Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Thoughts on Dr. Zhoa's podcast
What struck me most about Dr. Zhao’s podcast was the point he made that the United States is so far behind other countries. He compared our education system to a communist government. Schools definitely need to integrate technology more into the classroom. Dr. Zhao’s idea of visiting schools in other cultures is a great one. Financially districts probably can’t afford to physically send teachers to schools in other countries but with today’s technology there has to be another way. I wonder if it would be possible to visit other classrooms through the use of webcams. I know kids are very into the virtual world and if it were to be part of a class curriculum students would become more engaged. Another way to engage and motivate students I thought was on-line courses for high school students. I would be interested to see how Michigan uses those on-line course
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I like your idea of using webcams to remotely view other school environments. I think that it would be fairly easy to implement with the current technology we have at Hilton High School. We could have a tour of our facilities or examples of classroom teaching and learning.
This could even be posted on www.youtube.com or www.teachertube.com
Web cams could definitely enable virtual visits to other places, and pretty easily at that.
That would be an inexpensive way to see how things are done in other schools around the world (webcams) we can learn so much from other people. We no longer need to look into lesson plans from teachers in our country but we can in others around the world.
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