Up to this point, I read 9 chapters of the required textbook for PIDP 3240, "Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning" and I am amazed how much technology has integrated in our education. The authour offer so many strategies and digital tools that I can utilize in my teaching career and at the same time engaging the students to love school. I am sure many of us can agree with that! The book lists many great analogies, perspectives, strategies, facts, educational websites that I might refer to, and really preparing us that digital learning sources is in demand and we have to embrace whether we like it or not ,or ready or not.
I am fortunate to be teaching at a massage therapy school that is evolving to digital educational sources to achieve the curriculum goals. The school has been around over 10 years and as of this month they are integrating Moodle which is a formatted online course for the very first time. And new set of first year students of this month will be the fortunate ones to experience Moodle. I am excited to hear how Moodle is working out for both students and instructors. Furthermore, in fall, the school plan to replace the binders that hold hundred pages of 13 modules over the 2 years of the program with a tablet. I think this is very exciting for a vocational college!
In terms using technology in class, in my class we do provide power point presentations of our lesson as well as anatomy. We also provide online videos for anatomy. There is of course 2 textbooks that have additional information on their own websites and students can access at their own convenience.
One student created a private Facebook group for us and I took some time to join as I was worry about professional boundaries. Eventually I accepted that my group is social-technology friendly people and merely want information on one page instead of CCing to every member on emails. Emails can be cumbersome when addressing to a larger group and I think Facebook is fantastic e-communication tool.
Integrating technology into the class setting is not as daunting as I thought it would be. I realized I am fairly immersed in social media such as blogs, instagram, twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest. However, I use these platforms for personal use not for education. I'm learning that I can find authentic sources from various social media and share with my students. There are other sources that I am not familiar such has podcasts which I will be experimenting some time soon. Also, I like to explore YouTube videos relating to anatomy and physiology.
I am very happy to be learning and applying the information from PIDP 3240.
Have a great techy day.
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