utilizing these applications. Yet I would love to be in a position to further explore how we can use the tools which God has given us for the education of his children.
What are your thoughts about these devices in education? Share a comment to this post and let the conversation begin!