About week 3:

In your discussion, I found the following emerging topics that worth further conversation among you and your peers and/or colleagues.

 

• Bridging the “digital gap”
• Focus on the “new literacy” and “informational text”
• Technology vs. classroom management control
• Flipped classroom
• How to use the limited resources based on the instructional decisions (ex. instructional grouping, working at home, using computers at the public library, remember that the 21st century practices should not be taken away from our students due to limited resources)

Technology (SmartBoard, or Interactive Whiteboard) commonly used in the schools, but teachers may not know how to use it. Research some interactive whiteboard lessons

• SmartBoard (Interactive whiteboard lessons):http://www.scholastic.com/smarttech/teachers.htm

iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad app for voice recognition: 

• ShowMe (see my sample ShowMe on Osmosis and Diffusion, create your own if you have iDevice and share with us). ShowMe allows you to build a flipped classroom easily. For similar purpose, if you'd like to create a short instructional tutorial, you can also try Jing (http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html) using desktop computer.
• Dragon Dictation Free